Comments on: Reflections from a blog designer

By: Veronica

Veronica — Sun, 14 May 2006 12:19:33 +0000

These tips are right on target. Your blog is great.

I really agree with Bryan Casteel about the clutter on blogs. It’s ugly and unnecessary.

What made people think things like a “permalink” were a good idea in the first place?

By: Rachel

Rachel — Mon, 23 Jan 2006 22:48:08 +0000

Dennis I really like your blog’s design Maybe on your individual archive pages you could say a little bit about the blog or link to your (currently empty) colophon for people who want to know what you/the site’s all about.

By: Rachel

Rachel — Mon, 23 Jan 2006 20:51:39 +0000

redstar, thank your Dutch explorer Abel Tasman for the name hehe

By: Stephan L.

Stephan L. — Mon, 23 Jan 2006 18:42:16 +0000

‘PermanentLink’ , ‘Date’ , ‘Time’ , ‘Title’, ‘comments’ ,’powered by PHP, Apache,…’ , ‘Download firefox, thunderBird’,….
puah!
nice tips rachel.

By: Rachel

Rachel — Mon, 23 Jan 2006 06:59:02 +0000

Hi Jeff,

Let me know if you decide to come down here! As for those job areas, I’m not too sure but at the moment, unemployment is at an all-time low and there’s a skilled labour shortage here. An online job site you could have a look at is Netcheck or also the NZ Herald (search their classifieds)

By: Bryan Casteel

Bryan Casteel — Mon, 23 Jan 2006 04:24:14 +0000

Great points Rachel. My wife and I have been working hard on our Paris travel website and we have had to be very cognizant of these issues. We are using WordPress because of the increadible flexibility over a static site, but we have had to remove as much of the “blogspeak” out of the site as we can. Our visitors are not necessarily blog reading type people so we are trying to toe the line with the technology and the visitor.

One of the hardest things to get used to when starting to read blogs is the amazing clutter on the pages. So many sites are so busy that you can’t see the content. For blogs to really go mainstream (for say people in the 30’s and older), design is going to have to play a much bigger role. Keep up the great work.

By: Dennis Bullock

Dennis Bullock — Sun, 22 Jan 2006 23:05:34 +0000

I am not a fan of the sidebar for the exact reasons you pointed out. That is why I made the switch on my site. But your comments on styling of single post pages made me think about how that looks on my site. I think it needs some work, what do you think?