So, I installed that new Dictionary for Numbers thing XKCD was talking about, which told me that, among other things, Tumblr is worth as much as (according to Yahoo!) J.K. Rawling was in 2011.
My personal website used to be wordpress based, but then I decided to save myself the trouble of constantly admining it (updating, backing up, whatevs...) and redirected my domain to my tumblr. So much easier now.
Default Wordpress themes look like shit. Wordpress is powerful, but not everyone has the time/design savvy to make it good. Tumblr has a much lower barrier to entry for making something look decent.
Default Wordpress themes look like shit. Wordpress is powerful, but not everyone has the time/design savvy to make it good. Tumblr has a much lower barrier to entry for making something look decent.
It's also got way too low a barrier to entry for making something absolutely horrendous.
Default Wordpress themes look like shit. Wordpress is powerful, but not everyone has the time/design savvy to make it good. Tumblr has a much lower barrier to entry for making something look decent.
Default Wordpress theme is terrific. Better than 95% of web sites out there. 99% of custom WordPress themes are godawful. Unless you are a pro designer, or pay a pro designer big money, stick with the default like I do.
Are you off your rocker? The default wordpress theme is absolute shit. I use wordpress for most of my sites and it's not hard to make it pretty. Look at the FNPL site, for instance. That took maybe an hour to nail down.
Are you off your rocker? The default wordpress theme is absolute shit. I use wordpress for most of my sites and it's not hard to make it pretty. Look at the FNPL site, for instance. That took maybe an hour to nail down.
Sorry to break it to you. The FNPL site is ugly as sin. Not the worst I've seen, but far from good. It's insanely cluttered. You've got different background colors behind small and hard to read text. A random unusable podcast player hanging out on the right.
I may not be able to make good design, but I can tell good design. Apparently, most can't.
1) Responsive. Works perfectly on any screen of any size from a tiny ass phone to a giant monitor.
2) Typography first. All the font sizes are big and easy to read. Great contrast with the background. The monospace code is clearly separated from the regular text. Links are obvious. Plenty of whitespace.
3) Absolute simplicity. No clutter. No redundancy. Absolute minimum navigation to get the job done.
4) Clear branding. They pack so much information into just that one circular icon. Not one line of meta text explaining the site itself aside from "A new kind of magazine." It explains itself visually. The exact opposite of MEGA MAN! MEGA MAN!
5) Fun to read and use. Have you tried to put your mouse near the Kudos icon? Probably the best like button I've ever seen. Actually makes you want to read more articles and like more things just to use the button.
This is what modern web design looks like. If you are still loading your page up with all sorts of cluttered nonsense, you are stuck in the '90s. You seriously think a patterned background is good? You were probably one of the people who liked MySpace back in the day.
I love The Verge's website design. It's the only site I interact with fairly regularly that I consider a true pleasure to use.
Verge individual article pages are really good, but the home page is not so great. It's got way too much going on in too little space. Clearly all the separate Verge blogs are fighting for a piece of that page. They really need to give more space to some, and demote others to clean it up.
The Verge has vaguely hinted at a redesign coming eventually, and it's pretty obvious that The Verge's design is a bit behind Polygon and SB Nation. This page gives a hint at the sort of stuff the Vox Product team is working on, I think:
So my friends and I started up this blog to post our daily creative outputs. The idea is to spend at least 15 minutes every day on something to post, even if it ends up being crappy. We're still getting into the swing of it and trying to get the rest of our crew to start posting, but right now it's semi-regular between me, Slime Girls, Thymine, Space Boyfriend, and Melt Channel.
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Also, personal tumblr.
Personal Blog
And this thing.
Blog that I post silly/fun things to that employers will hopefully not see. This is the one worth following.
I may not be able to make good design, but I can tell good design. Apparently, most can't.
https://svbtle.com/
1) Responsive. Works perfectly on any screen of any size from a tiny ass phone to a giant monitor.
2) Typography first. All the font sizes are big and easy to read. Great contrast with the background. The monospace code is clearly separated from the regular text. Links are obvious. Plenty of whitespace.
3) Absolute simplicity. No clutter. No redundancy. Absolute minimum navigation to get the job done.
4) Clear branding. They pack so much information into just that one circular icon. Not one line of meta text explaining the site itself aside from "A new kind of magazine." It explains itself visually. The exact opposite of MEGA MAN! MEGA MAN!
5) Fun to read and use. Have you tried to put your mouse near the Kudos icon? Probably the best like button I've ever seen. Actually makes you want to read more articles and like more things just to use the button.
This is what modern web design looks like. If you are still loading your page up with all sorts of cluttered nonsense, you are stuck in the '90s. You seriously think a patterned background is good? You were probably one of the people who liked MySpace back in the day.
http://www.theverge.com/video
So my friends and I started up this blog to post our daily creative outputs. The idea is to spend at least 15 minutes every day on something to post, even if it ends up being crappy. We're still getting into the swing of it and trying to get the rest of our crew to start posting, but right now it's semi-regular between me, Slime Girls, Thymine, Space Boyfriend, and Melt Channel.
This is how I've been wasting time recently.
Also, awesome project.