글쓰기 and 디자인 have always been two passions of mine. When someone first approached me with a 글쓰기 opportunity for their blog, I was shocked. It hadn’t crossed my mind for a moment that the two could be brought together harmoniously. I still remember 글쓰기 that 기사 and building my first brainstorm of topics. I found myself asking, "What makes a good article?"
But, to hell with good articles. Anyone can write a good article. I wanted something that would floor everyone–that would make everyone say, "Who the heck is this guy, and why haven’t I read his stuff before?"
I’m always trying to take things to the 다음 level, so I asked, "What makes an amazing article?"
Content is King
That’s right. We’ve heard it time and time again. As designers, it can be something that frustrates us. We make superior aesthetic creations for our clients, but we don’t have much say in what they do with it afterwards. Generally speaking, it isn’t our job to write the content, even though the content is what can make 또는 break the website.
Users will check out a site once and bask in its beauty, but the content is what will make them come back.
Know your readers
It’s very helpful to pick a subject for your writing. Know what your users like to read, and pay attention to trending topics in the industry to know what your readers are going to be interested in reading.
Original content
It can be frustrating to come up with a topic, only to 검색 it in 구글 and find a similar 기사 already written. Since everyone and their pet retriever is blogging, we find topics that have been "rehashed" over and over. As a reader, I find myself hitting my head wondering what some people are thinking when they write 기사 that have clearly been written before (sometimes even with the same title).
Suffice to say that since so many people are blogging now (especially in such a large community as design), it is very difficult to find topics that haven’t been talked about.
But this is our job as writers – we need to find topics that our readers will be interested in, and write about them in a creative way. Sure, our style of 글쓰기 will greatly affect an article’s originality, but we need to attack points from different angles.
This doesn’t mean taking an 기사 about "How To Get a Ketchup Stain Out of Your White Shirt" and changing it to "How NOT To Get a Ketchup Stain Out of Your White Shirt", but figuring out different ways to get that stain out, and elaborating on content and points 당신 thought weren’t emphasized enough in 이전 articles.
Style and Flow
Style is something very personal to writers. I find myself 읽기 content of several writers not based on what they’re writing, but based on their style.
As a writer, the first thing 당신 need to create is your style and the personality that comes through your writing. This should often come easy as 당신 write, and it will build over time, but the style 당신 create will greatly determine who will come back.
There are a lot of well thought-out 기사 out there, but some of them are too all over the place for me. Make sure that in your 글쓰기 you’re moving from point to point smoothly. Keep on topic, and make every 기사 a story.
Be ready for criticism
Know what you’re talking about, and edit, edit, edit. I like to think of every 기사 I put out as important as a legal document. 디자인 is such a broad topic that not everyone knows everything, and everyone has different experiences. So don’t be surprised when someone leaves a 코멘트 that leaves 당신 baffled as to how 당신 should respond.
After my final round of edits and before publishing, I like to look over my 기사 in a different way. Back in high school, I was a key debater on my school’s team. Our coach had always taught us to look over our speeches as a competitor, and to find holes in what we were saying. If we find holes, we patched them up. If something we said was debatable, we made sure we knew how to refute points. This way, we wouldn’t be (as) baffled when they picked at one of our points.
Every blogger who has been around a while has had this comment, but we all learn from it. 당신 find that your audience has a voice and opinions as well, and 당신 need to make sure that what you’re saying is politically correct in every way. Not only this, but 당신 have to be ready to 토론 the points in your article. Be ready to know what you’re talking about so 당신 don’t look like an idiot.
디자인 is the Shiny 옷, 가운 and Crown
I can’t take credit for this headline – DesignBump wrote a nice little 기사 on what 디자인 is in relation to content that I think 당신 should read as well. If you’re proud of your content, make sure that it’s looking how 당신 did when 당신 went to your high school prom.
Typography
I find myself moving through different fetishes in design, and I’ve been stuck for the past few months on typography. So much so, that I’ll go into a website’s CSS just to find out what line-height and letter-spacing people are using to make their content 더 많이 readable. There are a few principles we should meet when dealing with typography for the web:
Maintain a hierarchy
We should all know the difference between serif and sans-serif fonts. Sans-serif fonts should be used for titles, and serif fonts should only be used for body text. Make sure that 당신 create a hierarchy of titles that uses the proper font and also visually breaks down the content. No one likes big blocks of content. Having contrasting typefaces will help clearly distinguish a hierarchy.
Maintain structure
Make sure that your typefaces are legible and your content is readable. Generally speaking, a measure (or line of text) should be contained within 2-3 alphabets (or the equivalent to 52-78 characters including spaces). When you’re designing, using grid systems can help heaps with making sure that everything is readable.
