In the way of design, I think you need more white space between the ending of a section and the next title heading. That might help separate. I thought the move from having the whole “story” on the main page was a mistake since that was always what I was most interested in.

Recent comments was always less interesting to me because I was prone to click through if I saw the number was different than to look there for updates.

Cycling to the top is helpful, but also disorienting because the site has no consistency–at least that’s how Matt’s blog made me feel. It was like a disorganized mess.

The problem with blogs is we just want to put too much in too little space and still make it look pretty. Perhaps the tabs at the top are just for that. To separate and leave the grey “update box” for telling which tabs should be clicked on, but leave the main page for the story and a picture if its relevant.

The other alternative is to move towards a newspaper style that keeps everything new as blurbs in the first screen with links, but that’s just cluttered and you’re not a newspaper.

Those are my uncensored, unproofed thoughts, hope that helps.

Thats just a really deep way of saying, ‘I have a job that makes me think.’

A project is just another job. You have nothing, or very little when it starts and a product at the end. It actually kinda bothers me that it is being though of differently.

Project Management is an interesting topic, how to better orginize and deal with many different aspects of a project all being worked on by different people that may or may not ever meet (or even speak). But evenw ith all the advances in project management, what a project is has never changed. Its just something that needs built or done.

Mike.

John Mac’s book: I might pick it up, but he might be too modern for me. Leadership used to be a heavily hierarchical thing where a powerful, central figure casts a vision from the top to the underlings. This, I think, is how a lot of churches work, particularly non-denoms. The latest approach–and Leonard Sweet articulates it wonderfully in Called to Lead–is that leadership is a process of engaging with people, learning who they are and what they want to be, and helping them get there. Sweet calls this “musicking,” by likening the process to orchastrating a choir or symphony.

Whitespace: are you referring to the homepage? I thought the heavy underline under the headers helped to splice up the content. Regarding moving the whole content off the homepage, well, you’re damned if you do, and damned if you don’t. Confer:

http://www.kennsarah.net/archives/2003/06/24/hanging_with_derek/index.php#c001081

When the plan became maintaining several “blogs” (photos, story, links, consuming), it made sense to put them all up in summary form on the homepage. Arguably, there are only two types of active content, links & blogs–which is probably why this design feels so unnatural.

Recent comments are for people who fly in from Google and drop a comment on a random post–this just helps me make sure they’re not spam.

I definitely agree that a problem with designing /anything/ is adding too many features at the expense of usability and simplicity. Good design strikes a balance between the two and the process of designing this blog has been helpful to find that balance. Thanks for the feedback!

hahahahahahahaha. That was a joke. Well, I thought it was funny, knowing the source it came from and his sarcasm.

I like it, it’s simple- and being that I don’t expect you to update often, it serves the purpose.