Designing websites for readers and writers

bq. "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--":http://mattgemmell.com/2013/08/29/content-as-medium  --by Matt Gemmell--

bq. "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--":http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2013/08/the-code-keyboard.html --by Jeff Atwood--

bq. "But the most powerful tool on the web is still words. At its heart, web design should be about words." - "--Words--":http://justinjackson.ca/words.html --by Justin Jackson--


more.

* "The War on Wordsmiths":https://medium.com/writers-on-writing/436798659dd4

* "The short story of Longreads, according to founder Mark Armstrong":http://gigaom.com/2013/08/05/the-short-story-of-longreads-according-to-founder-mark-armstrong/

* [[Crafting an online media story]]

* "The CODE Keyboard":http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2013/08/the-code-keyboard.html - _"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":http://mattgemmell.com/2013/08/29/content-as-medium/

* [[GitHub system for writers]]

* "Words":http://justinjackson.ca/words.html - _"But the most powerful tool on the web is still words. At its heart, web design should be about words."_

* "Reminder: Design is still about words":http://37signals.com/svn/posts/3404-reminder-design-is-still-about-words

* "The honest web design":https://medium.com/i-m-h-o/65a02a631fd6

* "4 Reasons I Use Large Type":http://mikeyanderson.com/optimal_characters_per_line

* "Are Current Web Design Trends Pushing Us Back to 1999? ":http://sixrevisions.com/web_design/are-current-web-design-trends-pushing-us-back-to-1999/
** "Hacker News thread":https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5749714

* "Readability":http://www.teehanlax.com/story/readability/

* "The Making of Medium":http://www.teehanlax.com/story/medium/

* "Favorite website":http://simplebits.com/notebook/2013/02/16/food-for-thought/

* "I like blogging software":http://dashes.com/anil/2013/04/i-like-blogging-software.html

* "A Reader-First Internet":https://medium.com/i-dont-know-a-thing/9a6c9c04e2f9

* "Subcompact Publishing":http://craigmod.com/journal/subcompact_publishing/

* "Lazy Eyes - How we read online":http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/the_browser/2008/06/lazy_eyes.single.html

* Posts by "Matt Gemmell":http://mattgemmell.com/
** "Designing blogs for readers":http://mattgemmell.com/2013/05/22/designing-blogs-for-readers/
*** "Hacker News thread":https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5756815
** "Comments Off":http://mattgemmell.com/2011/11/29/comments-off/
** "Comments Still Off":http://mattgemmell.com/2012/01/03/comments-still-off/
** "Comments Commentary":http://mattgemmell.com/2012/01/07/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":http://ia.net/blog/responsive-typography-the-basics/

* blog design: http://malone.cc

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

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