Thinking About The Blog
Tuesday, May 26, 2009
I'm currently on the 7th version of mikearauz.com. Since I first put up the site in 2003, I've tweaked and evolved the site through different designs and structures almost once a year.
I'm starting to make plans for the next evolution...
What's changed the most over the past 6 years is the quantity of information, links, images, and videos, that I have to publish. I do believe that the significance of website domains is diminishing; so, I think of mikearauz.com as simply the name for the stream of information that I swim through online every day, and choose to share with anyone who wants to tune in.
I went back and read an old post from July 2007, What is a blog? I think that the basic premise still holds true. But, things haven't changed as quickly as I expected. The .com is still and important introductory point.
My goal for the next iteration of my website is going to be to present a deep and vast river. The river will include current blog posts (probably tending toward the lengthy), an easily browse-able blog archive, Tumblr links, pics, and videos, links shared on Twitter, sources of inspiration, and assorted hobbies and experiments.
How do you conceive of your website/blog? What are some of your favorite blog designs?
I'm starting to make plans for the next evolution...
What's changed the most over the past 6 years is the quantity of information, links, images, and videos, that I have to publish. I do believe that the significance of website domains is diminishing; so, I think of mikearauz.com as simply the name for the stream of information that I swim through online every day, and choose to share with anyone who wants to tune in.
I went back and read an old post from July 2007, What is a blog? I think that the basic premise still holds true. But, things haven't changed as quickly as I expected. The .com is still and important introductory point.
My goal for the next iteration of my website is going to be to present a deep and vast river. The river will include current blog posts (probably tending toward the lengthy), an easily browse-able blog archive, Tumblr links, pics, and videos, links shared on Twitter, sources of inspiration, and assorted hobbies and experiments.
How do you conceive of your website/blog? What are some of your favorite blog designs?
4 Comments:
Subtraction.com is probably one of my favorite blog designs, closely followed by kottke.org (even after his annual redesigns).
By the way, do you design your site, or do you outsource?
Up to now, I've done all of the design and development of my site all by myself. But, I think that my aspirations for this site have finally outgrown my capabilities. So, on the next iteration I plan to hire a developer to work with.
I love subtraction.com, too. Certainly a perfect example of the power of good type design.
Hi Mike. Besides my Twitter comment on readability, you could start looking here:
http://wordpress.org/showcase/
I'm a huge fan of minimalist, grid-based blogs, so Khoi Vinh's Subtraction.comis a favorite of mine, as well, followed very closely by almost every iteration I've seen of Derek Punsalan's 5ThirtyOne (whose "Grid Focus" WordPress template I now use on my own blog, and like rather a lot).
I'm working on my own design that more fully integrates my Tumblr content, Delicious links, and other "link only" microblogs. So I'll be interested to see what you come up with this time, as well.
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