Firstly some history over this URL. I am a compulsive collector. Someone who hoards practically everything including books, games, videos, tv episodes.. and definitely links to anything design related.

I went through my Gmail account that I have for my other site (http://www.newbtech.com) and discovered over 6000 of them. Yes.. 6000 links to pages that I kept just in case I need something in the future!

Searching through them has become more and more painful if not impossible. As a result I started looking for other means to allow me to categorize and collect pointers to articles that I deem collectable.

I purchased this domain name recently and put in a temporary theme to start playing with this. I have a LOT of excerpts ready to post – until i found that Google has blacklisted this domain

Now, even though this site is for me, it feels “dirty” to use a blacklisted domain name and I almost gave up.

I went through its history and saw it was the subject of many mailing lists and splogs etc.. which was bad..

I also went through an appraisal of the url via: http://www.urlappraisal.net/ and discovered the following:

Yes.. $19k appraisal. URL over 10 years old… Kinda made me want to get it unbanned. Simply so that it can be worth something later.

I put in a reconsideration to Google using their webmasters site and finally got a message saying that they have reconsidered the site. And I can finally see googlebot crawling over the site!!

Yay! I can finally start working on the site proper now!!

I subscribe to many sites for design related posts. This site simply saves me emailing tons of links to my email for further reading.

This site is manually populated by links that I believe is best saved for future reference. Its a personal site with a temporary theme at present. I hope to get a proper theme soon.

The aim is NOT to create yet another links site, nor is it to steal others contents. This site is simply here to give me a single place to look at content that would otherwise be spread all over the internet. I am not going to copy entire posts over.

Instead, this site will have a thumbnail of the linked post with a short excerpt that denotes the purpose of that post.

If any webmaster has any issues with this site, please feel free to contact me at dee@thedesignlist.com

thanks!