Recently, several popular blogs have changed their faces. But it seems that everyone will return to the structure before the BLOG design is not asked. Let's take a look at the results of these websites.
Three revices
Mezzoblue V5 looks fresh and is still blue, very good. I look more like blog than the old version, I like it.
Design by Fire V3 individuals think it is a big progress, no old version is so "unique", but browsing and reading are much easier. Still the style of Andrei, just more perfect, more like blog.
The Weekly Standards fixed width, I like it.
These three blogs have their own reasons: increasing user friendship, reducing maintenance work, improves brand effect, just happy ... and more. After the revision, many discussions have been revised: fixed width or automatic adjustment; reading friendliness; whether to use flash, etc.. Some people have proposed BLOG design too much, no new meaning, I am very interested in this topic.
BLOG structure is almost? so what?
Mike Davidson's new design for Andrei has the following comments:
Quote content:
"I really like the new version of the design, I don't care about her look like blog. She is a blog, isn't it? I
I look like a man, and I am very satisfied with this, why? because I
It is a man! "
Why do we look similar to blog look similar? I am absolutely not. I think the similar structure that is shared with other blogger is very normal. You should choose on the visual element, on the details, and in the content. It is not the same as, beer, cola and juice taste. You never mix cola and beer, although they all use aluminum cans.
That's why I will only choose to change.
Style, not to choose to change
structure. I will focus on the most important parties: the brand, details, content and discussion intensity. Look at the process of Dave to Mezzoblue, highlight the brand through the design of blue, although the structure is similar to many other websites, but the style (at least in my opinion) is unique.
"Flash News?
In addition, some people think that blog does not need to design. With the continuous spread of rolling news output standards, plus a lot of blogs only play the "small fixed-point news repeater" role, so that some people have begun to doubt what they need to do BLOG . I think this is a reasonable consideration. Although the answer is actually seen in the bottom of Blog.
I think it is designed to be designed like "I feel life", because most of the above content is what I think is to be preserved forever. There are some blogs (for example
Scoble), permanent content has little, so the design may not matter for her.
This situation does have some problems in the popularization of Blog, and I believe that the development of RSS has an important impact on the existence of many content transit stations. I have no exact answer to this, but it is worth thinking about.
Is the BLOG design principle?
So, we temporarily and assume your blog and mine, and you treat it as a website. The next question is: Is there any principle of blog design? In fact, I think there is no, at least
Specialized principles for BLOG. You must want your website to read, easy to browse, fast, etc., and
There is no difference in the requirements of any website. I think Blog's special is that she is more dependent on the content, which is one of the reasons why they have a similar reason. This may be because you feel more comfortable in the browsing program and information structure you are familiar with.
Now you can see Blogger and website designers now, they all have rich design experience and feelings, they are designing them to think the most perfect website, and there is no standard to determine who is the best, so people always return. The same conclusion. So, don't you need to innovate?
About innovation should be said to be the greatest and most exciting part of the design. But actually design or the purpose of service (often commercial purposes), can we stop trying to be innovative?
of course not. Depending on the purpose of your website, your current Blog may not be the best place to try innovation, but she may be! If you want to build a BLOG design experiment, you can do some unusual design. But if you want more people to read the content on your website, then my suggestion is to use the form of a popular structure that has been proven to be popular.
in conclusion
Just like many other online media, it's all of your decisive role.
The purpose of the construction site. The huge content of the content of BLOG uses popular structure and navigation should be a good choice, because it is easy to read, easy to browse, easy to maintain. Of course, design enthusiasts can certainly have a wide sky, creative unlimited.
[This log is coming from the night from 2004-08-23 11:14 AM editor]
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