Adjust your CSS accordingly
당신 should always adjust your font size (using relative sizes like ems and percentages) accordingly, paying close attention to your line-height and the color you’re using. Since most websites have blocks of unindented text, 당신 should create extra padding at the bottom of your paragraphs to compensate for this.
Line-heights should generally be set to 1.5em including the approximate pixel-value to the bottom of paragraphs to maintain consistency.
Using font styling appropriately
As we’ll discuss in the 다음 section, large blocks of text are very boring. Use font styling such as bold and italic/oblique to emphasize points in your content.
Graphics
읽기 blocks of text are boring. We’re designers, so we have the ability to go into Photoshop and throw something even simple together to break up our blocks of text. Generally speaking, readers of online magazines like to skim content. Having interesting content using the above along with interesting 이미지 will interest them in 읽기 what you’ve written. If you’re good with graphs, use graphs as well to layout statistical information.
What do 당신 think makes an web content?
The 디자인 community is a very tough community to write for and hold an audience with so many other great blogs out there. I don’t know about some of you, but I sometimes come across 기사 from the other side of the Internet that is still stuck in a 1990′s-style 디자인 with amazing content, and I can’t read it. However, for some reason I’ll read garbage 게시됨 on some nicer-designed websites just because I think the typography is pretty. Therefore, the right balance of content and 디자인 is what will create a truly amazing article.
Here are some 기사 to get 당신 started on improving your web content:
The Death of the Boring Blog Post (via Smashing Magazine)
글쓰기 User Friendly Content (via UX Booth)
A Guide To 글쓰기 Effectively About 디자인 (via Tripping Words)
But, to hell with good articles. Anyone can write a good article. I wanted something that would floor everyone–that would make everyone say, "Who the heck is this guy, and why haven’t I read his stuff before?"
I’m always trying to take things to the 다음 level, so I asked, "What makes an amazing article?"
Content is King
That’s right. We’ve heard it time and time again. As designers, it can be something that frustrates us. We make superior aesthetic creations for our clients, but we don’t have much say in what they do with it afterwards. Generally speaking, it isn’t our job to write the content, even though the content is what can make 또는 break the website.
Users will check out a site once and bask in its beauty, but the content is what will make them come back.
Know your readers
It’s very helpful to pick a subject for your writing. Know what your users like to read, and pay attention to trending topics in the industry to know what your readers are going to be interested in reading.
Original content
It can be frustrating to come up with a topic, only to 검색 it in 구글 and find a similar 기사 already written. Since everyone and their pet retriever is blogging, we find topics that have been "rehashed" over and over. As a reader, I find myself hitting my head wondering what some people are thinking when they write 기사 that have clearly been written before (sometimes even with the same title).
Suffice to say that since so many people are blogging now (especially in such a large community as design), it is very difficult to find topics that haven’t been talked about.
But this is our job as writers – we need to find topics that our readers will be interested in, and write about them in a creative way. Sure, our style of 글쓰기 will greatly affect an article’s originality, but we need to attack points from different angles.
This doesn’t mean taking an 기사 about "How To Get a Ketchup Stain Out of Your White Shirt" and changing it to "How NOT To Get a Ketchup Stain Out of Your White Shirt", but figuring out different ways to get that stain out, and elaborating on content and points 당신 thought weren’t emphasized enough in 이전 articles.
Style and Flow
Style is something very personal to writers. I find myself 읽기 content of several writers not based on what they’re writing, but based on their style.
As a writer, the first thing 당신 need to create is your style and the personality that comes through your writing. This should often come easy as 당신 write, and it will build over time, but the style 당신 create will greatly determine who will come back.
There are a lot of well thought-out 기사 out there, but some of them are too all over the place for me. Make sure that in your 글쓰기 you’re moving from point to point smoothly. Keep on topic, and make every 기사 a story.
Be ready for criticism
Know what you’re talking about, and edit, edit, edit. I like to think of every 기사 I put out as important as a legal document. 디자인 is such a broad topic that not everyone knows everything, and everyone has different experiences. So don’t be surprised when someone leaves a 코멘트 that leaves 당신 baffled as to how 당신 should respond.
After my final round of edits and before publishing, I like to look over my 기사 in a different way. Back in high school, I was a key debater on my school’s team. Our coach had always taught us to look over our speeches as a competitor, and to find holes in what we were saying. If we find holes, we patched them up. If something we said was debatable, we made sure we knew how to refute points. This way, we wouldn’t be (as) baffled when they picked at one of our points.
