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Oct 19th / Tuesday / '10
web trends that suck: gridded blogs ok. i get it. we are all super clever and figured out how to make a blog show up like a grid. great job guys! we are now one step closer to forcing the internet to behave like a newspaper. i don’t care how awesome you are at white space or minimalism, your grid still gives me a headache. your grid can’t give me a sense of time or even a place to rest my eyes. your grid has no focus. everything is tiny and cramped, and i bet you’ve had to make sacrifices and edits while posting to ‘fit the format’. grids constrain your freedom and display a neatly-styled mess of content to your users. what do you guys think about these kinds of blog layouts?

web trends that suck: gridded blogs

ok. i get it. we are all super clever and figured out how to make a blog show up like a grid. great job guys! we are now one step closer to forcing the internet to behave like a newspaper.

i don’t care how awesome you are at white space or minimalism, your grid still gives me a headache. your grid can’t give me a sense of time or even a place to rest my eyes. your grid has no focus. everything is tiny and cramped, and i bet you’ve had to make sacrifices and edits while posting to ‘fit the format’. grids constrain your freedom and display a neatly-styled mess of content to your users.

what do you guys think about these kinds of blog layouts?

  1. playitbackward answered: I really like the idea for showcasing certain types of work, say, photos or short stories. Pros: displays at a glance, each item is ~equal.
  2. hullabullo answered: not fun except when ur looking for something specific, i use it for the archives.
  3. susurrations answered: Ditto snooz3r.
  4. meow-leticia answered: there not the best but there okk i guess
  5. thetasteof answered: I HATE GRIDS.
  6. blu3-smurf said: I HATE THOSE!
  7. loosegoose answered: I think some idiot who didnt take Intro to Art created this. Anyone who understands anything about the visual field would call this “busy”
  8. tiptopgash answered: haaaaaaate it.
  9. willisrambles answered: I have mixed feelings about grid blogs. One thing I can agree with is the different content makes it feel cluttered. *shiver*
  10. olga-lemongrass answered: Yeah, those are pretty much retarded. You don’t have the space to post anything meaningful, so why bother?
  11. equator answered: rage.
  12. gjmueller answered: I find it harder to have opinions on web design…especially blogs! My dashboard/feed/reader of choice drops any layout used.
  13. wylie said: Most people have said that it’s okay “just for photo blogs.” I disagree. Photos deserve to be shown as large as possible.
  14. sleepanddream answered: hate them for the same reasons.
  15. parched answered: They work fine for images, but tiny chunks of text littering the page is overwhelming and hard to navigate.
  16. inky said: 10÷3, even. Derp.
  17. inky answered: Almost as irritating as the chronological chaos: three-column grids with *ten* posts to a page. Try typing 3÷10 into a calculator, people!
  18. noisyhearts reblogged this from nikography and added:
    I agree with every word
  19. notentirely answered: hate them. always have.
  20. redkeg answered: Don’t see the problem. Not all blogs are blogs are chronological. Delightful exploration can be a good thing. What’s wrong with that?
  21. nicklas answered: Usage outside of galleries deserve some form of punishment.
  22. lenayue answered: omg, HATE them!
  23. stublag answered: Wholeheartedly agree.
  24. theporcelainmanikin answered: well, I set my own Tumblr on a minimalism look so..what can I say?though mine is not *that* gridded ^^ there’s a point in what you say,anyway
  25. prettywordsandpictures answered: HATE them - can’t figure out where I’m supposed to start, or what order to read in… if it’s just photography/art sure, but no for writing.
  26. memesijaitort answered: deeply obnoxious. awful way to display photography. in fact i think it can often be insulting to the artist, being given only 250px of space.
  27. stitchrobot answered: I agree, I ended up switching my blog from the default grid view to a single column
  28. katastrophic answered: hey nik, remember that time we made a blog and it was a grid layout? i think it was 2001 and it was purple and we were silly kids.
  29. bitsandbobbles answered: I can’t read them
  30. mumblelard answered: it stops being a blog and becomes something else. that thing may have its own potential but so far it does nothing for me
  31. wearaboot answered: They’re also impossible to navigate. I hate them.
  32. snooz3r answered: it only works for me if all the posts are images with no or minimal type
  33. carlovely answered: i agree with you, 100%. maybe for portfolios it’s okay, but that’s it.
  34. zoya said: Also, can we talk about dropshadows on web text? Seeing so many illegible blogs these days.
  35. your-all-sluts answered: i likee(:
  36. zoya answered: Fine for photo dumps, entirely useless for any form of communication
  37. thisdizzydance said: I feel pretty much the same about them, unless the content is solely photographs (in which case I tend to like this look). Gridded mixed content like the screenshots you pictured, though, is a no-no for me.