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Great Find: Is Your Design C.R.A.P.?

June 24, 2006 by Liz Leave a Comment

This link comes from Cat Morley, of Designers who Blog. It was waiting when I got to my computer this morning. If you know Cat Morley and Mike Rundle, you’ll want to read this article as much as I did.

Great Find: How C.R.A.P. Is Your Design by MIke Rundle
Permalink: http://www.thinkvitamin.com/features/design/how-crap-is-your-site-design

Audience/Topic: Blog and Webiste Design Review
Content: I’ve had the pleasure of working with Mike Rundle. I worked with him when Succesful Blog was with 9rules. Mike designed the SOB badge. He’s considered one of the best designers in the blogworld. So when Mike writes about blog design. It’s worth checking, especially when the person who points out the article is Cat Morely, who is also highly recognized for her design skills.

Mike’s article explains a popular design approach and acronym, called C.R.A.P. coined by designer/author Robin Williams. C.R.A.P. stands for

Contrast + Repitition + Alignment + Proximity

In his article, Mike goes beyond explaining each concept. He provides screenshots and reviews the conceptual points in action — when they’re working and when they’re not. Think of this as a multi-page primer of design basics that you want beside you, when you start tweaking at your template. To read the article click on the title shot below.

  How CRAP Is Your Design

Design can make reading your blog inviting, welcoming, and easy on the reader. It’s one more form of branding and blog promotion. Great design lets readers see that you have an interest in them and a stake in what you’re doing. The finest content means hardly anything, if no one can get past the design to read it.

Thanks Cat, for pointing us to this article, and thanks Mike, for taking the time to write it.

–ME “Liz” Strauss

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Filed Under: Blog Review, Design, Successful Blog Tagged With: bc, C.R.A.P.-design, Cat-Morley, Designers-who-Blog, Mike-Rundle, Vitamins

Comments

  1. Mike Rundle says

    June 24, 2006 at 10:27 PM

    Thanks Liz!

    Reply
  2. ME Strauss says

    June 24, 2006 at 10:29 PM

    You’re welcome, Mike!

    Reply
  3. Tania from Germany says

    June 25, 2006 at 3:32 PM

    I LOVE your new background colors! Soft as well as clear. I’m very sensitive to any kind of distraction and I do appreciate pages which I can read focusedly. No, I don’t say that your blog was distractive…what I find is that you really added value by taking these colours.
    I’m sure you know waht I mean.
    Smiles
    Tania
    ….always screwing up languages…

    Reply
  4. ME Strauss says

    June 25, 2006 at 3:45 PM

    Hi Tania,
    These are just a few small changes on the way to a face lift. I’m hoping that soon you’ll see the finishe product. I’m very happy with where things are going too. Things look newer, fresh, and more alive. Don’t they!

    Thank you so much for saying something! 🙂

    Reply

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