Designed.nu new blog about new in graphic design

[resurepus]

hey, just wanted to share the link to our new blog http://designed.nu it is quite new and it is only taking shape, so don't worry, it will improve both visually and content-wise. and to do that we'd like to ask for your input. What each of you would be interested in finding on such a blog?

We see it as a spot where you can find all new and cool things that happened in graphic and product design. And things that are not directly related to graphics, but which might interest designers.

So, what are those things exactly that would interest you personally? What would make you come to http://designed.nu every day to check for updates?

[tomas.brolen]

Looks great and what I can tell it's aimed for greatness so i've added it to my late-night-reading-feed-list

Good luck with it and just let me know if you guys need any help.

[resurepus]

Hey, Tomas,
yes, the ambitions are huge indeed!

Yes, help is needed indeed. I'll PM you about becoming a contributor for designed.

Looks great and what I can tell it's aimed for greatness so i've added it to my late-night-reading-feed-list

Good luck with it and just let me know if you guys need any help.

[tomas.brolen]

Two things I noticed regarding the feeds (rss).

1. The link under every post "If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed." contains the url to a wordpress themes blog's rss-feed and NOT to designed.nu's feed. The url in the footer is however correct.

2. When subscribing to the feed (the correct one ) you only get the posts that are on the start-page. Most likely it's because theres a limit on how many posts to show on the page, and there's no pagination options enabled or inserted. If you don't wish to add pagination and keep the limit on the first page maybe you can edit the feed-page to show all posts.

/ Tomas

[resurepus]

Two things I noticed regarding the feeds (rss).

1. The link under every post "If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed." contains the url to a wordpress themes blog's rss-feed and NOT to designed.nu's feed. The url in the footer is however correct.

2. When subscribing to the feed (the correct one ) you only get the posts that are on the start-page. Most likely it's because theres a limit on how many posts to show on the page, and there's no pagination options enabled or inserted. If you don't wish to add pagination and keep the limit on the first page maybe you can edit the feed-page to show all posts.

/ Tomas

1. thanks for the tip. I will fix it later today.

2. do you think it is really worth adding all the posts to the feed? after all the new subscribers won't probably look at all the old posts and will be more interested in following the new ones.

I have changed the limit to 20 and changed to show only summary instead of the full posts.

[tomas.brolen]

I tend to browse through all the headers on the feeds I add, but thats me.

But... I really suggest adding a pagination to the site. Only to have the option to find old posts via categories and monthly archives is in my opinion a way of losing readers, and all measures of minimizing that without cluttering down the site is a profit. A pagination just take 1 row at the bottom of each page.

Also to go back to #1. I would remove the rss-link below each post and perhaps add a bigger link at the top of the sidebar or perhaps integrated into the header section instead.

But the whole rss discussion here is of minor importance to the site in general, overall it's great