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- Marcus, on my top 10 are the daily devotionals. I love getting those from you in the morning, always a thought provoking insight that challenges me to go deeper in my faith. Thanks for sharing...
- I am not sure what you mean by transparency online. A DISQUS profile is only as transparent as the creator of it allowed it to be...And an application like that encourages people to work harder at...
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- And... if we don't fancy ourselves to be poets? Um, what then? (I took the liberty to listen anyway and liked it. : )
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Editing, writing, faith, and work. And poetry because I like poetry.
A long comment to Karin at Kiss2 turned into a full blown post. She asked:
Why, if it is called the World-Wide-web, do so many websites, blogs, forums etc make it so difficult for the world-wide-visitor to find out (simply and almost instantly) where the company/business/organisa ... Continue reading »
Why, if it is called the World-Wide-web, do so many websites, blogs, forums etc make it so difficult for the world-wide-visitor to find out (simply and almost instantly) where the company/business/organisa ... Continue reading »
2 years ago
A message without a good visual medium is like a great singer without a microphone. We ain't hearin' anything from ya! (And reading lips is rather tiring.)
2 years ago
I've worked in marketing and advertising creating business materials and learned a few design principles along the way. But in some ways the internet seems like it's own entity in this regard (so I claim no great design where my own blog is concerned).
Your post begs for a part 2 (and even 3). How about suggestions as to what makes for good design?
LL-you practice what you preach - and excellently. I love the visuals (photos) that accompany your posts.
2 years ago
A Musing Mom, the biggest design stick of all comes from some of the social networking sites. (MySpace anyone?)
And being a hack designer, I wouldn't know what to say in a longer series. Except this:
Less is more.
Form follows function.
Don't widget for the sake of widgets.
Don't try to eat the entire buffet of options.
Hey, that was a fun little list!
2 years ago
We even won an ADDY award for our website..more a credit to the website design firm than us but it was still nice.
2 years ago
Thanks for the link and you've turned my 'wondering about' into a interesting post.
As 'amateur' webdesigner I had a great 'mentor' in webdesign and content. This great guy (I called him the real web-wizard) always insisted on one thing with everything you do on your website: importance of functionality and consistency in the lay-out of every page, making sure your visitor knows to find his/her way around the site (and when you have a real shop also his/her away eventually to that real place). Learned a lot from him.
2 years ago
2 years ago
I'm totally jealous that you have a mentor. I want one! Though probably the more appropriate response is to see who I can be a mentor to.
Helping reader's find their way around is so important. You can see that my page is still a work in progress in that regard.
And you raise another question for blog design specifically. What is it we want our readers to do? Where are we driving them? For me, right now, my call to action is for comments.
I'd be curious what other bloggers are hoping their readers will do...
2 years ago
Our FAQ blog on Wood You Like Natural Wooden Flooring (our business in Kent UK) informs our customers about all things related to wooden flooring and 'calls' for them to ask their specific questions (problems with/on/about flooring they encounter).
My Kiss2 blog is about kepping business simple and 'calls' for conversations about these issues, sharing of experiences with other business people.
My new blog (pondering) is personal, 'calls' for reading, smiling, recognising same experiences. Is brand new (created this week) and I'll wait and see what will happen to it.
Have a good week next week,everyone; last week had been a topper! (for me ;-))