Comments on: Have You Been Making the Same Mistake as Me?

By: Adam

Adam — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 16:49:06 +0000

Thanks for the comment, Kenji. The “sealed packages of advice” is a pretty good description of what I was doing here.

In terms of layout, while I do think layout and UX is important to a site, I think it’s too common and too easy for people to take the easy way out and just try to slap a new wrapper on the same content and hope that fixes the problem. Lipstick on a pig doesn’t make it any less a pig!

(That being said, I’m not calling my site a pig).

Thanks again, Kenji.

By: Kenji Crosland

Kenji Crosland — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 15:55:49 +0000

I think you’re probably right. I’ve enjoyed your articles some time now but I’ve noticed that it may have been difficult to make a meaningful comment about them. I think the main reason why is because many of your articles were complete, sealed packages of advice that didn’t leave much room for discussion or debate. Good advice yes, but not a spark for discussion.

Of course, there could be other things going on. Maybe there’s something you could do in the layout to make the discussion more the star of the show.