We are Colorblind
I'm colorblind, I was born that way, my grandfather was also coloblind. One evening, when over for dinner dinner with them, I was helping my grandfather to set the table. He told me to get the plates with the green lining from the cubbord. I grabbed them and put them om the table. My grandmother overheard this from the other room and came in - quite confused - to ask where on earth I got the green plates from. Apparently the green plates where blue.
Years later, I decided to graduate on the subject of colorblindness on the web. For many people colorblindness is often a misunderstood and overlooked subject, especially on the web. I decided to create wearecolorblind.com, a website that provided solutions for common mistakes and problems the colorblind encountered.
The site got some good attention from sites like swissmiss, konigi and people like jason santa maria. I couldn't dedicate as much time to the site as I wanted to after my graduation though. Then disaster struck; a failure in the HDD of the server the site was on. I did have some early backups, but not recent enough to fully restore the site.
Loosing something like that sucks, but I wasn't too broken up about it. The site was created with the purpose of being a graduation product. It did solve some problems and provided some information, but not nearly enough. In the end I saw the server crash as an opportunity to start fresh, with a new plan.
Time was still sparse, but I kept working on the new version. I think I started over about 5 times, never really quite happy. At the start of attempt 6 I decided to keep it simple; I dropped the patterns and put more focus on articles and examples.
The goal is still the same: to inform and educate people that create not just for the web, but anyone that works with color. As of right now I'm finished with the design and am now writing the first content. I hope to relaunch in the very near future.