Today there are many extortionate acts of poor design happening from what we read in some magazines and books , to what we check on Television . I see nothing more annoying than the pop - up animated teasers that pass off in the corner of the cover during a motion-picture show , or the ‘ bug ’ of a web logo remaining on - screen the entire time I am experiencing the entertainment .
What we should centre on is the ‘ experience ’ , not the ‘ dominion of mark - on - paper ’ today , for each has a solidification of dissimilar rules . principle which change as engineering moves fore . First , about print and composition : Some of you have learn me wrong , I roll in the hay print on newspaper publisher , but yes , I do call back it is going forth . perchance not in our life-time , but certainly in a few . Right now , I like the feel and non - techyness of newspaper , but … .. a big but…….it ’s go away , whether you like it or not . Not because multitude do n’t like it , it ’s go aside because it is n’t profitable .
Gourmet Magazine , The Boston Globe , Plant Journals , all going way . Let ’s present it . My point it , I would rather have a digital daybook than NO journal . How many youthful the great unwashed do you sleep together under 30 who read a newspaper today ? Even libraries are plump digital , Google is presently undergoing a project to skim every Bible in the world , andCushing Academy closed their libraryand went digital for their students . DO I like it ? perchance not , but the option is worse , so when you write and tell me that paper is n’t go bad off , think first , inform yourself , and , it you do n’t agree , fine , but do n’t apply it as an excuse to reject digital mediums . We all need to change , to conform with applied science , or we become ethnic roadkill .
But back to color , and this web log .
This hebdomad , a few readers have written me some note of encouragement , but also a few complaint about how non-white my site is , and how difficult they find it to study . It should come as no surprise that I prefer dark websites with light or whitened knocked out type . Perhaps a personal predilection , but there is some logic behind it too . I have found , being a designer , that many mass apply the same formula as print on paper , to digital spiritualist , for black backgrounds with white case is difficult on newspaper , but the human centre and mind , prefer the white text on a solid black . Part of the job is that I am pen too much , for too much schoolbook with this layout , is difficult to read . Maybe I should just compose captions for photos , until I migrate the situation to one that put up both typeface for text on whitened , and subtitle that are in a different typeface ?
Look , monitor are like television set screens , essentially , lightbulbs , and good designers know that part of designing stunning web experiences come in controlling the light , setting the stage , and everything becomes part of the flavour , from the manner of the photos to the lighting an graphics direction of the shots , to the color palette . But I have reject going to a white page online , On paper , I would agree , for I am onetime schooltime when it comes to the rule of typography , in fact , I am a oddball about type too . The regulation for digital designing is different than that on report , but that too is change , and although subjective , But there is a grey expanse , and infact , it may be either grey , or as newer mac ’s and other covert allow , a dimming switching . Plasma and LED screens are also less white , so white suddenly work better . Still , for color picture taking , I choose dark environments , because of the theatrical nature of the solace scummy tones . Still , I am willing to take heed to all of you , and get to a good place . If I was not fix to a template , I would have more exemption , but more on that subsequently . I am work on start another website . The Gasterias are starting to bud up in the greenhouse .
hazard that we ca n’t have both . Besides , the baptismal font that this Blogger guide limits me to utilize is too bold , and the lead is too close for so much white school text on fateful . I will over the next few day reintroduce my wood transmitter ground , as well as drama with some of the tints of the type to slim the contrast until it is just perfect . Until then , see on the left field and add your thoughts and vote . Or , email me and let me have a go at it what you think . But there is a whole group of hoi polloi who beleive otherwise .
So , let ’s vote . Do you prefer a colored background ( on which photos take care best)or , a ignitor background?Photo web site like Nikonians for Nikon fans , know the benefits of darkness . Some sites have an graceful economic consumption of dark , but the gradation are what really make it . Here are my cerebration . I agree that the current figure is hard to read , I lose the link to the chocolate-brown wood approach pattern , which made the black less deep , and the off white type was less harsh in contrast . I also belive that an all snowy digital page is ho-hum on the eyes , if one look at one all day , as I do . As a prefessional interior designer , I sell many ideas that are grey , or screens that emit less color . The finest simulacrum sites use mordant or gloomy background , as do theaters , credit on movie , broadcast . However , latterly , subdued grey gradations with opprobrious or sorry grey type is possible , so I may attend at that as an choice . The hunky-dory design blog Design Sponge has a design which I admire , but is a second meddlesome for what we do , but I like the montage expression of it . When , and if I move to a website , I might consider some montage construct like this , or perhaps more styling like Terrain .
Nike knows the benefit of theatrical lighting and dreary sites . Still , the solution should use refined case rather than the horsey typeface extend by BLOGGER.Anyway , I am open to designing a raw website , but please see that this Blogger chopine restrict me on what I can really do , since I only have a few templates to function with . Also , I have been project to move my web log to the other service of process called WordPress , and host it on a host at Bluehost . I purchase the URL , and was ready to move it on Jan 1 , but found out that I would loose all of my photo over the retiring 4 years , and for keep them , I would have to re upload each one . Which is an impossible labor . I front at lease someone to assist me migrate my web log to WordPress , but the cost was a trivial high ( at $ 1500 ) so I an stuck here for a while , until I go a new blog on WordPress perchance . Still do work on that one !
SO , to redesign this site ( which I seem to get bored with and redesign often , anyway , , I would get it on to see all of your thoughts . After all , you are the ones who need to read it , not me ! take the public opinion poll , let me cognize ! Then , I can post some design and you could take . Unless you are all willing to just move to a fresh universal resource locator , then , I can have a magazine style layout , with thumnails and pull down tabs for bulbs , alpines , vegetables , invention , etc !
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