Nicolò Volpato

RT @konigi: Ultimate Guide To Grid-Based Web Design http://bit.ly/35tZjm

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 15:36:00 -0800

RT @konigi: Ultimate Guide To Grid-Based Web Design http://bit.ly/35tZjm

now, what else can go wrong today? So far anything that could possibly go...

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 09:34:04 -0800

now, what else can go wrong today? So far anything that could possibly go wrong went wrong

RT @designsvn: We've been featured on @SmashingMag! Designing “Coming...

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 08:36:23 -0800

RT @designsvn: We've been featured on @SmashingMag! Designing “Coming Soon” Pages... http://bit.ly/2Wuu5f

sh.. last tweet was supposed to be a DM... #twitter #fail

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 03:46:00 -0800

sh.. last tweet was supposed to be a DM... #twitter #fail

http://www.fontshop.com/20years/ infographics + typography = wow!

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 02:50:16 -0800

http://www.fontshop.com/20years/ infographics + typography = wow!

at work - starting early today, lots of things to do

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 01:06:43 -0800

at work - starting early today, lots of things to do

“Showcase Of Beautiful Textured Web Designs... http://bit.ly/4lv5Hy” -...

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 14:50:18 -0800

“Showcase Of Beautiful Textured Web Designs... http://bit.ly/4lv5Hy” - via @designsvn — amazing stuff here, seriously

been disconnected all day, to stay focused on design work. Worked over 11...

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 12:56:45 -0800

been disconnected all day, to stay focused on design work. Worked over 11 hrs on a single mockup and finally sent it in for review. Weeeeee

RT @cssglobe: WordPress Visual Cheat Sheet http://bit.ly/ZDgPr

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 05:26:06 -0800

RT @cssglobe: WordPress Visual Cheat Sheet http://bit.ly/ZDgPr

RT @smashingmag: Usability tips for visualizing Ajax requests -...

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 05:26:06 -0800

RT @smashingmag: Usability tips for visualizing Ajax requests - http://bit.ly/4pJzbq (via @umutm)

managed to setup Coda to work @springloops SVN repositories. Coda was unable...

Sun, 01 Nov 2009 12:16:54 -0800

managed to setup Coda to work @springloops SVN repositories. Coda was unable to verify certificates. Fixed it using Terminal. #coda #fail

10 years of Jek2k.com http://bit.ly/43o1V9

Sat, 31 Oct 2009 12:44:56 -0700

10 years of Jek2k.com http://bit.ly/43o1V9

10 years designing websites

Sat, 31 Oct 2009 12:14:54 -0700

On October 30th, 1999 I was a 17-year-old high-school student with a passion for internet, graphics and design. On that day I published my very first website.

It was a personal website, it was called Jek Web Site, Jek being my nickname, and was hosted on a incredibly poor free service (Digilander, an italian service similar to Geocities). It was built with tables, crappy markup and required me months on work using Microsoft Frontpage 2000 (yes, it’s a shame, but I wasn’t a Mac user at that time yet). Essentially it was a 4-page website about my hobbies, favourite music and videogames. I made it mostly to play around with this new internet thing.

I already knew I liked it, but definitely had no idea it would have turned out to be my fulltime job a few years later.

One year later I decided to buy a domain for my website and wanted to get jek.com. However that domain name was already registered, so, as it was year 2000, I opted for jek2k.com. Since then the domain itself has become the name of my website.

During time it went from totally personal hobby/fun site to a music-related site to Flash site to portfolio site.
In 2006, as I already had a professional website and portfolio at gnvpartners.com, I decided to turn jek2k.com into a blog and jump on the WordPress bandwagon, which was emerging as one of the most talked-about blogging platforms.

Six months later, the WordPress customization of jek2k.com had been featured on pretty much all the CSS galleries and led me to designing WordPress themes for international clients and for Matt Mullenweg, WordPress in person.

And this is the story of jek2k.com. At least of these first 10 years…