{"id":792,"date":"2004-07-01T00:46:55","date_gmt":"2004-07-01T00:46:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/?p=792"},"modified":"2004-07-01T00:46:55","modified_gmt":"2004-07-01T00:46:55","slug":"epiphany-anticipated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/archives\/792","title":{"rendered":"Epiphany anticipated."},"content":{"rendered":"

So the inimitable (or not) Jason Kottke just redesigned his website<\/a>. In his announcement post, he makes the following remark:<\/p>\n

I mentioned false starts above. Late last year, I had an entire design that I’d been working on for almost 9 months (on and off) done in Photoshop, ready to be cut up and coded. It was boxy, had a tiled background, diagonal stripes, drop shadows, and lots of ornamental finishes. It was pretty, clean, lots of personality, a nice design all the way around. And if there’s a dominant visual style (trend? fad?) right now, that’s it (some fine examples here, here, here, and Lance beat it over the head here). I just didn’t want to go there. So I went in a different direction, partially to avoid the crowd and partially to challenge myself. Do you know how hard it is to design text-heavy Web layouts that don’t use boxes? Boxes are the lazy Web designer’s best friend. \ud83d\ude09 I felt bad enough relying on all the horizontal rules.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Great minds, I guess. The weird thing is that I missed this had happened until five minutes ago,<\/i> which means that this weblog that I read fairly frequently anticipated tonight’s little design epiphany by three days<\/i> and I’m just now catching up. Wow, I feel like a slacker.
\n(Please do read that last sentence with all appropriate irony; what a sad commentary on the pride I take on being up-to-speed on large-scale adult geek clique gossip.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So the inimitable (or not) Jason Kottke just redesigned his website. In his announcement post, he makes the following remark: I mentioned false starts above. Late last year, I had an entire design that I’d been working on for almost 9 months (on and off) done in Photoshop, ready to be cut up and coded. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4e5QR-cM","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}