Playing Around with Blogger

Templates and Presentation

I have just had a great deal of fun playing around with the options available for presenting this blog and I now realize how much sattisfaction the designers have who put this kind of program together for us to dabble with.  I say dabble, but really the way information is presented is extremely important.  Good design has great significance in the physical world of the printed word and image, where much "invisible" work is done to make a book, magazine, newspaper, etc more successful as a vehicle of information and ideas.    It has just as much if not more significance in the digital world, where there are new challenges since the generally two dimensions of the printed word and image (perhaps 3 for pop up books?) are given the extra virtual dimensions afforded by hypertext.  This added complexity increases the possibility for both great sattisfaction and great confusion, so it has to be handled with excellent underlying design principles.

Today I'm presenting my bog in a "dynamic view" format......just for the fun of it.  It's more eye catching, but it may also be more confusing since much is hidden as the result of the re-arrangement of material to  make the view more unique.  And the viewer gets to interract with it too, choosing which view to assume and having to "hunt" more for all elements of the blog.

Tomorrow I may well change back and this particular blog will be puzzling.....but here it is and check it out Blogger design dynamic template

And.....just to give this blog an image to add to the "snap shot view" I will give you an historic landmark which was and is a favorite of mine, just a few miles from my home in South Yorkshire among the pit heaps and chemical works......a piece of the rural landscape that could be from "Downton Abbey".....the longest house in the UK.