I stumbled upon Mat Heerema's blog looking for other blogs on web design. Right off the bat I liked the way he redesigned his site and that he uses “tags” which I haven't learned how to do yet. He's also discovered some cool blogs that have recently been redesigned including
- Veerle’s Blog
- Jonathan Snook
- Jeff Croft
- Natalie Jost
Although I like Matt's layout I don't like the fact that he uses a black background with white text. This makes it hard to read especially when your in a dark room. Veerle's blog uses a dark background with light text also but the colors are more subdued so the contrast makes it a little better on the eyes. Jonathan Snook's site is similar with a very dark grey background with bight neon green text. Again, looks cool but is hard to read.
Anyway all these cool new blog designs makes me envious. Maybe I need to start thinking of how to redesign this site.
Hi Jeff, thanks for the link. I agree with you about the readability of light on dark. I plan for my site to be an ongoing experiment in readability.
As for the tags, it is simply an implementation of this brilliant WordPress plugin:
http://www.neato.co.nz/ultimate-tag-warrior/
I did a minimal amount of hacking to get it to do exactly what I wanted, but that’s how I did it.
Thanks for link to the tag plugin. I tried installing it but it’s too much for me to comprehend this late at night/morning. Also, the tags work just like my categories do so I’ll probably not use the tags anyhow. Thanks though, much appreciated.