#indieweb 2019-08-18

2019-08-18 UTC
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jacky Nice!
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jacky Also a thread of personal websites on Twitter, a lot are nice https://twitter.com/julesforrest/status/1162802903288991744?s=19
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@julesforrest It's 2019 and everything is a trashfire but I'm starting to see a really lovely resurgence of interesting and thoughtfully executed personal websites*, so I'm starting a thread to keep track of them all. *Bonus points if the personal website is also a blog. (twitter.com/_/status/1162802903288991744)
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[tantek] those are great! I know Jules from XOXO conf!
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[tantek] what is design
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Loqi Design is a catchall term used to refer to everything that affects users about a page/site including: Graphic design (including site icon) User interface design (UI design) User experience (UX) Information architecture (IA) URL design https://indieweb.org/design
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[tantek] Design << Good examples of indieweb design: https://tatianamac.com/ (especially https://tatianamac.com/speaking/), https://chasem.co/ — both via https://twitter.com/julesforrest/status/1162802903288991744?s=19
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@julesforrest It's 2019 and everything is a trashfire but I'm starting to see a really lovely resurgence of interesting and thoughtfully executed personal websites*, so I'm starting a thread to keep track of them all. *Bonus points if the personal website is also a blog. (twitter.com/_/status/1162802903288991744)
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Loqi ok, I added "Good examples of indieweb design: https://tatianamac.com/ (especially https://tatianamac.com/speaking/), https://chasem.co/ — both via https://twitter.com/julesforrest/status/1162802903288991744?s=19" to the "See Also" section of /design https://indieweb.org/wiki/index.php?diff=64471&oldid=63790
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[tantek] jacky, the first two examples are excellent and work great even without JS! the third is just two inactive headings w/o JS - no content or working links
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[jgmac1106] I love the sites from the CSS Grid design challenge a few years back jackys, kickscondor, sonniesedge all belong on the list
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[jgmac1106] aaronpk as well just for the customization and quantified self integration into design
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Loqi [indienews] New post: "Designs That Inspire Me" https://jgregorymcverry.com/inspiringdesigns.html
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[jgmac1106] https://dltr.law.duke.edu/
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[Lewis_Cowles] What is a good read-time limit to set for blog articles. I aim for 5-15 minutes
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Loqi It looks like we don't have a page for "good read-time limit to set for blog articles. I aim for 5-15 minutes" yet. Would you like to create it? (Or just say "good read-time limit to set for blog articles. I aim for 5-15 minutes is ____", a sentence describing the term)
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[tantek] great question [Lewis_Cowles] — and really what it sounds like is you're asking about good blog article length
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[tantek] I think it can vary a lot depending on the topic, audience, author etc.
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[tantek] E.g. I tend to write either one-topic posts, in which case I try to keep the reading time quite short, maybe *under* 5 min
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[tantek] Or I write a multi-topic / narrative post in which it takes as long as it takes (for me)
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[tantek] sometimes I'll break a particularly long topic / narrative into a series of posts
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[tantek] (which helps get started with writing them as well, often easier to write about one part of something than the whole something)
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Loqi [indienews] New post: "Restructuring The Way That My Site's Content Types Work" https://www.jvt.me/posts/2019/08/18/restructure-content-types/
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[Lewis_Cowles] [tantek]++
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Loqi [tantek] has 14 karma in this channel over the last year (120 in all channels)
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[Lewis_Cowles] This is an excellent solution. I'd already made H2's so they could perhaps all be smaller articles. 16-21 minutes was the reading length, so hopefully 4 articles will be enough. I'll have a play.
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[tantek] I find that people like articles in a series like that too. Something to look forward to (next article in the series), and people who find/discover latter articles are likely to go back and read from the beginning
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[tantek] yes it's a good way to split apart a single blog post that feels like it is "getting too big" (by whatever personal measure)
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[Lewis_Cowles] TBH cutting down 20+ minutes of content is what I've opted to do, but I put fragments elsewhere so I can read them later, and try to incorporate. They are things that I want to say. Maybe they don't belong in the article
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