BBS 05: Good Blog Design: Speed, Accessibility, Transparency, and Clarity

January 25, 2005 at 10:20 AM

Blog Business Summit comments on DL Byron and D. Keith Robinson's session on Good Blog Design: Speed, Accessibility, Transparency, and Clarity

I came late to this session, per my usual conference schedule. DL and Keith are talking about how to customize your templates in blogging tools such as Movable Type and Blogger. Someone in the audience asked if just any web designer could do this or does the designer need to be an expert with the blogging tool. I think the response was that it can be learned but a web designer will be much more effective and efficient if they know the tool they are design for. Then someone asked if there was a place they could go to find designers who know Movable Type. That was a good point, no specific solution was given. A mention of a search on Google was made.

WiFi went down at the conference and their slides we on the web (just like mine are, however I made sure to have a copy on CD). DL said he would write out the code and began gesticulating in the air. They decided to move on to some more audience questions. Some discussion stared about the system they were using for their slides. DL fielded a question about the structure of his site. Talking about examples of how a blog is integrated into a site and visa versa. Digital Web Magazine was mentioned as a good example of a blog being just a part of a page rather than a whole site or even a whole page. Keith is talking about how you can flag items in Movable Type.