art direction

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,” he replied. “Maybe something that would be useful for people working with images.” Challenge accepted!

Systems like Sanity wants to free your content from the specific page it happens to be sitting on, so that you can flow it through APIs. That way you can reuse your painstakingly crafted content anywhere you need it.

So, what does this mean for images?

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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

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, this is a low-traffic, personal site, not major news portal or web app or anything where the "Who moved my cheese?" phenomenon is much stronger.

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