Scary Simple Blog
Category: Design...
Posted Monday, April 18, 2005 at 08:04 PM [GMT-6]

Garrett Dimon's new blog sports the cleanest design ever. Ever. It makes Jakob Nielsen's site look downright gaudy.

Garrett uses Textpattern to create and maintain his site(s). I'm not familiar with Textpattern, which, according to its word-dense website, is a "...flexible, elegant, easy-to-use content management system for all kinds of websites, even weblogs."

It appears that Textpattern is not for the faint of heart. Again, from its website: "Note that current versions presuppose existing site design skills: there is nothing plug-and-play about Textpattern, yet. A default layout and CSS are included with the distribution, but the onus is upon the tester to work Textpattern’s tags into their own markup and site design." In my experience, anytime the documentation uses the word "onus," it's a clear signal that I'm probably in over my head. Even Garrett's description of his introduction to Textpattern has the ominous title of "Learning to Love Textpattern."

Regardless of the tool he uses, I must admit that I greatly admire the simplicity and focus of his design. As I contemplate a makeover for the Gazette, I think I could do worse than emulate the principles, if not the complete practices embodied in GarretDimon.com.

Tip o'the hat to Digital Web Magazine's blog

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Eric, after I read your haiku on GarrettDimon.com, I couldn't resist entering the haiku contest (in the archives). You are my inspiration, man. Here it is:

Q:
What has 2dolphins,
a fireant, sticky doorknobs,
and a yellow bug?

A:
Midland, TX

Posted by: Larry S. at April 21, 2005 05:25 PM

Larry, very cool...and I'm sure it will be quite cryptic to Dimon's readers!

Man, I'm still trying to uncross my eyes after visiting your 3D website! ;-)

Posted by: Eric at April 21, 2005 05:42 PM
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