Voices That Matter Conference

July 8, 2007
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    Yes… I don’t want to see the default wordpress template anymore :)
    Everyone should have a custom template…. (and I should start a blog;)

    vamapaull / 09/07/2007

    I think this post is very relevant:
    http://www.bluishorange.com/?x=2007_07_01_archive.html#7937343896940110304

    bren / 13/07/2007

    Here is the description of your talk, that is posted on the conference web site. Link at the bottom.

    It Isn’t Necessary to be Understood: Risk Taking for Web Designers

    Brendan Dawes, Executive Creative Director, magneticNorth Interactive Ltd.

    When Brendan Dawes first started playing with the Internet back in 1995, it was its eclectic nature—not just the content but also the experimentation that took place as people grappled with this new way to express themselves and their ideas—that he found appealing. But with the rise of the ubiquitous blog and cool publishing systems such as WordPress, are we in danger of creating a web that pretty much all looks the same, free of risk taking? Inspired by people such as jazz musician Thelonious Monk, composer Richard Wagner, and mountaineer Reinhold Messner, Brendan, author of Analog In, Digital Out, will share how he’s exploring other alternatives when it comes to twisting the humble blog into new forms.

    http://www.voicesthatmatter.com/webdesign2007/wdsessions.html

    Barbara Gavin / 23/07/2007

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    Comment

    My publishers, New Riders, are putting on a great little web design conference called “Voices That Matter” happening in San Francisco from October 22nd till October 25th 2007.

    Along side the likes of Jeffrey Zeldman, Andy Clarke, Jeremy Keith and Steve Krug, to name just a few, I’ll be doing a little session about my humble attempts to screw around with the presentation of blogs, and particularly Wordpress. While I love the ease at which a blog can be got up and running, I worry that it takes away the creative experimentation of graphic design that seemed to be much more evident in the early days of the web. Surely we don’t want a web that all looks like the default Wordpress template - or variants of?

    I’m not trying to bemoan the past - far from it. I want to continue to look forward. I love Wordpress, but a persons identity is not just about what he or she writes, or creates, but how that content is presented and the journey a user (a person) goes on as they experience the work.

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