The cold season is having fun. I’m sick as a dog.
Zeldman is too. So I thought, what the hell, stick a beat on it.
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Deborah
Well done Noel!
Zeldman’s boss.
Noël Jackson @
He said it, not me ;) And, I couldn’t be happier to help Zeldman rock out with WordPress.
Noel Jackson, a lead designer/developer at Automattic (the people who make WordPress), is my WordPress boss and my boy.
The Love You Make
Noël Jackson @
I didn’t know how to comment on Jeffrey’s article. I still don’t.
You’re an inspiration. Thanks for that (among other things).
Lunch was delicious by the way. :)
One day I realized I could not change what would happen, but I could influence how it happened. I could be the angry denier, hanging onto what no longer exists. Or I could embrace change with love and no conditions.
via Pain is my alarm clock – Jeffrey Zeldman Presents The Daily Report.
today, 2073 people hovered my site’s title
Noël Jackson @
I was famous today… to the 2073 of you that hovered over my site’s title and saw CSS 3 in action. All in response to the creature that is twitter.
Zeldman on Blog Design
Noël Jackson @
surely content is king but there are better ways to present your content than this… it looks like a regular wordpress theme.
I’d be intrigued to know what those better ways to present this content are.
It looks like a WordPress theme because it is one.
WordPress themes spring from Blogger themes. Blogger themes sprang from what Dave Winer, Jason Kottke and I and some of our friends were doing on the web in the mid-1990s. (I also designed some of the default Blogger themes.)
So it makes sense that my blog would look like a blog, and that a retro redesign of my blog would look like a primordial blogging template. It’s a zag away from the modern trend of making blogs look like newspapers or Flash sites or movie posters or other things.
That trend is interesting and those design explorations by other people can really be wonderful and can push web design in new directions.
But that’s not what I’m doing here, as noted in the “blog post” that precedes these comments. What I’m doing here is resurrecting early blogdom, with modern typographical niceties made possible by better standards support in modern browsers—you’re welcome!
Zeldman is Redesigned
Noël Jackson @
Mainly, the redesign is content focused. After so many years as a web designer, and after creative directing so many influential projects, I naturally considered doing a wide, three-column, ultra-modern design—something cool, detached, polished, and glowing with rich media and fancy-pants sliding-drawer JavaScript effects. Not that there’s anything wrong with those things. In the right circumstances, those things can rock hard. But this site is mainly about my writing. So I crafted a simple look that encourages reading and hearkens back to this site’s early years.
And, it was my pleasure helping him turn his HTML gold into WordPress magic.
Gale
Noël Jackson @
Jeffrey stumbles upon the answer to his dreams:
The nightmare that woke me concerned a town called Gale, Kansas.
It was a town for young murderesses and their parents.
John James Jacoby 4:59 pm on 18 Jan 2010 Permalink
Wow nice! Put that on your resume. :D