Spreading some design love in our internal Campfire chat room…
Ryan Singer: Another gem from Jason Santa Maria’s blog where every post is a unique design:
Jason Zimdars: Yeah, love his work. Another guy that constantly redesigns his site at a super high level is Tyler Thompson. Love his stuff.
Brad Fults
on 23 Oct 09Dustin Curtis also does this, e.g. his post on sleep patterns.
Jonathan
on 23 Oct 09Another good one: http://dustincurtis.com/
tobrb
on 23 Oct 09I don’t get why there aren’t more “design oriented” cmses that could make things like this easy. Right now, it is essentially a pain in the derrière to do something like this in any cms I know of.
Nathaniel Smith
on 23 Oct 09Also don’t miss:
Dustin Curtis (dustincurtis.com)
Gregory Wood (gregorywood.co.uk)
Carlos Pero
on 23 Oct 09+1 for Dustin, really like his work.
All around these guys are the antithesis of blogging to microblogging craze. Kudos for taking the time to add so much to the words.
@tobrb you’re absolutely right, because CMSes thrive on “templates”. Most people would consider putting words on the page 80-100% of the effort and call it a day, which is what an off-the-shelf CMS was built to do. Though, I’ve seen a resurgence towards static sites so you can more readily implement these vastly different designs per post (among other benefits like SEO, handling load, and simplicity).
Jamie, Baymard Institute
on 23 Oct 09There’s so much good stuff out there, it’s amazing..
Thanks for sharing these pieces of art (not to be confused with design).
David Rupert
on 23 Oct 09TrentWalton.com has this too. It’s pretty sweet.
Vishal Arora
on 23 Oct 09Another one: The Bold Italic
I think we’ll be seeing more and more of this. It’s time to break some paradigms as they relate to web design.
Zach Rhoads
on 23 Oct 09Tyler seems to be using squarespace.com for is redesigns. They make it super simple to change out a design (via an in-browser WYSIWYG editor). I did the same thing for my site (zachrhoads.com) and would recommend it to anyone.
Timonthy
on 23 Oct 09And with RSS reader, all of these great designs are never seen.
Joe Sullivan
on 23 Oct 09A Brief Message too, although it hasn’t been updated in some time.
Jeremy Ricketts
on 23 Oct 09http://gregorywood.co.uk is really amazing as well. Look at this one. And this one too. Wow!
Sean McArthur
on 23 Oct 09And David DeSandro.
Ms. Jen
on 24 Oct 09I have an each post is custom design on a private blog of which I use Movable Type’s custom fields plugin to be able to alter and customize my CSS.
I am assuming that most other self-hosted cms’ have a similar plugin that allows one to customize tags and thus whole sections of one’s post.
Jamie
on 24 Oct 09Another site that does it too: http://www.hazardousink.com
Anonymous Coward
on 24 Oct 09Thanks to the commenters who pointed out Gregory Wood’s site. I absolutely love his story of why he learned diving!
FredS
on 24 Oct 09Tyler’s rant in ie6 is really off-putting. What a dick.
FredS
on 24 Oct 09^in = on
Noel Jackson
on 25 Oct 09Don’t forget Jack Cheng: http://jackcheng.com/
And, of course, the Art Direction plugin for WP (by moi): http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/art-direction/
Gary Aston
on 25 Oct 09Noel’s plug-in is great; I’ve tried two others for the same purpose but his seems the best.
Others are:
http://www.joedolson.com/articles/wp-post-styling/ http://github.com/ionfish/designate/
Dan
on 26 Oct 09Aside from the Miles Davis page, Tyler Thompson’s site looks pretty much the same to me. All the blog posts I looked at used the same design.
Just wondering if I’m missing something.
Dan
on 26 Oct 09@FredS: He might have taken that a bit too far, but seriously why is anyone using IE6 by choice anymore? If you’re using it at work because you have to, he’s obviously not directing that at you personally.
renduh
on 26 Oct 09Great post. I love the idea of designing blog posts to match the content and Jason Santa Maria is the master.
I’ve just relaunched my blog Avoid Contact With Eyes and all the posts are individually designed. It’s still a work in progress but getting there :)
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