Every blogger who has been around a while has had this comment, but we all learn from it. 당신 find that your audience has a voice and opinions as well, and 당신 need to make sure that what you’re saying is politically correct in every way. Not only this, but 당신 have to be ready to 토론 the points in your article. Be ready to know what you’re talking about so 당신 don’t look like an idiot.
디자인 is the Shiny 옷, 가운 and Crown
I can’t take credit for this headline – DesignBump wrote a nice little 기사 on what 디자인 is in relation to content that I think 당신 should read as well. If you’re proud of your content, make sure that it’s looking how 당신 did when 당신 went to your high school prom.
Typography
I find myself moving through different fetishes in design, and I’ve been stuck for the past few months on typography. So much so, that I’ll go into a website’s CSS just to find out what line-height and letter-spacing people are using to make their content 더 많이 readable. There are a few principles we should meet when dealing with typography for the web:
Maintain a hierarchy
We should all know the difference between serif and sans-serif fonts. Sans-serif fonts should be used for titles, and serif fonts should only be used for body text. Make sure that 당신 create a hierarchy of titles that uses the proper font and also visually breaks down the content. No one likes big blocks of content. Having contrasting typefaces will help clearly distinguish a hierarchy.
Maintain structure
Make sure that your typefaces are legible and your content is readable. Generally speaking, a measure (or line of text) should be contained within 2-3 alphabets (or the equivalent to 52-78 characters including spaces). When you’re designing, using grid systems can help heaps with making sure that everything is readable.
Adjust your CSS accordingly
당신 should always adjust your font size (using relative sizes like ems and percentages) accordingly, paying close attention to your line-height and the color you’re using. Since most websites have blocks of unindented text, 당신 should create extra padding at the bottom of your paragraphs to compensate for this.
Line-heights should generally be set to 1.5em including the approximate pixel-value to the bottom of paragraphs to maintain consistency.
Using font styling appropriately
As we’ll discuss in the 다음 section, large blocks of text are very boring. Use font styling such as bold and italic/oblique to emphasize points in your content.
Graphics
읽기 blocks of text are boring. We’re designers, so we have the ability to go into Photoshop and throw something even simple together to break up our blocks of text. Generally speaking, readers of online magazines like to skim content. Having interesting content using the above along with interesting 이미지 will interest them in 읽기 what you’ve written. If you’re good with graphs, use graphs as well to layout statistical information.
What do 당신 think makes an web content?
The 디자인 community is a very tough community to write for and hold an audience with so many other great blogs out there. I don’t know about some of you, but I sometimes come across 기사 from the other side of the Internet that is still stuck in a 1990′s-style 디자인 with amazing content, and I can’t read it. However, for some reason I’ll read garbage 게시됨 on some nicer-designed websites just because I think the typography is pretty. Therefore, the right balance of content and 디자인 is what will create a truly amazing article.
Here are some 기사 to get 당신 started on improving your web content:
The Death of the Boring Blog Post (via Smashing Magazine)
글쓰기 User Friendly Content (via UX Booth)
A Guide To 글쓰기 Effectively About 디자인 (via Tripping Words)
I NEED inspiration for this book. I cant say why, because it will ruin the last book but the school has been rebuilt,and theres a new gardening class, and Haru-Kun, Kariko-Kun, and Shimura-Chan are falling into love, could Kariko finaly fall for Haru, 또는 could it be Haikuga-Kun? Haru could have his 심장 torn into pieces, 또는 turned into gold. And Shimura, being the only lesbian in the school could have problems with 사랑 too. Karuga-Chan (a new character introduced as a Japenese girl found lying on the 바닷가, 비치 after a violent storm) changes all of that. Life when thrive this 년 in Dojenskei Koukou (Dojenskei High School). All these 질문 and 더 많이 will be answered in the garden of Hinjou, the Garden Classroom. Be waiting, Both the first chapter of the first and 초 book are being worked on. (PLEASE give me good names for the third and fourht book, and the main name for the 초 series, such as Burning Passion Book One: The Flame. (oo, I might use that) Byes!)
The Man With No Eyes Collection (6): Dream
A crystallized life, on the bright TV screen,
But I’ve finally broken away from the dream,
And into the warm embrace of your esteem.
The stage that I left disappears from my mind,
Like suddenly being engulfed 의해 sunshine,
I am truly alive, for the very first time,
All at once, let me sing, let me cry!
‘Til it bursts,
From my lungs, like a child,
Let me smile ‘til it hurts!
Let the blue of the morning
Strike my tearful eyes,
I still don’t know how,
I still don’t know why,
(I still fear this life may yet be a lie,)
But even if this world is the true dream, I want to play out this beautiful scene.
