{"id":1361,"date":"2011-02-04T00:40:38","date_gmt":"2011-02-04T08:40:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/?p=1361"},"modified":"2011-02-05T18:45:47","modified_gmt":"2011-02-06T02:45:47","slug":"style-is-the-perfection-of-a-point-of-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/2011\/02\/style-is-the-perfection-of-a-point-of-view\/","title":{"rendered":"Style is the Perfection of a Point of View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While it hasn&#8217;t been particularly long since the recent layout revision, I felt an impulse to redo everything again. The simplicity factor was in the right direction, but something about having a sidebar didn&#8217;t click for me. I thought a sidebar essentially added clutter, and displayed redundant information. On that note, I decided to go with a single-column design, effectively promoting further minimalism. Also, a white colored background also wasn&#8217;t cutting it anymore, thus the switch to a black one.<\/p>\n<p>For me, design is meaningless if it doesn&#8217;t persuade functionalism. In the modern age of websites, we are constantly flooded with noise that distracts the user from the essence: accessing &amp; reading the <em>content<\/em>. It&#8217;s easier than ever to fill a site with flashing, scrolling things or a plethora of images and buttons. So much so, I typically find it difficult to actually focus on what to read.<\/p>\n<p>I would say my affinity towards cleaner design is part of a larger principal: less is more.<\/p>\n<p>For what it&#8217;s worth, I hope the new layout proves adequate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While it hasn&#8217;t been particularly long since the recent layout revision, I felt an impulse to redo everything again. The simplicity factor was in the right direction, but something about having a sidebar didn&#8217;t click for me. I thought a sidebar essentially added clutter, and displayed redundant information. On that note, I decided to go [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1361"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1361"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1385,"href":"http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1361\/revisions\/1385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}