I’ve been spending quite a lot of time looking at the blogs and sites I visit on a regular basis. The one common detail I’ve noticed as far as the content is concerned, is that it’s all done in little chunks, quite often only two sentences at a time.

In an attempt to emulate this, I’ll be trying hard to stick to this commonly observed rule of thumb. It does break the text into nicely readable chunks which don’t seen to form great big blocks on the screen. Some of my previous posts look decidedly lumpy in comparison.

What I was aiming for in the beginning was a 500 word post split into three roughly equal stanzas. This, I now realise, was not a good yardstick to aim for. Constant incremental improvement is the way to go. Change one thing at a time and see how it affects everything else.

The one downside to having such an open layout is it makes it harder to write each post. You have to think about each sentence, because you’re aiming for a specific look, it makes you a lot more succinct, which I suppose isn’t a bad thing.