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Snooze. Paddy here has a good point, but his delivery is a cheap rip off of Dustin Curtis's "custom design every entry" blog. And his design skills are sub-par

Snooze. Paddy here has a good point, but his delivery is a cheap rip off of Dustin Curtis's "custom design every entry" blog. And his design skills are sub-par at best. Throwing paragraphs around with absolute positioning is in no way groundbreaking.

ryanwaggoner 17y ago
You know, dcurtis didn't invent the idea of a unique design for each article. Unless I'm mistaken, he refers to his site as his "blogazine", which kind of implies that he took his inspiration from something else, doesn't it? And for what it's worth, I thought the design was great. But even if it wasn't, at least the guy is creating stuff. What have you created?
- duttonkj 17y ago
  I've seen live journal entries evolve into weblogs, wordpress templates, tumblers, and now apparently blogazines. One glance at iampaddy and i noticed enough characteristics that made me immediately think of dcurtis. Dcurtis probably took some inspiration from Jason Santa Maria (who started the current blogazine craze) but made it his own distinct design. iampaddy has some work to do before he can say that. Yes, the guy is creating stuff, but that doesn't give him a free pass on criticism. Without criticism how will he improve? He can go to his parents for blind encouragement.
  - ryanwaggoner 17y ago
    Criticism is not inherently valuable. You offered nothing of substance, only the opinion that his site was a "cheap rip-off" and that his design skills were "sub-par at best". "It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat." ~Teddy Roosevelt
    - duttonkj 17y ago
      In retrospect, my choice of words was pretty harsh. A few people posted similar observations on the thread without attacking. Thanks for pointing that out and I will try to add some substance if/when I critique in the future.
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ryanwaggoner 17y ago

You know, dcurtis didn't invent the idea of a unique design for each article. Unless I'm mistaken, he refers to his site as his "blogazine", which kind of implies that he took his inspiration from something else, doesn't it? And for what it's worth, I thought the design was great. But even if it wasn't, at least the guy is creating stuff. What have you created?

duttonkj 17y ago
I've seen live journal entries evolve into weblogs, wordpress templates, tumblers, and now apparently blogazines. One glance at iampaddy and i noticed enough characteristics that made me immediately think of dcurtis. Dcurtis probably took some inspiration from Jason Santa Maria (who started the current blogazine craze) but made it his own distinct design. iampaddy has some work to do before he can say that. Yes, the guy is creating stuff, but that doesn't give him a free pass on criticism. Without criticism how will he improve? He can go to his parents for blind encouragement.
- ryanwaggoner 17y ago
  Criticism is not inherently valuable. You offered nothing of substance, only the opinion that his site was a "cheap rip-off" and that his design skills were "sub-par at best". "It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat." ~Teddy Roosevelt
  - duttonkj 17y ago
    In retrospect, my choice of words was pretty harsh. A few people posted similar observations on the thread without attacking. Thanks for pointing that out and I will try to add some substance if/when I critique in the future.
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