Since Magnus sprouted the first entry of this blog by telling us about some of the technical stuff that's behind our new website, I guess it's time to talk about the more fluffy side: design and user experience.
When we talked about how we wanted the design of smilingplants.com to be like, we both agreed that we wanted something clean and quite minimalist (hey, we're from Sweden). It may not be the most inspiring or compelling design on the web, but we are pleased with the result and we think that it will suit our purpose for some time.
The theme of minimalism is also visible on this blog, which we as you may have noticed named Where things grow. We have some small details that we really like, for example that a user who has made a comment sees a thank you message directly with a link to the comment feed for that particular post. We believe that it's more convenient for the user to track possible coming comments by a feed than by e-mail because we believe the mental impact of an e-mail is higher than an entry in a feed. That way, you don't have to overly concern your self with comments that may well be uninteresting to you.
Don't dare to write a comment but still want to see how it looks like? Well, see below:
Of course we follow best practices when it comes to URLs. We have made them both user friendly and optimized for search engines. For example, a URL to a blog post contains a maximum of five words (we don't like long URLs) and if they don't give a lot of meaning, like 'and', 'of' and 'the', they're not visible in the address.
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