Here it is, the last in the Man With No Eyes Collection! I wanted to complete this on a pleasant note, give the guy some mercy.
A crystallized life, on the bright TV screen,
But I’ve finally broken away from the dream,
And into the warm embrace of your esteem.
The stage that I left disappears from my mind,
Like suddenly being engulfed 의해 sunshine,
I am truly alive, for the very first time,
All at once, let me sing, let me cry!
‘Til it bursts,
From my lungs, like a child,
Let me smile ‘til it hurts!
Let the blue of the morning
Strike my tearful eyes,
I still don’t know how,
I still don’t know why,
(I still fear this life may yet be a lie,)
But even if this world is the true dream, I want to play out this beautiful scene.
Here it is, the last in the Man With No Eyes Collection! I wanted to complete this on a pleasant note, give the guy some mercy.
I just started going on the path where my life had no light. I missed everyone from our school who graduated, and I really had many amazing 프렌즈 there. 프렌즈 who gave me memories that lasted forever...friends who helped me out when things got bad...friends who were always there for me. I know, however, that they will always continue to be in my heart, even as they went away from me. If they never come back, they will still have left hand prints on my 심장 that will never be washed away. Life without the light makes me feel so lonely...like a vagabond on the streets with no home...like an eagle with no prey...like me with no one to cry with. However sad this situation I find myself in...I still know that life will go on...and I must continue to strive to be the best I can be. Even without the warmth of my 프렌즈 close by, I know that they will always be 의해 my side even if they are not with me. All my 프렌즈 are the light in my life.
The noise,
buzzing and buzzing in my ears.
It's just not right,
당신 think 당신 are so bright,
saying 당신 buzz because 당신 care.
But it's so unfair.
I don't need your concern,
the best way 당신 can show 당신 care,
is to leave me alone.
Why can't 당신 understand?
Have 당신 tried to understand?
Do I really expect 당신 to understand?
This is not a teenage problem,
the excuse 당신 uses so often,
This is about my freedom.
당신 think I don't know anything,
당신 think I am naive and innocent.
But things are so different.
당신 think because 당신 are older,
당신 know 더 많이 than we do,
That’s not true.
The world has changed,
We are not the fairy tales that sing,
we are the ones who could take our lives in a blink.
No, 당신 are lying to yourself,
blocking the truth that would make 당신 knelt
buzzing and buzzing in my ears.
It's just not right,
당신 think 당신 are so bright,
saying 당신 buzz because 당신 care.
But it's so unfair.
I don't need your concern,
the best way 당신 can show 당신 care,
is to leave me alone.
Why can't 당신 understand?
Have 당신 tried to understand?
Do I really expect 당신 to understand?
This is not a teenage problem,
the excuse 당신 uses so often,
This is about my freedom.
당신 think I don't know anything,
당신 think I am naive and innocent.
But things are so different.
당신 think because 당신 are older,
당신 know 더 많이 than we do,
That’s not true.
The world has changed,
We are not the fairy tales that sing,
we are the ones who could take our lives in a blink.
No, 당신 are lying to yourself,
blocking the truth that would make 당신 knelt
I look out
Into the crowd
Looking for you
Hoping to see you
I search
And search
But can’t find
Your face
In all the crowd
The one person
I wanted to see
I couldn’t see
I was left
With my disappointment
As I begin to think
Of all the times
You’ve broken your word
But then
I should have known
당신 never stayed
Unless 당신 profited
당신 never were
A real dad
Never has been
Never will
I look out
In the crowd
Hoping against hope
That 당신 will be there
But I shouldn't even bother
I'm a nobody
Someone 당신 never loved
Someone 당신 don't even know
Maybe someday
I'll learn
That all I get from you
Is broken promises
Half truths
And utter disappointments
So now I say good bye to it all
The hurt and anger
My disappointment
And you
Into the crowd
Looking for you
Hoping to see you
I search
And search
But can’t find
Your face
In all the crowd
The one person
I wanted to see
I couldn’t see
I was left
With my disappointment
As I begin to think
Of all the times
You’ve broken your word
But then
I should have known
당신 never stayed
Unless 당신 profited
당신 never were
A real dad
Never has been
Never will
I look out
In the crowd
Hoping against hope
That 당신 will be there
But I shouldn't even bother
I'm a nobody
Someone 당신 never loved
Someone 당신 don't even know
Maybe someday
I'll learn
That all I get from you
Is broken promises
Half truths
And utter disappointments
So now I say good bye to it all
The hurt and anger
My disappointment
And you