Comments on: A Study on the Art of a Well-Designed Weblog http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/01/29/a-study-on-the-art-of-a-well-designed-weblog/ Helping you learn more and do more with WordPress Fri, 24 May 2013 11:12:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Improve Your Blog: Usability : The Blog Herald http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/01/29/a-study-on-the-art-of-a-well-designed-weblog/#comment-808160 Wed, 12 Dec 2007 06:07:17 +0000 http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/01/29/a-study-on-the-art-of-a-well-designed-weblog/#comment-808160 [...] Few people still understand what feeds are or how to use them, so you better go back to learning how people use websites and blogs in order to get a real perspective on the average user’s experience. [...]

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]]> By: Michael http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/01/29/a-study-on-the-art-of-a-well-designed-weblog/#comment-2097 Mon, 30 Jan 2006 05:09:27 +0000 http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/01/29/a-study-on-the-art-of-a-well-designed-weblog/#comment-2097 Even though I’m not that old, I’m still a fan of oldschool layout design. While a great website design can do a lot to improve your blog I think that a good post design goes a long way. This includes:

1. Separating paragraphs.
2. Using pictures to illustrate the point.
3. Organizing data.

Of course there are little things that can be done to improves the reading experience. I remember working with a former colleague in the school paper and what she taught me about stacking columns and wrapping text. While many of these tips don’t apply to webdesign, I guess the point is that people need to pay attention to the actual content that’s going onto each post.

Sometimes I get the feeling as if people are slapping text onto their blogs without thinking about their layout.

]]> By: wetscalpel http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/01/29/a-study-on-the-art-of-a-well-designed-weblog/#comment-2084 Sun, 29 Jan 2006 22:54:04 +0000 http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/01/29/a-study-on-the-art-of-a-well-designed-weblog/#comment-2084 Hi Lorelle,
That’s an interesting site and comments.
I had a good look at the screen shots, and agree that they can be excellent!
Of equal interest is to look at the sites as they are NOW (the shots/post was made 2 years ago). Some of them are – now- awful!
Maybe we’ve come full circle from the clean and simple, to the glaring garish, and back to the clean?
As expected back then, many of them (most?) are movable type rather than wordpress. No reason, however, that wordpress theme designers can’t surpass them :D

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