Form follows function
A little while ago I reported that better taste than sorry went through some changes. My focus will be on design, ideas, inspiration and my personal opinion to these things. The American architect Louis Sullivan coined the phrase 1896 and now I needed to obey: form follows function. How could I run a weblog about design without having a layout that expresses design?
With the help of some creative minds I was finally able to realize what I had in mind for a long time. But unfortunately I was not able to redesign the blog all by myself. A special big Thank You to Jan Oelze. He was the one who did all the coding. After walkingtoworktoday it was the second project I realized with him. And I must say that it is great to work with him. It is purely awesome to have someone sitting right next to you, who can bring the stuff on to the screen which you have in mind. But there were several other people who helped me out with their opinions and advices. So, thank you Malte, Martin, Marcel and Ben. And of course I need to thank the Information Architects for creating this beautiful wordpress template. I used it sas an frame to adjust everything as I want it to be.
Within my blog there are several new features. For example the network page. There you can see who incfluenes me, who is in continous exchange with me and basically who gives me input for better taste than sorry. Of course the list is not done, several people/websites will be added during next week(s). My network is growing almost every day, but I want to present it to you, in order to make it possible to join and get in contact with these people yourself.
Another new feature is the More Of Me page. Here you can easily get an overview what I am doing. Through my twitter stream you can get a lot of links to similar topics like the ones on better taste than sorry but also several other things.
I really hope you like what you see and tell me if there is something that needs to be fixed or something that could be improved. Like I said in the blogpost about my latest changes: I hope that you enjoy reading it as much as I enjoy writing it.
22 Comments
Markus Reuter
It is such a great feeling to write a blog post in this new environment.
Jeriko
Thought I had more time to give you my opinion… oh well, turned out great anyway! ;-)
Philipp
Yeah, looks nice!
marcel
ME LIKEZ!
Nils
good job! i love your new design….its clean functional….
Kai
Ich mag das iA Theme auch sehr. Gute Wahl, gute Aufteilung, guter Inhalt. Weitermachen!
Markus Reuter
Oh yeah, Kai reminded me. I should have mentioned that the theme bases on the Information Architecture WordPress theme. (I don’t have to mention it, because I bought it but anyways).
And thank you all for the positive feedback. But seriously, if you find things to correct, please tell me.
Sebastian
Wow, eine gute Wahl. Sehr schön, sehr schön, sehr schön (hier am Rechner).
Todo: Eine Optimierung für mobile Geräte (vorhin mit dem iPhone in der Bahn).
Paulchen
just beautiful :)
Malte
Ich freue mich, dass es so schön schnell ging und ich denke das neue Design wird deinen Inhalten gute Dienste erweisen :)
Marius
Ein tolles Design. Mir gefällt die Idee der beiden Seiten “More of Me” und insbesondere “Network” total gut. Mal was anderes als der übliche “About me” und “Links” Standard, den fast jeder nutzt – ich nehme mich leider nicht aus. Glückwunsch zum gelungenen Redesign.
Thang
Great choice and very good work! I especially like the fade-in effect everywhere.
Sebastian
Der fade-in-Effekt ist mir auch aufgefallen – wie baut man den?
Markus Reuter
Also, damit sich die Bilder erst im Blickbereich laden braucht man dieses Plugin: Lazy Load Enabled und für den Apple-Pop-Up-Effekt ist das Plugin nötig: fancybox.
Emu
Yes – Der Neuanstrich ist auf jeden Fall gelungen – vor allem die Lesbarkeit ist deutlich besser geworden. Und das ist bei so schönen Inhalten ja auch immer wichtig ;)
iGNANT
Ganz ganz groß! Vor alle Network und More of Me gefallen mir besonders gut!! Glückwunsch
Martin Wolf
iLike! Aber weißt du ja schon. ;)
Florian
Ich bin begeistert! Minimalismus ist das Schwierigste an Design überhaupt, so gesehen hast du alles richtig gemacht. Nur was höre ich da, du hast das Theme von iA gekauft? Möchtest du uns da nähere Informationen verraten? ;) Das hättest du doch auch selbst geschafft!
Die Network- und More Of Me-Seiten sind auf jeden Fall große Klasse, in meinem Kopf schwirren jetzt schon lauter tolle neue Ideen.
Glückwunsch und einen guten Start in die nächtste better taste than sorry-Phase!
Benjamin Weigl
Well done! Markus. Hausta rein :-)
Oliver
Hey Markus, wirklich sehr schön geworden! Ein passenderes Theme zu deinen Inhalten hättest du nicht finden können!
Oliver
Ich hab auch gar kein Bock mehr die Seite in Feedreader zu lesen :-)
Yannick
Eine deutliche Verbesserung! Gut so!