After having had to read (and post to) blogs under the strict limitations of a PDA, I’ve finally realised how important it is to make blogs PDA-friendly. “Finally” because I’ve actually read (quite a number of) articles promoting usability for handhelds (and you probably have as well), but never found the drive to conquer sheer […]
Yeah, the new design + structure is named blogHelper II. Zero creativity I know, but since it doesn’t have any negative impact, well… Anyway, this post might get a bit long, so here’s an outline of what I intend to do with it:
ExplainCertain decisions regarding design - whether on the graphical, structural, or usability aspects […]
If you aren’t reading this post in your favourite feed reader, you’ll notice that blogHelper has undergone a design change - as hinted earlier.
Like Technosailor, a revamp of blog architecture has also occured - though “revamp” may be too strong a word. Instead of replacing view modes, I’ve merely supplemented the traditional reverse chronological view […]
Sneaky, or rather, creative means of blending AdSense adverts are commonplace. We’ve seen our fair share of them here, with this hidden link unit (or rather, used to be) being one example.
Here’s yet another creative piece of ad placement, courtesy of WorkBoxers:
As usual, whether this sort of placement adheres to Google AdSense’s Terms of Service […]
After two weeks of labour, Aaron Brazell has completed the redesign of Technosailor - with key restructuring (or rather, re-architecturing) having taken place. Two new “views” have been implemented to supplement the current reverse chronological blog “view”. They are the Conversation view where recently commented posts float to the top, and the Best Of view […]
Professional blog designs were once not only luxury items (and still is, and should be BTW), but also mysterious things which had their costs shrouded from the public eye (a.k.a. the average blogger). After all, having to ask for a quote can be pretty daunting.
But with a kickstart from Chris Pearson early last month, it […]
A post published over at Quick Online Tips yesterday reminded me of a problem I used to face over at one of my blogs: Long words and URLs breaking my layout. What happens is that when a very long word is written in a post or comment (longer than its container), it pushes down any […]
As was announced earlier, The Blog Herald (TBH) has undergone an “extreme makeover” design-wise - switching from its relatively drab prior three-column design to a newspaper-ish multi-column above-bottom-fold layout courtesy of Chris Pearson. Yeah, that’s a mouthful all right. So, you’ll have to check out the site itself to understand what I mean.
Remember when we […]
