Trying out some button styles for the ffl blog.

Our public version of the real estate prototype is up!

From: http://www.fastforwardlabs.com/pre

FFL blog design after a mobile-first rebuild. After a lot of fiddling with the link blocks I added a gray border to them – I was really trying to avoid borders and lines, but they make the hierarchy a lot clearer here. I also did a bunch of fiddling with the post-type text, including trying out small caps. Eventually I settled on kind of faking the small caps since the black weight didn't have a small cap variant and the bold one had kind of rough kerning anyway.

I made a codepen detailing the layout dilemma I am facing for the FFL blog.

From: http://codepen.io/GrantCuster/full/ggMzbP/

Cleaned up post preview. Rhythm feeling pretty good to me, for now, at least.

Started back at the basics, and going mobile first for real on the FFL blog. Also added a fluid type set-up.

Checking out the fluid type examples here.

From: http://codepen.io/chriscoyier/pen/ozJXYE

Feeling kind of stuck, so I commented out the stylesheet. This usually happens at least three times a project.

Screenshot from the game Forgotten by Sophia Park.

From: https://killscreen.com/articles/forgotten-youre-horror-inside-computer/

Lots of interesting points in the notes on the CSS Tricks redesign. I like that it's trying stuff and not being too fussy. Thinking about whether I should add expandable images into the FFL blog design.

From: https://css-tricks.com/redesign-v15-notes/

Excited about having elements other than posts appear in the blog feed – with their position determined procedurally.

Work on the links to more posts from the post page for the FFL blog.

Full-width code blocks for blog posts. And a color scheme drawn from our book colors – will probably tweak colors some more.

Still working on balancing the link elements with the post ones. I want to make them feel at home in the site design but I also want to set them off from the post links and show that they're less important.

Some general clean-up and some more work on the link blocks.

Trying to figure out a link element design that will look good with a variety of links. I also need to be make sure there's a noticeable hierarchy where links are less important than posts.

I made more tweaks and the grid is now responsive. Added the featured post back in.

A more stylized post preview/link for the blog. Still thinking/tweaking.

Trying out a featured post template.

Working on integrating preview images in to the blog home page.