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First Experiments in Web Design
- jmduke 15y agoNot to underscore the value of self-creation (I remade my own personal webfront recently using Django, and nothing's a more valuable coding experience than making something you use yourself) but I think the primary advantage of CMSes like Wordpress and especially Tumblr to designers and developers aren't the bundled, predefined designs but the ease of publication: you can absolutely rip apart a tumblog's design (or even create one from scratch: http://www.tumblr.com/docs/en/custom_themes http://www.tumblr.com/docs/en/custom_themes) but you have simple, easy methods of creating and disseminating content.
- lihaoyi 15y agoIn a way, part of the point of the whole exercise was the self-creation. Setting up a personal website from scratch has a lot of pieces, and graphic-design is something I had never touched in my life. I thought it was quite cool to see the designs improve as I iterated.