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.