Designing websites for readers and writers

"Thankfully, we're starting to see something of a Renaissance. Comment-forms are dropping off blogs like vestigial tails. Text sizes are increasing yearly, and sites are being stripped and whitewashed, with most of their old cruft gone without a trace. The medium is starting to disappear again." - Content as Medium by Matt Gemmell

"Strip away the images and gradients and vectors from even the fanciest web page, and you'll find that the web is mostly words." - The CODE Keyboard by Jeff Atwood

"But the most powerful tool on the web is still words. At its heart, web design should be about words." - Words by Justin Jackson

• The War on Wordsmiths

• The short story of Longreads, according to founder Mark Armstrong

• Crafting an online media story

• The CODE Keyboard - "We know how to use the most powerful tool on the web – words. Strip away the images and gradients and vectors from even the fanciest web page, and you'll find that the web is mostly words. If you believe, as I do, in the power of words, then keyboards have to be one of the most amazing tools mankind has ever created."

• Content as Medium

• GitHub system for writers

• Words

• Reminder: Design is still about words

• The honest web design

• 4 Reasons I Use Large Type

• Are Current Web Design Trends Pushing Us Back to 1999?
  • Hacker News thread

• Readability

• The Making of Medium

• Favorite website

• I like blogging software

• A Reader-First Internet

• Subcompact Publishing

• Lazy Eyes - How we read online

• Posts by Matt Gemmell
  • Designing blogs for readers
    • Hacker News thread
  • Comments Off
  • Comments Still Off
  • Comments Commentary

• new blogging networks:
  • http://medium.com
  • http://svbtle.com

• Planned new personal blogging/publishing platform: http://john.onolan.org/ghost

• Responsive Typography: The Basics

• blog design: http://malone.cc

• nice blog design: http://sketchingwithcode.com

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