Design Posts From the Archives
Today I’m going to focus on design related posts in the archives that most of you have never seen. Some of these articles were written when I had 20-50 readers and I think it’s a shame that these get buried in the archives. So, this week while I’m busy I’m linking off to my archives.
Some of these posts were written quite a while ago (one over a year ago) and could probably use a rewriting. It would be nice to refresh things with an extra year of experience and development of my personal style, plus all the nice formatting options at my fingertips now.
Considering Readability when Designing
Written over 370 days ago, this web typography article goes into detail about fonts and their uses on the web, and how you should consider them while in mockup stages in Photoshop (or app of your choice).
I’d love to do a “part 2″ of this article, maybe going more in depth and making it more concise. Either way, I like the article still, a year and a week later. It sucks when a post like that goes without comments for 11 months, too 
Things to Include in Every Post
Going back to October 2007, this article is about stylings to include in your blog. It is more aimed at the content design than elements to include in your visual presentation. I would argue that content design can be just as important as “the rest of it”. On a site like this, I spend more time on content and let everything fall into place around it.
Other design specific articles from the past include:
- Simple Elements to Great Blog Design. Written only a few weeks ago, I think you should check it out.
- News Papers and Web Design. Great inspiration can come from newspapers. Locally, the National Post has great print design (can’t say the same for their site, so I won’t link it).
- CSS Snippets Every Style Sheet Needs. Some small bits of code I use in my everyday coding, even today.
- Best Fonts for Academic Papers. Typography for print on your everyday letter size papers, with the intent purpose of handing it in to be marked. Who needs Times anyway?
Also, the post “UBD Takes over the Make Money Online Niche” had a great discussion in the comments. Though it was more of a quick rant than anything design related (or useful, for that matter).
Instead of going into the archives for something like SEO or copywriting posts, I’ll post that refresh of the first article linked, Considering Readability when Designing.
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D Web Design
March 20th, 2008 at 1:40 AM
Thank you Connor for the links to the archive.
I believe that we all learn from time to time. Adding experience to knowledge would certainly revive your posts from the archive
Mont Tremblant skier
March 20th, 2008 at 12:58 PM
The first article is worth reading, I think. It is well related with web usability. The usability aspect should be considered when designing.
Mission Viejo
March 20th, 2008 at 1:00 PM
Great list here - I especially like the newspaper idea and there’s plenty of newspaper style wordpress templates out there now too that take advantage of this!
Maria Ozawa
March 21st, 2008 at 3:02 AM
I use Arial as my default font, since most ads are of that font. I don’t want any part of my blog outshining others.
Timous
March 21st, 2008 at 6:48 PM
Those are some good articles even though they are old. Good advice on the fonts. I always consider the standards in order to create uniform presentation. When I want a more creative font, I create a font list in CSS.
Agent 001
March 23rd, 2008 at 4:44 AM
I am first time visiting your blog and it is impressive.I saw your blog on list of top 30 bloggers under 21 by Michael from retireat21.com . Well congratulation for that.I wish I was in that list.I am 19.
seo
July 3rd, 2008 at 3:31 PM
Readability is indeed the most important factor at the end of the day.
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