Update: Shoestring Branding has a good post on tumblelogs and personal blogging.

On February 2nd I reclaimed my name by launching what you see before you as CaseyPeters.com. As I mention in my bio, this site is constructed very similar to a tumblelog. The only difference is that it’s powered by WordPress.

A long time favorite designer of mine, Jeff Croft, recently launched the redesign of his personal site. And it’s perfect!

At first glance the brown theme overwhelmed me. Certain shades of the color are sometimes hard to pull off but after several seconds my eyes quickly adjusted to what I think is the best example of a personal website on the web.

Tumbleloging captures the life of the author(s) in an organized way so that it’s masterfully displayed for visitors. With his redesign, Jeff has taken blogging to whole new level by tumbling posts, tweets, links, events and photos.

Instead of hogging up database space with photo uploads, Jeff has tapped directly into the flickr API. He even brings over users and their comments. A very nice touch in my opinion. But the best photo layout feature of all is his Google-mapped location indicator.

His blog entry layouts are far from those found here. As you can see, I haven’t enabled comments but that’s not entirely my fault. Jeff did and his comment form is top-shelf caliber.

Another component usually not found on tumblelog’s are sidebars. Again, Jeff conquered the right side of his new site with an Authentic Jobs feed, his tour dates and my favorite, his long list of RSS feeds.

If you can’t tell by now, I absolutely love the new JeffCroft.com. The design is superb and the layout is revolutionary. Keep up the great work Mr. Croft.