Danfoss - BANNED Posted April 10, 2011 Report Share Posted April 10, 2011 Im just looking at making my own blog. I was on Facebook but though i'd do a blog than deal with the rest of the world. I've seen the Tartybikes and Clean and really like that simple minimal layout and wouldn't mind something the same but how do i go about it? Anyone got any advise and tips Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Revolver Posted April 10, 2011 Report Share Posted April 10, 2011 Maybe you should look for a minimalist template that's ready made? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark W Posted April 10, 2011 Report Share Posted April 10, 2011 Glad you like the blog (well, blogs!). The TartyBikes blog is just a template as far as I know - I let Ads sort that one out. There are some pretty stripped-out templates available through Blogspot anyway, and their new 'Designer' thing makes tweaking it pretty easy too. The Clean blog's a bit of a weird one though. I had to basically just guess my way through that, as I didn't want any text showing on the site, didn't want any padding on anything, and basically just wanted to have an "Older posts" and "Newer posts" button and that was it. The majority of it was done originally in the Designer, but then I switched to the HTML editor and just hacked the shit out of it. I don't know how viewable the coding is for the Clean blog, but I really hope no-one with any web design skillz checks it out 'cos they'll rip me Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danfoss - BANNED Posted April 11, 2011 Author Report Share Posted April 11, 2011 Glad you like the blog (well, blogs!). The TartyBikes blog is just a template as far as I know - I let Ads sort that one out. There are some pretty stripped-out templates available through Blogspot anyway, and their new 'Designer' thing makes tweaking it pretty easy too. The Clean blog's a bit of a weird one though. I had to basically just guess my way through that, as I didn't want any text showing on the site, didn't want any padding on anything, and basically just wanted to have an "Older posts" and "Newer posts" button and that was it. The majority of it was done originally in the Designer, but then I switched to the HTML editor and just hacked the shit out of it. I don't know how viewable the coding is for the Clean blog, but I really hope no-one with any web design skillz checks it out 'cos they'll rip me I'll play with it some more. The hand writen stuff, is that hand writen then scanned in? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AdamR28 Posted April 11, 2011 Report Share Posted April 11, 2011 The hand-written stuff is hand-written then scanned. Every other bit of text is written on a type-writer then scanned in. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danfoss - BANNED Posted April 11, 2011 Author Report Share Posted April 11, 2011 The hand-written stuff is hand-written then scanned. Every other bit of text is written on a type-writer then scanned in. Thats effort there!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark W Posted April 11, 2011 Report Share Posted April 11, 2011 If a job's worth doing... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danfoss - BANNED Posted April 12, 2011 Author Report Share Posted April 12, 2011 If a job's worth doing... Aye very true but in todays world hand writing is a thing of the past. I avoid at it all costs Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JD™ Posted April 12, 2011 Report Share Posted April 12, 2011 Aye very true but in todays world hand writing is a thing of the past. I avoid at it all costs Handwriting may be a thing of the past, but individuality isn't so it works bloody well over at Clean in my opinion... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr. Nick Riviera Posted April 12, 2011 Report Share Posted April 12, 2011 Surely text in images will hamper the amount of traffic you'll pick up from search engines though? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AdamR28 Posted April 12, 2011 Report Share Posted April 12, 2011 Correct - Not sure Mark is after thousands of hits from search engines though! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr. Nick Riviera Posted April 12, 2011 Report Share Posted April 12, 2011 True, it's a fairly niche thing and I guess it's posted in all the relevant places, traffic was the wrong word to use, should have said readers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AdamR28 Posted April 12, 2011 Report Share Posted April 12, 2011 Ah I getcha. But yeah, super niche, fashion over function... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JD™ Posted April 12, 2011 Report Share Posted April 12, 2011 Yea, if it wasn't so niche I'd be all over the text as images side of things for SEO and/or ad targeting (either incoming or future hosted) but I would imagine the 'fashion over function', to steal Adams phrase, will actually add far more targeted traffic than text itself will. I'm sure it's subconsciously one of the reasons that Clean is in my Google Reader rather than just looking out here for updates... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matthew62 Posted April 12, 2011 Report Share Posted April 12, 2011 Aye very true but in todays world hand writing is a thing of the past. I avoid at it all costs WRONG! Really think about it, how can it be a thing of the past? It's not like a portable music medium - it's not going to be superseded like the minidisc my CD, CD by mp3 etc. Western language might be fairly easy to communicate through typed letters but it's not so easy way out East so calligraphy and so on is still very important there. Some of my favourite illustrators hand write text on their images rather than using type created on a computer for that 'uniqueness' reason - think about illustration itself..... Why physically draw when you can open up Photoshop and dick about all day having never picked up a pencil? It's just not how it is. Our handwriting, drawing and other forms of human inputted communication allow us to differentiate ourselves from one another - something no typeface can do. When ever i use hand drawn letters in my personal or professional design work i never even consider using one of the many very good 'handwriting fonts' as i think it's just a stupid, contradictory idea. I write or illustrate every letter as there are many intrinsic differences when we write, no 'E' will ever be exactly the same for example, whereas if you used a handwriting font, that's exactly what you'd get. It ain't convenient sure - but it most certainly isn't dead. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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