Comments on: cre8d 2.0: an initial blog design idea

By: Peter

Peter — Sun, 02 Apr 2006 18:55:24 +0000

I’ve been thinking about blog design issues as well recently, becoming increasingly dissatisfied with the information overload that most blogs seem to present – links links text links text text text links. Far too dense for my taste. Why not present the visitor with the post first, formost, and (perhaps?) only? I think this one is moving in the right direction.

By: redstar

redstar — Mon, 27 Mar 2006 13:37:22 +0000

Thanxz for the famfam tip!

By: Pete

Pete — Sun, 26 Mar 2006 22:46:19 +0000

Wow! That’s impressive. Really well thought out to have two layouts like that…

By: Rachel

Rachel — Sun, 26 Mar 2006 22:14:43 +0000

Justin, yes it’s not too hard to get the most recent post to display differently from the rest.

Here’s two ways you could do it (I prefer the second way):

* Loop through your posts twice, once to show the first post, and once to show the rest.

* Have a counter in your loop – and have a check to see if ($postnumber == 1) do something different for that post.

By: Rachel

Rachel — Sun, 26 Mar 2006 22:10:21 +0000

Pete – good question. I could do it as a fluid design or I could do something like I did on TalkCrunch – try resizing your window – it has a layout for 1024 wide and a layout for 800px wide.

By: Rachel

Rachel — Sun, 26 Mar 2006 22:09:03 +0000

Oops, thanks Derek, that was a big oversight of mine not to adjust the tabindex. Have fixed it up now.

By: Pete

Pete — Sun, 26 Mar 2006 19:59:00 +0000

I really love it, you’ve done a brilliant job, and like Jack wouldn’t mind seeing it implemented?

I notice its wide resolution though, do you think its ok now to design blogs to naturally fit on 1024/1280 resolution, or are we still duty bound to cater for the 800 x 600 folks? I noticed a lot of the recent designs on the CSS showcases have been wider, and would love to know your views on this?