Minimalist design blog12/2/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() The right amount while reading and there are text sizes, whitespacing, lineĪre some guidelines on keeping it simple but nice at the same time. Choose a good font, limit the column width so your eyes move just In the 1980’s, some graphic and typographic design is needed to make the Of course I’m not posting pure plain txt files on the web. Picture, it will be part of the post body, not a featured one. Of them completely, since they were mostly meaningless. Where visitors are still trying to figure out what the website is about and whatĪrticle to read. Stuff my users are not visiting my website for?Ī simple example: nobody needs featured images of the posts on the home page, Why should I develop and administrate more I do realize it may seem limiting but take it as a challenge or just about aĬritical point of view that helps creating a better blog: it’s about theĬontent, nothing more nothing less. “But I can’t live with all that Javascript and ads and iframes and fonts and 7 We are not talking about responsiveness, screen sizes etc. My website’s content could be reached and read with ease. When all/most of this worked, at least in a decent way, I was reassured that Left to right: without CSS, in the Firefox Reader View, in the command line browser w3m. How looks with style variations or no styling Left to right and top down: normal, black and white, negative, F.lux Darkroom mode. How looks through color and hue changing programs Is important for blind visitors or anybody who wants to listed to your last while using a screen reader (I’m still working to improve that) - this.in browser readers (Firefox and Safari have one integrated).with F.lux’s Darkroom mode activated, which makes your screen black and red.with F.lux activated (a great software, BTW) whichĬonverts your screen colors into orange-yellowish to reduce eye-strain during.in a command line browser like links, elinks, lynx or w3m.could work without Javascript, for instance when using the Tor Browser.I kept in mind that my blog’s content should look nice: Icons of Decode and minified it as much as possible. Click for full resolution.Įxperimented with even more minimalism, since the website was completely rebuiltįrom the very foundation. Left to right and top down: Customizr, Matheson, Decode and Hugo Zen. Screenshots, the design went steadily from a standard poorly made corporate-like My blog went through a few theme changes: It should be simple, readable without distractions, ads, animated stuff and Some photographers post their pictures on their blog, some artists may link andĬomment their creations posted elsewhere (Soundcloud, Deviantart etc.),ĭevelopers/IT-people share their code and software solutions but mostly blogsĪre for textual content. The center of any blog is its content, not its look. ![]() Lesson: think about what do users need on your website. I had to call them toįind out that they were closed on Mondays. Including webcams of their hall but not any opening time. Yet I’ve found a restaurant’s website offering everything, Personally I never need anything else when browsing a restaurant’s website - anyĬomment from the customers is usually on third party platforms like opening time: especially on which weekdays is the restaurant is closed.contact information: the phone number for reservations, social media links.location information: the address, maybe a map (Google Maps).Why do users need my website for? What do they search on it? Who is my audience? An example of bad content design: a restaurant’s websiteĪny restaurant’s website needs mostly these 3-4 things: Have to think about the utilitaristic design, the content design. It?), but minimalism as a way of thinking about your website forces you toĬare about the content and if that content is visible and easily reachable. It may not be your design choice, it may not suit you for many reasons (think ofĪ minimalist, mostly text Disney website - it just doesn’t work out, does Keeping a minimal website is great because it gives the visitors whatever they I know, I know, the quote may be overused but I still like it. “A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left toĪdd, but when there is nothing left to take away.” ![]()
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