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Paddy Donnelly at Smashing Magazine: the death of the (boring) blog post?

Paddy Donnelly has a brilliant post at Smashing Magazine – a sort of Scott McCloud-like1   tour de force about how layouts look.  So I think Donnelly’s The Death of The Boring Blog Post? is as close to a “must-read” as is possible. For my direct purposes – I started blogging to write about disaster preparedness [...]

Skelliewag – beautiful redesign, increasingly thoughtful content

Skelliewag is a blog about blogging – a “Meta-Blog” – and it’s excellent. We’ll let Skellie describe herself: Skelliewag is a blog about planning, creating and growing the online projects you’re obsessed with. If you have big ideas that keep you awake at night (in a good way), this is written for you. Who is [...]

Dragos Roua: 100 Ways to Improve Your Blog

Dragos Roua: 100 Ways to Improve Your Blog – is actually more than 100 useful bits – because if one adds the high-quality advice added by readers in comments – the count is well over 100. Mr.  Roua’s blog, Dragos Roua – The choice of a personal path, uses the Thesis theme. Uses it in [...]

Wise counsel on writing and other oustanding resources at BloggingTips.com

Blogging Tips – written, it seems, by a large gang of extremely skilled web and graphic designers – is a blog I wish I’d been reading from the beginning. Some posts well worth reading: Improve Your Blog Typography with Typogrify A Few Tips On Paragraph Length (a  question which should be considered, in my view, [...]