Khaled Abou Alfa, author of Broken Kode, is the designer of Manji, which is the template used on this very website. In a recent post, Khaled muses about something
I’m just going to try and tweak the index page. It’s probably going to have more in common with Pixelsurgeon or Crown Dozen, than a typical blog, but I guess that’s where my thoughts are heading right now.
Funny, that’s where my thoughts have been headed right now also. I can’t wait to see what he comes up with, considering how much I love his “just the content ma’am” approach to the template design. I’d like to see how that will mesh with an index page, a real, good old fashioned index page.
Surely you remember index pages, back before blogs, when webpages had those things that resembled cover pages (”splash pages” they were sometimes called) At their best, these pages acted like a table of contents, giving readers a clear view of just what’s going on here anyway. I think that’s a lot more of a user fiendly way to present content than to simply drop them down on a blog, like so many soldiers in alien enemy territory.
Barring begging or bribery, this will probably be my last posting for a little while. I’m up to my ears in a few creative projects right now, only one of them being a way to use the ideas mentioned above.
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