It’s the end of the year and everyone seems to be doing there tax returns and stat analysis.
So here are the Bluestudios stats for last year..

Quick Overview of my monthly visitors..

This is easier to visualise over the daily stats as my weekend stats drop down to around 120 visitors – daily visitors are around 160 mark but have spiked to 300 depending on the post.

In total BlueStudios reached 44,528 visits over the previous year where it only achieved 30,118.

Country breakdown

Breakdown of the top 10 countries::

1. United States – 11,403

2. United Kingdom – 4,545

3. India – 3,763

4. Germany – 1,826

5. Canada – 1,698

6. Australia – 1,652

7. Brazil – 1,263

8. Netherlands – 1,008

9. France – 1,005

10. Spain – 990

Mobile Devices

Not many mobile devices accessed Bluestudios but I haven’t put in the support or time to blog about much on mobile devices. But still interesting to see that there are users accessing the site with a handheld device

… ok, if you were curious to know what – Danger Hiptop is – I just found out it’s a T-Mobile Sidekick.. Strange name.

Top Referring websites::

blogs.oracle.com
Oracles blog aggregator

pmoskovi.wordpress.com
Peter Moskovitz Webcenter Blog

corecontentonly.com
Jason Stortz Oracle UCM Blog

itnewscast.com
Oracle aggregator

bexhuff.com
We all know of Bex – Never met in person though..

twitter.com
My blog gets featured on twitter?! wow.. I don’t tweet.. Maybe I should start..
There are people who tweet about bluestudios.. hmm I bet it is all bad stuff…

forums.oracle.com
I used to be one of the UCM guys helping others in the top 10 list of helpers but this last year I havent had the time and all efforts have been dedicated to Webcenter Spaces

cfour.fishbowlsolutions.com
Fishbowls Solutions – US based Oracle consulting company.
These guys are one of the best out there for providing unique and innovative solutions to there clients.. They’ve even helped me out. They also have Billy Cripe leading the way on E2.0.

theappslab.com
Adopted into Oracle – I always get so jealous of this team.. They get to do what I consider to be the fun stuff and branch out to create unique innovative apps / tools with a great UI. In the last year most of the blogging has been on mobile devices and I believe these guys are really pushing apps to the limit and I’m sure 2011 will be there year to impress us all.

club-oracle.com
Not sure how I got featured here – I think through their blogs and people linking back to me.

cmstechie.blogspot.com
A great blogger – and one you should follow he always has good advice to give.

fishbowlsolutions.com
Fishbowl Solutions Corporate site

contentoncontentmanagement.com
David Roes’ blog – I`m not sure whats happened with David he just seems to have stopped but he used to come out with great ideas and awesome components releasing them before Oracle do – i.e setting media server to using S3 as a data store for UCM. etc go check him out if you haven’t

hishamgalal.blogspot.com
Hisham Galals blog – Previously an Oracle Consultant now setup on his own but provides useful snippets of info that you may not be aware of.

andrealmar.wordpress.com
Andre Almar – Another ECM Blogger interesting articles and often ahead of the rest with access to the beta Oracle software.

oraclecommunity.net
I’m not part of this site but I’m getting the hits you may want to check them out and signup they seem to have a lot of Oracle members.

iandevlin.com
Web Guru like myself – Ian gets stuck into anything and everything a bit like myself keeping up with the latest web technologies.

webmonkeymagic.blogspot.com
Aussie based web monkey – always keep an eye on this blog for useful code snippets and ideas.

Top Keywords::

oracle wallpaper, oracle ucm 11g, jtds connection string, cleartype css, javascript ternary, aves engine, javascript webdav, ucm 11g, ucm components, john sim, jquery game engine, webcenter spaces cross site scripting, stellent components, webcenter ps3, webcenter vs sharepoint, ucm desktop integration suite.

Something I did when experimenting a couple years ago manipulating a logo in photoshop – hope you like

As part of my skin bundle (fingers crossed due to be officially released in a couple weeks) I will be including this easter egg . That’s right a Stark Industries WebCenter Spaces Skin!!

It’s still in its early conceptual design phase, so don`t expect this to be the final result..
But for you interested – click to see the larger design.. When your bored of your current skin flip over to this one

Before anyone comments – this may be just an image but from my experience of customising Spaces everything in this crazy over the top design can be converted to a Spaces skin..

I hope you guys enjoy this latest skin – as you can see its based on the original white design – I did back in December with a few slight alterations.

No I didn’t reskin firefox aswell, before anyone comments
Search for NASA Night Launch to download the firefox skin if you really like it..

Yes I know you are all asking for the extended trinidad css skin files for the design – in a couple of weeks fingers crossed I`ll have them complete and you`ll all be able to get them install them and alter them as you wish.

I’ll also be working on a complete new interface for Spaces approaching it from a Social networking view rather than a portal widget styled design that Spaces currently implements!!
So think facebook, linkedIn, MySpace’d version of Spaces for connecting and collaborating… I have my work cut out for me – but its going to be great fun….

##Update ##

I have thrown together a few widgets.. This is just a quick mockup and not a final representation..
And yes for all you designers obsessed with following the box model guidelines – I`m sorry.. But I prefer randomness than conforming to the rule..
And with this design it seems to actually work

That’s right its a WhatchaMCallIt…

Yes, yes wierd random blog post – I was playing with photoshop last night and randomly came up with the above.

I have no idea as of yet what I`m going to use it for – but I`m sure there is a project or two I can use this with and maybe  add it to a flashy app

Last month I was over at the Oracle offices in Reading; redeveloping the Avitek Sample Portal working to achieve a design that would be more appealing to future  clients and help show the potential of what could be done with WebCenter.

We all know that Oracle always provide powerful functionality over aesthetics and a  good interface design.
Those sales guys must have a pretty hard job selling Webcenter over Sharepoint – I mean if you weren’t technically minded and Microsoft first came in and did a demo of sharepoint and then Oracle came in and demo`d Webcenter – I know who I`d choose purely on looks.

Unfortunately, I don’t have any screens of the Avitek development, but here are a few of a reskin of spaces which I used as a bases for the Avitek development.

So whats next for me and Webcenter.. Well, I have been fortunate to be given a copy of  Webcenter 11g Handbook – so its been used for weekend and bed time reading; there’s alot of good guides in it. A full review on this will be coming soon, but it’s definitely got to be a book on your shelf.  During February, I’ve been taken on to assist migration of a Sharepoint project to Webcenter – this is going to be my first client project with Webcenter – its going to be good and cant wait to see the challenges that lie ahead of me.. Keep an eye out and I`ll let you know how it goes.

ok, the more I looked at the pMenu Skin I did a couple days ago the more I disliked it.

So I have created a new one..
Hopefully you`ll agree its a little bit better and not as amateuristic as the previous one

Here is a quick skin I threw together for the Linux PMenu – Pandora Console.

Another site begins its transformation..
This time RoadTrackRace.com

After spending 4 days playing with WebCenter 11g – 3 of which were spent at the Oracle Office in Reading – it was about time to start doing some actual development!
BTW – Thanks goes out to the trainers – Angelo Santagata & Flavius Sana – great job with reducing course down from 5 to 3 days last minute

So the first task – I have on my agenda will be to try to create a skin – Above you can see the quick concept I threw together.. The content page you can see will be a mashup of the BBC site – which I plan to try and use Ensemble to grab elements of the BBC and link in with my own little twitter custom concept design…

What do you guys think
I need to get some more icons sorted for the personal sidebar but its enough to get started with.

Read on if you want to see the Original skins supplied with 11g

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