It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan. — Eleanor Roosevelt
A fancy experiential essay from the team at Readymag, which is a tool for building… fancy experiential essays, about fancy experiential essays:
… Read article “Read Me!”With all the technology addressing readability issues, it’s still design basics that distinguish a readable text from one that isn’t. Here are some simple rules we use ourselves when developing engaging texts and layouts.
When we saw Chris put up a list of cloud-hosted data-stores, we couldn’t resist letting him know that we also had one of those, only ours is a fully featured CMS that come with a rich query language and an open source, real time, collaborative authoring tool that you can tailor to your specific needs using React. It’s called Sanity.io.
“Add us to your list!” we asked Chris. “No, your stuff is interesting, can’t you write about you… Read article “Five interesting ways to use Sanity.io for image art direction”
2009: Smashing Magazine article “20 Extraordinary Blogs With Unique Post Designs”
2013: We tested those URL’s to see how they were holding up: 18/40 intact
2016: We tested again: 13/40 intact, even with a few returning from the dead … Read article “Updated Art Direction Data”
As I do from time to time, I redesigned my personal site (redesign notes). I wanted to make the site a better vessel for writing, so the shell of the site has a much nicer structure for doing that. It’s 100% WordPress of course. I did break one major rule: the design is a complete overhaul of the previous site, rather than an evolutionary step. I just felt like evolution wasn’t going to cut it this time. And besides, … Read article “Redesigned Personal Site”
