BloxPress has created the first completely modular AJAX theme for a popular blog software. Their vision was to create a MyYahoo or NetVibes.com like interface with a blog backend. The user experience is superb with drag and drop modules, RSS, Flickr, etc... You can also add or delete as many modules as you like by simply clicking the Add / Remove Content link under the logo. Reseting to the original default settings is facilitated easily by clicking one link. Hopefully, at some point this type of web 2.0 / AJAX theme will be available for all of the major blogs API's.
It’s a nice idea but I don’t like the interface much. I hate the white and red gradients. Where’s the drag and drop? Why does it take so long to collapse a box? With a few improvements though I’m sure this will be quite popular.
Hi Adam,
Thanks for the comment. I couldn’t agree more about the overall style of the page. I posted this one because I liked what he was trying to do with the user interaction not the interface design. I too had some trouble finding the drag and drop. You have to click on the title itself in the header bar of the module and then drag. As for the box collapse, there are definitely some performance issues with the interaction. I would love to see someone make an interface like this that worked as fast as Netvibes.
Hi everyone.
Thanks for the comments. Now while looking at this old screencast it makes me wanna hide under my desk, but you must understand that i was using a library called script.aculo.us which was back then yet in an early stage. But Max put it in the right words. The style was awful but i was mainly pursuing my vision.
However.. this one is outdated and dumped. I am working on Bloxpress2 which uses the latest versions availble and gone through alot of optimizations. Maybe the expirience is now a little better for you all. 
The release of the first public stable will be within the next few days. Regards, K
Max Kiesler is an award-winning strategic designer and co-founder
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