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1. Post Types Starting with some ideas for my blog design which I'm finally getting around to. Interestingly, I actually started this within a Dribbble sized blank doc - J... April 26, 2011

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2. An Altered Me No offense taken, I appreciate somebody actually critiquing - that's what this is for! Applied some negative letter spacing and removed the highli... January 18, 2011

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3. Just Me A new direction in the colour scheme for my personal blog design. This is the closest I'm likely to come to liking a 'dark text on a light background' design... January 17, 2011

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4. Blog Logo Starting a new blog to consolidate the others that failed. I had previously split them up to cover separate interests but never got around to writing on all ... January 04, 2011

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5. Altered Date As advised, I lowered stroke opacity and then inner shadow opacity to match. I think it does look better. It's hard trying to keep things as simple as possi... April 13, 2010

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6. Article Excerpt A rough draft of article excerpts. Much change to come no doubt! April 13, 2010

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7. Simple Nav Slowly but surely building onto the blog design. Not quite sure if I'll keep the mobile link though - may just auto serve it but put it in there in case I ca... April 11, 2010

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8. Hoes At The Door The beginnings of the design for my blog. I have a Daring Fireball type of simplicity in mind - minus all of that awesomeness obviously! April 10, 2010

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9. Minimal Graphics Started mocking up excerpt view for articles with some meta. Again, trying to keep things minimal and clean, hence the small and unobtrusive icons. February 13, 2010

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10. Palatino Time As per the feedback, I've altered the logo shadowing and changed out the intro font to Palatino Linotype to allow for a heavier weight. Better/worse? February 12, 2010

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11. Pixelated Inversion If you follow me on the twitter you may have seen this particular tweet about an aversion to light text on a dark background and my habit of inverting. This... February 12, 2010

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12. Legible Test For Goudy I increased the size here up to 22px and then noticed the smoothing was the cause of some aliasing within Safari as Chrome wasn't see the same problems. Turn... February 07, 2010

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13. Opinions - I Want Them! I have decided on Sorts Mill Goudy for use with my article titles and various sections around the site due to the font-face availability and as an extra bonu... February 07, 2010

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14. Pixelated Sentinel Just playing around with ideas for the upcoming redesign of my blog. I'm trying to steer away from too much colour with this one and the main focus is going ... February 06, 2010

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