What I like about my blog
Sunday, 31 October, 2004
- The design was all done by me;
- Navigation is easy;
- You can access archives to both my current listing and my blog from all pages;
- I have category archives;
- My blogroll appears on all pages;
- The colours (red/black/white);
- The amount of whitespace (though perhaps there could be more);
- The post headings really stand out;
- The blog div is in a different font from the rest of the site;
- It works in all browsers (though Firefox on an 800 px screen squishes up the top menu somewhat);
- It works on all screen sizes;
- It's clear where each post begins and ends;
- It makes good use of PHP includes;
- There's a search box which makes it very easy for me to find old posts;
- I have permalinks;
- Layout and formatting are completely controlled by CSS;
- It's powered by Movable Type;
- The header picture and its progressive fading to white (but for screens bigger than 1280 x 1024 px it probably doesn't work ... I can't remember if I fixed that problem or not);
- The division of the page is very clear.
I'm thinking about working on a blog redesign next week. We'll see how things go.
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What I like about your blog:
The colours are nice and look pretty consistent across monitors.
You know how this all works, so it doesn’t ever look broken.
You have classy slashes before and after your name.
I can comment on what you are reading and listening to.
Georgia is a nice font.
Your blogroll and current include appear on every page.
You use something other than ‘Posted by Karen at 1:27pm’.
You are honest and insightful about your life, and generally aren’t afraid to share the sad or negative things - it makes your weblog more real than the ‘I did this and that and it was good’ entries I often post.
The extensiveness of your blogroll has brought new depth to my own blog reading.
It’s clean (this last one is a copout, though, because I can’t think of more to say).
Oops - Movable Type ate my HTML.
Yeah, I know—it’s weird. I don’t know why it did that because I’ve specified “Allow HTML in comments”. Will have to ask Ben about that one.
Thanks for your comments!
Though sometimes I do post “Then I did this, then I did that” things.
Hi Karen, everyone keeps complaining about how my blog isn’t very pretty.
I continually insist that content should come before aesthetics, but people keep complaining.
Do you want to redesign my blog for me too?
Designing someone else’s blog is a difficult thing because your ideas may conflict and contradict the other person’s ideas; you may not like what I’d do for you, Haoran.