Design Really Does Matter

17 October 2002

Looks like some redecorating is going on over at Mena’s place. My first view of her site made me aware that there were different weblog tools. It also made me aware that a weblog could have just as much design flexibility and variety as any other type of web site.

I know – these aren’t major discoveries for 9 out of 10 people. I was the other person at that time. I couldn’t spell HTML and now I can get at least 2 of the letters without looking them up!

After seeing Dollar Short, I began to prowl around the Movable Type sites as they updated. The more I visited those, the more I found great designs that seemed to result from using Movable Type.

Well, Movable Type may have not caused the good designs, but it was obviously setting an example and many people were taking design seriously as they built their weblogs. Mena may be raising the bar again!

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