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Designing a responsive, Retina-friendly site

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Re: Designing a responsive, Retina-friendly site

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Post by Hawkee »

I began thinking single column. The content should be the star of the show. No sidebars or extraneous post metadata that gets in the way of reading.

I'm happy to hear you confirm this for me. I've been removing the sidebar from most pages of my site for the exact same reason. Not to mention that a sidebar generally only occupies the first screen you see. Once you start scrolling you're left with empty space below and content that's thinner than it should be.

Re: Designing a responsive, Retina-friendly site

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Post by PStamatiou »

mediumdeviation wrote: post #10

Just looking through the source of the site, it seems that whatever CMS you're using is inserting tags everywhere, including around the opening and closing tags: http://i.imgur.com/RkoFP.png . It's also causing the page to fail validation (ignoring the errors about unknown meta tags): http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fpaulstamatiou...

yeah jekyll is going ham on my new lines. I have been meaning to look into that. It's markdown but I only use html. Need to find a way to have it not use markdown (blasphemy, I know).

Re: Designing a responsive, Retina-friendly site

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Post by PStamatiou »

zinssmeister wrote: post #14

Paul you sure seem to like the word 'yet'.

Thanks -- this is actually helpful. I want to be more cognizant of my writing style, I have a lot of room to get better. I often start sentences with "But" and use the same modifiers (However, Unfortunately, etc) quite a bit.

When I write I usually start with a big, unfiltered brain dump, then some formatting and then a proofread. But the proofread is in chunks of reading, fixing, reading etc so I never get the entire flow of it to catch these i-just-used-the-same-word-in-the-last-3-paragraphs issues.

Re: Designing a responsive, Retina-friendly site

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Post by zinssmeister »

PStamatiou wrote: post #15
zinssmeister wrote: post #14

Paul you sure seem to like the word 'yet'.

Thanks -- this is actually helpful. I want to be more cognizant of my writing style, I have a lot of room to get better. I often start sentences with "But" and use the same modifiers (However, Unfortunately, etc) quite a bit. When I write I usually start with a big, unfiltered brain dump, then some formatting and then a proofread. But the proofread is in chunks of reading, fixing, reading etc so I never get the entir…

overall I think your writing style actually is very personal. We have never met, but after reading, I feel like I've just had a conversation with you.
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