The main reason for this post is because I created a landing page that organizes all the articles I have written for the “Creating a Blog Design from Scratch” Series outside of the blog’s software. I choose to do this, because I don’t believe a page or post listing all the articles would be as effective as creating a custom page. I think it came out really nice and makes it easy to access all the articles for the series on one page to refer to.

Other than that, I have made changes to the sidebar for the seventh time. The previous one was clean, but slightly lackluster. I pretty much just added some color and made a new RSS button. I also added my twitter and stumbleupon profiles to the sidebar for easier access. People were finding my profile by searching for it so this will make it easier. Go ahead and add me.

Note: I put follow on in the comments because I like to be nice, but please do not abuse it and try to use keywords as your name. If you do not have a name, I will give you one.

I just wanted to make some comments on the direction of this blog and get some feedback so give me some.

What is happening now

I have been working on a really big article that will help wrap up the “Creating a Blog Design from Scratch” series. After that I will organize it so that there is a page that will link to each article so that it’s easy to find everything. Plus, I am going to redesign the sidebar again for the seventh time.

Once that is done, I will start finishing up the “Blog Design 101″series. I know some people have been waiting for the next article on that series so I just wanted to let you know I haven’t forgotten about it.

Future plans

In the future, I want to start touching on the coding side of blog design so this poll is to see which blog software most people are using. I will be covering WordPress for sure, but I want to see if it is worthwhile to cover anything else. Only pick the blogs that you are interested in reading an article about. If you have any other topics you would like me to cover, feel free to leave a comment or send me an email.

Nothing is more satisfying to a designer than being recognized for their efforts in creating a design. I finished putting together my portfolio about last month and since then I have been included in a few web galleries and top X lists, which makes me all giddy every time it happens.

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I found an interesting article and video I would like to share with you guys about the importance of framing, context, or design. It is an experiment in which they took one of the best musicians, put him in regular clothes, and had him play in the subway. It is amazing to see the effects that changing a frame has despite the high level of content that is there.

Link to article. 

I spent 4 hours this morning trying to move the blog over to it’s own domain. Let’s just say there was a lot of interesting problems this morning involving redirecting the old domain to this one. Other than that I discovered that telling the world you made a photoshop tutorial was a lot more difficult than I thought it would be. Almost every site required a registration in order to submit a tutorial, which involved a lot of forms to fill out.

The good news is that with the new shiny domain name, I have decided that I am focusing this whole blog on just blog designs and anything that relates to it. I have a lot of topics, series, and experiments that I want to cover so it will definitely be interesting . I am so excited about this blog that I have to pretty much stop myself from posting too much or I would be posting 4-5 times a day.

Please update your feeds so they grab it from this site and not the old one.

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