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No posts for over a month because in my mind, BLOG@STEFANGEENS.COM<\/span> had aquired lame-duck status qua design. This involves a non-trivial amount of manual labor porting over comments, as well as media, and it is not yet done, so no complaining if your acid-lined gems of old have temporarily disappeared.
 
Also check out Text Pattern<\/a>, another promising content management system for blogs.<\/span>Ever since I had decided I was going to change my content management engine from Blogger<\/a> to Movable Type<\/a> I saw little use for adding new writing to a soon-to-be obsolete system. Also, I needed a break. Not from blogging, but from the constraints that the blogging format was beginning to impose on me — or so I felt.<\/p>\n

So I redesigned the site. Site design is to me what I imagine gardening is to some people. It just pleases me to do it.<\/p>\n

For this latest iteration of BLOG@STEFANGEENS.COM<\/span>, I decided to focus on readability. Specifically, I hankered after the simplicity of the page in a book: black, serifed text on white space. My inspiration came from Robert Bringhurst’s excellent The Elements of Typographic Style<\/i><\/a>, which has become the typographer’s bible since it was first published 10 years ago. Question: What is the ideal amount of characters on a line of text? Answer: 66<\/font><\/span>It is an immense pleasure to read, because it constantly practices what it preaches.<\/p>\n

But Elements<\/i> gave me another idea. It uses marginalia<\/a> copiously, to great effect. For the web, marginalia seems a natural addition: It breaks off from the narrative’s one-dimensional thread, but does not quite amount to the radical break of a link. It’s an extra half dimension of freedom, allowing short diversions that would otherwise be heaved into brackets, distracting from the flow of the text.<\/p>\n

1.618034<\/font><\/a>… or 1 plus the square root of 5, divided by 2.<\/span>How wide to make the marginalia? I went with the Golden Mean, that naturally pleasing ratio. We’ll see if it works. This site will need a few weeks to mature yet. But welcome back in the meantime. I have plenty to write about.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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