{"id":870,"date":"2004-09-25T09:42:48","date_gmt":"2004-09-25T09:42:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/?p=870"},"modified":"2004-09-25T09:42:48","modified_gmt":"2004-09-25T09:42:48","slug":"on-the-other-hand-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/archives\/870","title":{"rendered":"On the other hand&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am suddenly reconsidering the design trajectory I&#8217;d been taking for my new weblog.  Why?  I was futzing around on my current <a href=\"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\">personal site<\/a>, looking for a piece of content, and I realized that with a couple of small exceptions, I <i>really liked<\/i> the look and feel of that site, even better than the new one.  I&#8217;ve also been reading Adam Greenfield&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/v-2.org\/design.php\">design notes on v-2<\/a> and realizing that yes, indeed, I do share his inclination towards stark, minimalist navigation and disinclination towards superfluous Flash widgets.  Which is too bad, because I&#8217;ve been making some kind of nice Flash widgets, but at the end of the day they&#8217;re just not what I should be working on.  What I <i>should<\/i> be working on are new interactive narratives, design experiments and truly excellent writing and observations, not trying to make myself into something I&#8217;m not &#150; an &#8220;edgy&#8221; web designer.  Reading Adam&#8217;s notes, I&#8217;m learning from his mistake and trying to prevent my own.<br \/>\nSo, the question <i>then<\/i> becomes, how do I integrate the new features I want into the existing site?  I think I found my project for the weekend&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am suddenly reconsidering the design trajectory I&#8217;d been taking for my new weblog. Why? I was futzing around on my current personal site, looking for a piece of content, and I realized that with a couple of small exceptions, I really liked the look and feel of that site, even better than the new [&hellip;]<\/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-870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4e5QR-e2","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/870","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=870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/870\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}