8 Responses to “Design by numbers”

1. Nathan Pitman says:

   10 February 2006 at 17:02

   Becuase everything else is already registered. We only have num­bers left…
2. Nathan Pitman says:

   10 February 2006 at 17:02

   And yes, I know I mis­pelt ‘Because’. :)
3. Stuart Frisby says:

   10 February 2006 at 17:02

   I was 36 degrees long before 37 sig­nals, and I guess a lot of the oth­ers. In 1997ish I ran a music site, named after my favour­ite song at the time, 36 Degrees by placebo. The web­site went away, the name stuck.
4. برامج says:

   11 February 2006 at 02:02

   nowadays, you cant find a use­ful name for your web­site without using numbers!
5. Jesse Bennett-Chamberlain says:

   12 February 2006 at 01:02

   Funny thing was, I named my busi­ness 31Three, registered it with the gov­ern­ment, and then went to register the domain name. When I did, I found that it was already registered! I had to register 31threedesign.com until the other owner let theirs run out.
6. AkaXakA says:

   12 February 2006 at 22:02

   Thanks for all the stor­ies behind the names — it’s quite inter­est­ing read­ing how your sites got their names.
7. Drew McLellan says:

   14 February 2006 at 12:02

   I picked 24ways fully con­scious of the num­bers trend. The main reason, how­ever, was that I wanted a name that indic­ated the 24 art­icles in 24 days theme without par­tic­u­larly men­tion­ing advent or Christmas.

   I tried to be sens­it­ive to the fact that Christmas is not a uni­ver­sal fest­ival, and that that shouldn’t pre­vent the site being use­ful to every­one. Also note the total lack of any Christmas theme to the design, bey­ond the red and white col­our scheme.

   I also didn’t want to limit myself just to the fest­ive sea­son in the future. So ‘24ways’ seemed to fit the bill.
8. Mathew Patterson says:

   15 February 2006 at 23:02

   I chose Signal 7 mostly because of the nice allit­er­a­tion. It doesn’t mean any­thing par­tic­u­larly, which leaves me a lot of flex­ib­il­ity in busi­ness direction.