Chekhov's Mistress
Chekhov’s Mistress Site Redesign
Once again I’ve redesigned Chekhov’s Mistress, trying out new things in an attempt to make blogging better and freshen up the look a bit. Inspiration (particularly the lack of color and attempt to design using grids) comes from Khoi Vinh’s site Subtraction (Khoi is the Design Director for the NY Times).
Most importantly though, some of the features of the new site are important to me. Putting comments front-and-center with the rest of the site’s content will hopefully lead to more participation. Also note the addition of a list of contributors (soon to have more listed than just moi). To explain that more, I’ll excerpt from what I just posted anew on the about page:
I’ve long felt that beyond its value as my own chair in a big conversation, this site should have more than one contributor. With the newest iteration of the site’s design, I intend to make Chekhov’s Mistress a friendly place for ongoing contributions from thoughtful voices. Soon, we’ll have postings of potential topics (“On Deck” in the fashion of Open Source Radio’s site) and anyone who wants to engage in a conversation about one of those topics or another is welcome to. Hopefully we’ll develop some roundtable format series of posts and/or ad hoc contributions. While participation is by invitation only, feel free to invite yourself by getting in touch – you don’t need to have a blog to write here. The idea is not for contributors to make a guest post and go away, but to feel an ongoing sense of ownership of our site.
The guiding principle for our conversation here is embodied in Adam Zagajewski’s essay “A Defense of Ardor.” If you haven’t read it, I recommend it, but no worries, the title says quite a bit. Otherwise, read the archives here, subscribe, follow along, participate. Thanks.
So let me know what you think. Feeds remain the same, so even though I’ve also moved to a new (faster) server, the difference should be seamless. There are one or two technical glitches I’m working on, but feel free to let me know if something seems broken.
Happy Independence Day
comments
Never mind about poetry in movies - this is poetry in blog design. Me want :(
– genevieve (07/03 at 07:44 AM)
Brilliant! It will be exciting to see what develops and who’s next on deck. (Lovely design, too.)
– amcorrea (07/04 at 11:29 AM)
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