Rethinking blog designs

I’m beginning to think that the typical blog design — mine included — are not made for the content. This train of thought has been prompted by Reviving Anorexic Web Writing. To give credit where it’s due, Cristos over at Live by the Chip has been saying for a while that due to the layout of the typical blog, as you read down the page, there is a lot of wasted space since there is nothing but the content, and it’s usually in the middle of the page in a narrow viewing column.

The challenge I’m going to try to tackle is to not only make the content pop out more, but see how I can minimize the empty, boring nothing that surrounds a post the further down the page you read. Studies show that if you write great content, people will read it, so how do you make the bottom of the page interesting?

If you have any ideas, please leave them in the comments, and I’ll be more than happy to start a conversation with you to come up with a great design.

Texas Chainsaw Revisited

Ok, this was just funny. Like laughing so hard I can’t breathe.

I'm moving on

Well, it’s been officially announced, so I can now write my post.

I’ve accepted a job offer, and I’ll be starting my new job on August 6th. The company is Prospero Technologies, way up in Littleton, MA. I’ll be the Social Media Designer there, and that means I’ll be putting together the designs and styles for blogs, message boards, and forums for our projects. They also have a blog, which I hope to contribute to once I get my feet wet.

I’m going to miss a lot of the people I work with, but I’m also friends with them, so I’m sure I’ll still see them outside of work. At the same time, there’s a great group of people over at PT, and I’m sure I’ll slide right in to the family there. I’ll post with more news soon.