Posts
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Decorating minimalism
I spent last weekend poking around the outer edges of devices, browsers and websites, trying to find a way to make this site display nicely in as many of those places as possible. Of course, we can’t test every browser and device, but it’s worth trying some outside your everyday laptop or phone. In this case I opted for the Nokia 8110 and my TV’s browser.
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Making your simple blog display properly on a Samsung TV
Over the weekend I blogged about checking whether your website renders well on all devices, using a Nokia 8110 as a baseline. The thinking being: if your website displays decently on the smallest possible device, the likelihood is it will work on anything your reader throws at it.
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To make your website viewable on any device you’ll have to be conservative with your CSS
In my last article I encouraged us to make sure our simple blogs were viewable on any device. We can use Firefox’s Responsive Design Mode to emulate screen dimensions and network conditions, but not anything else. The best approach is to therefore test on a real device if we want to get a true idea of how it handles our site.
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What blogs should be: Viewable on any device, in any context
It makes zero sense to design a blog that can’t be read on any device, but you still find the odd site that has been designed for a desktop monitor only and requires some form of adjustment to read on a phone, most likely rotating the screen into landscape mode. And even then the text, links and buttons will be too small, and you’ll be pinching and zooming. Hard to believe how common this experience was a few years back.
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View transitions: an obligatory “am I missing something?” post
(Update. Brian points out that view transitions might be a big thing when it comes to progressive web apps (PWAs, initialism collectors). This makes sense to me in the context of trying to move things away from closed apps to the open web.)
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Performative minimalism
Honestly, this is a very strong want, an objet I would like to be able to place on a table I own, or even in the pocket of an item of clothing that I was wearing. It’s beautiful, non? It would also enable me to enjoy a
genuinely rewarding man-machine experience
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What blogs should be: Introduction
In my last post, I explored the idea of a blog “non-design”:
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On non-designing a blog
Simone recounts how he serendipititiously hit upon his blog design, which looks a bit like mine. Normal disclaimer: at the time of writing. This site’s appearance often changes, and I suspect that now Simone has found this design, his will too.
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My idea of fun
I can’t tell if you should be having fun, or whether I’m actually having fun.
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15 years of blogging
In all the excitement, I forgot my blog reached a milestone on Friday. On 5 May it turned 15, sharing a birthday with the old man. Weirdly, it’s a few months older than child B, who’s deep into the first year of her GCSEs. I was a naïve 36 year old back then, about to start my first web job. In 15 years time I’ll be 66. My god.