Comments on: 5 steps to a better blog – Part 3

By: Brad

Brad — Sat, 02 Jul 2005 21:14:29 +0000

I absolutely love this series. When I finally get around to redesigning my blog, I’ll definitely have to keep these lessons in mind. Can’t wait for the next two installments ;).

By: PELF

PELF — Fri, 01 Jul 2005 04:53:04 +0000

nice read. keep it up!

By: Alex B

Alex B — Thu, 30 Jun 2005 22:28:40 +0000

“Use different colors in links for visited content, so the users have some thing to guide them subconsciously between information they read before and whatÃ¢â‚¬â„¢s new.”

A very insightful suggestion you made in a previous installment, however you don’t pursue that rule yourself.

By: Jalansutera

Jalansutera — Thu, 30 Jun 2005 02:33:21 +0000

This is a very comprehensive tutorial on how to create a better blog. I suggest you to provide link to PART 1, PART 2 at the bottom of your post. This will make us find easily the previous articles. Thanks

By: fred

fred — Wed, 29 Jun 2005 19:43:44 +0000

Yes, they are indeed. But I balance that with meaningful font-weight properties and contrasting color (notice news headlines). I eat my own dog food whenever possible or I wouldn’t write about it :-)

My posts are meant for readability because of their length. When I want to call for attention to something, I use color. One thing that I didn’t mention that may still be worth covering is proper use of images, in between large chunks of text (or next to it) in order to relieve the eyes of some of the strain involved in reading black line after black line of text in a white background.

By: Jeff Wheeler

Jeff Wheeler — Wed, 29 Jun 2005 17:43:03 +0000

You say a lot of good info in there, and most all of it is correct. However, it doesn’t seem you follow your advice much. Almost all of your paragraphs are plain black-whte, including the headers.

I still love the text, even if it is grayscale.