During the last five years I studied literature and linguistics, worked as webdesigner for an agency, gained a lot of good and some not so good experiences, travelled about 29 thousand miles, made the decision to resign from my job and started to work as freelance webdesigner which I didn’t regret and — I had one blog.

Five years ago I started this blog on August 19^th, 2004 as a personal blog with an entry about a lost laptop of my Korean friend Young. The focus shifted slowly and I covered mainly web 2.0 services. For about three years now the blog is about web development & webdesign with few exceptions.

Statistics of five funny years

• 2 domains (cordobo.de & cordobo.com)
• 3 webhosters
• 6 plugins (Akismet, All in One SEO Pack, Dean’s Permalinks Migration, Google XML Sitemaps, Twitter for WordPress & WP Super Cache)
• 7 MySQL databases
• 12 wordpress themes (some are available for free)
• 24 wordpress updates/upgrades
• visitors from 151 countries, mostly from the USA, Germany, China, Brazil, India, Australia, Canada & the U.K.
• 332 articles (+11 drafts)
• 1,952 comments, trackbacks and pingbacks
• 4,540 backlinks (says Google)
• 131,132 spams
  highest: July 2008 – 7,927 spams
  lowest: November 2006 – 35 spams
• 1,260,113 visitors
• 4,019,760 served pages
• 3,753 GB of Traffic
• and infinite hours spent with CSS, HTML, WordPress, Photoshop, Illustrator, Eclipse …

Today I celebrate my blogs fifth birthday with some new clothes – the actual theme used on Cordobo is called “Hardbound 2“. Its a clean theme optimized for fast rendering, features a lot of accessibility improvements with a strong focus on typography. Although there are still some minor issues, misalignments and unformatted areas here and there, I couldn’t resist any longer to change to the new theme.

Hope you liked it so far, for another term of five years.

This is the first theme I only made for you, my dear blog.

Cordobo “Freiraum” (Paperwall 2)

With a lot of delay, I’ll release my current theme for download next week.

PS: If you’re a friend of mine on flickr, you do have the chance, to see more screenshots ;)

As I mentioned before, I work on a new theme for Cordobo.

I will release Cordobo Paperwall, the current theme of Cordobo.com, under the GPL licence this weekend. It’s a custom theme for Scott’s excellent Sandbox theme, enriched with microformats, xfn and all the cool stuff your mama loves!

Why I do this?
Because I can ;) And it’s christmas time!
I’m working on a new theme for this blog and I put this theme up for adoption, trying to find “a second life” for it elsewhere on the net.

Why can’t I download it already.
I’ll release it this weekend, I need to fix up some things before you can easily install this theme on your blog.

Is it free?
Yes, totaly free like free in free beer. Cheerio!

Die Blogwende bei Cordobo im Herbst 2007.