1. Here's why blogs need minimalism. They're cluttered. Mine's cluttered. My sidebar has lots of stuff you don't care about, and that crowds out the stuff you find important. Realizing this, I've decided to remove some things and see if anyone notices.
2. Here are five ways to make your blog more readable. Focus, brevity, legibility, plainness, and harmony are the principles that stood out to me.
I've also just discovered Instabloke (grab his feed, too!), who shares 10 reasons why people might not like your blog. His main points as I see them: Your blog should be original, legible, fast-loading, uncluttered, conversational, personal, fresh and focused. Notice the similarities?
Moral: No one likes a cluttered blog. (Or do they? They shouldn't.) Dump the verbosity, dump the pointless bling and make your business blog more minimalist. Let me know what you've done to reduce clutter and simplify your blog. I'm off to trim some fat off of this blog.
Hi Easton. We are anxiously awaiting the arrival of Basil. We have lots of sites for him to see and a bit of PHP code for him to clean up.
I don't know if you were aware of this but I wrote the original article on "minimalist web design" many years ago. It contains some famous quotes like "A picture is not worth 1000 words on the Internet. The information is in the text."
Posted by: Bill Austin | August 27, 2006 10:53 AM | Permalink to Comment