Since I had a moment to breath today, I figured it was time to tweak the blog a bit. In part that’s because I’ve been following The Elements of Typographic Style Applied to the Web. It’s a web guide based on Robert Bringhurst’s excellent work. Mainly, I’ve been really dissatisfied with a number of things about this design. And since I’m attempting to get a gig in a printing school, I should at least practice what I preach when it comes to type.
What you see below are character counts. I was attempting to restrict this text column to approximately 60 characters (the golden rule is between 45 and 77 characters).
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April 20th, 2006 at 2:48 pm
Hey good luck with the Bringhurst work. Fun to watch you talk about printing. Good luck with your interview results and I really liked the Secret Wars Re-enactment Society.
April 21st, 2006 at 7:36 am
Thanks Candy. Things are slowly coming along. We’ll see where everything goes.
- Matt
April 21st, 2006 at 10:21 pm
You also need to work on your crufty URLs.
April 22nd, 2006 at 2:58 pm
Ok Adam, I need a bit more on what exactly is making them crufty. I realize that I have a lot of content to link in. But in terms of the body URLs, where are the issues?
- MB
April 23rd, 2006 at 9:43 pm
I’m using a loose definition of cruft. Take a look at the permalink for this entry:
http://www.waking-dream.com/?p=58
Not too helpful in determining what the page is.
A better URL for the same page could be:
http://www.waking-dream.com/archives/reworking-styles/
or just:
http://www.waking-dream.com/reworking-styles/
or you could use a date-based method:
http://www.waking-dream.com/archives/2006/04/20/reworking-styles/