http://www.cre8d-design.com/2006/02/mena-trott-on-blog-design/ blog designer Mon, 06 Feb 2012 07:03:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.cre8d-design.com/2006/02/mena-trott-on-blog-design/comment-page-1/#comment-668 My blog timestamps theory: removing the clutter — cre8d design blog Thu, 02 Mar 2006 06:25:35 +0000 http://www.cre8d-design.com/wordpress/2006/02/27/mena-trott-on-blog-design/#comment-668 [...] Mena Trott recently said that one of the biggest challenges for blog design is keeping them uncluttered. I’ve been thinking about this for some time and have been reflecting on 37 Signal’s post entitled “It just doesn’t matter”. In the post Jason writes in response to questions about Campfire: “Why time stamps every 5 minutes? Why not time stamp every chat line?” Answer: It just doesn’t matter. How often do you need to track a conversation by the second or even the minute? Certainly not 95% of the time. 5 minute stamps are sufficient because anything more specific just doesn’t matter. [...] [...] Mena Trott recently said that one of the biggest challenges for blog design is keeping them uncluttered. I’ve been thinking about this for some time and have been reflecting on 37 Signal’s post entitled “It just doesn’t matter”. In the post Jason writes in response to questions about Campfire: “Why time stamps every 5 minutes? Why not time stamp every chat line?” Answer: It just doesn’t matter. How often do you need to track a conversation by the second or even the minute? Certainly not 95% of the time. 5 minute stamps are sufficient because anything more specific just doesn’t matter. [...]

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