Week 8 articles

I found the Designing with Grids article to be so inspirational...I wish I wasn't at work (shhh) so I could sit down and sketch some more layout ideas for my final project! In general, I found I responded to many of the blog designs listed on this page. I kept one in particular, Erskine, for my morgue file because I love the top header graphic. There was a similar element in one of the examples in the Beautiful Web Design book that I also kept in my morgue file.

I'm thinking about how I can alter the layout of the blog section of my online portfolio, while keeping the look and feel relatively consistent with the rest of the site. Blogs definitely require elements (such as another column that lists archive, tags, etc.) that the portfolio pages will not.

I need to go back and review some of our past reading on typography, because I got a little lost while reading the CSS Typography article, mainly in the sections regarding type size and measurements. I'm very familiar with the parts on developing scannable text due to my job as a web writer.