The death of the (boring) blog post Options

[mipadi]

I found this interesting article that discusses the concept of a "blogazine". The central idea is that a blog is laid out more like a magazine, so the layout of each post changes to match the content of the post. I found it interesting because I'm considering launching a new site in the coming months that will feature a more journalistic-style of writing, and I'm thinking of taking this layout route.

One of the writers/designers discussed was Jason Santa Maria, who has a pretty interesting blog, both in terms of content and layout. Here are some examples:



Another one I liked was Dustin Curtis, whose work looks like this:



There was one quote that stood out to me in the article:

What if a print magazine used the same template for every article? It would be pretty boring, no?

What do you think? Should a blog post look the same on every page, or should each post be styled appropriately?

[HeartOfPandora]

I do like sites a f*ck lot more when each and every page doesn't look the same. No idea how you'd do it with something like WP, but hand coding would be easy.

That blog by Dustin Curis = fantastic and amazing to no end.