This design is ‘The Big Read’ and is a modern magazine layout suitable for a website with a lot of content. The look is clean and engaging, providing the viewer with a smorgasbord of stories to chose from.
The Big Read is designed for easy browsing. The index of articles comprises an unfiltered feed of all posts, with filtered feeds in featured sections interspersed. All posts feeds are newest first, and this page ends with an infinite scroll feed of the whole post archive.
Note that this design is a single-page skin applied to this one page within the Big Impact Design website. All the links and feeds are active and dynamic but if you navigate away from this page, you will be viewing pages within Big Impact Design where The Big Read design does not apply.
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Testing my CSS styling via The Big Read plugin
Read the story: Testing my CSS styling via The Big Read pluginChanging the look of the Big Impact Design website, and moving it to a new block theme and plugins, requires a lot of testing
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Read the story: The self-promoter’s essential checklist
The self-promoter’s essential checklist
If you have something to say about your product or service, then you’ve got the fuel for the Google search engine – a regular supply of information for a dedicated audience
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Read the story: Avoid phone wallets, and other simple security tips
Avoid phone wallets, and other simple security tips
We all know we should have strong passwords but who knew the risks from phone wallets? Here are some simple things we can do to improve our personal data security
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Read the story: Is your website showing its age?
Is your website showing its age?
Your website was a masterpiece in the very latest of communication technology when it launched ten years ago, but how is it looking now?
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Read the story: The Big Read – a broadsheet design for a content-rich site
The Big Read – a broadsheet design for a content-rich site
‘The Big Read’ is a broadsheet magazine design built for a website with a lot of content presented in a magazine digest layout
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Read the story: Putting the ‘fun’ in functionality
Putting the ‘fun’ in functionality
Communication is the name of the game but clarity and accessibility don’t have to come at the expense of fun. Talk to the robot…
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Read the story: Don’t charge extra for card payments – it’s illegal
Don’t charge extra for card payments – it’s illegal
Are you charging your customers extra for card payments? Adding a nominal amount of 50p or £1 for card vs cash payments is breaking the law and you risk prosecution. And worse…
Category: Best practice
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Read the story: It’s not the taking part, it’s the winning that counts
It’s not the taking part, it’s the winning that counts
Why do you need Big Impact Design in your team? What exactly do we do for you? Founder, Tim Baggaley, dips into his youth for a lesson in teamwork
Keywords: teamwork
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Read the story: Paper Dolls for Derby Shakespeare
Paper Dolls for Derby Shakespeare
Creating artwork for theatre productions is great fun as every job is different and exciting. Designing for Derby Shakespeare Theatre Company’s production of ‘Paper Dolls’ was a joy
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Read the story: A recipe for success
A recipe for success
Take the right ingredients, blend them carefully and you can cook up a website that will feed the needs of all your hungry clients. Warning, the following article contains puns…
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Read the story: Digital crisis management – what’s your recovery plan?
Digital crisis management – what’s your recovery plan?
The Blue Screen Of Death, The Spinning Beachball Of Doom, hackers, thieves, spilt coffee, phones under water… What do you do when your digital life goes down the toilet?
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Read the story: Is your website a freak like mine?
Is your website a freak like mine?
If you want a visually arresting and utterly unique website then you’re in the right place. Super Freak! is a stunner and looking for a home…
Category: Demo
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Read the story: Putting practice into theory
Putting practice into theory
When Tim Baggaley was commissioned by Northeastern University London to explain to psychology students how graphic design works, he forensically dissected his project methodology to show them how the mind of a creative operates
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Read the story: The Facebook problem and how to fix it
The Facebook problem and how to fix it
Many small businesses and solo traders rely on their posts to social networks to promote their trade while their domain name website sits collecting dust. That’s not good
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Read the story: Punk snot dead…
Punk snot dead…
Music fans love the covers, sleeve notes and booklets that come with CD and vinyl records and we love designing them. Vinyl’s not dead and MP3s don’t come with gatefold inserts…
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Read the story: Animation movies for social media
Animation movies for social media
We added Affinity’s suite of creative applications and Blackmagic Design’s DaVinci Resolve movie-maker to our repertoire in this animation project
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Read the story: Is your password rubb!$h?
Is your password rubb!$h?
With the COVID-19 pandemic isolation, we are spending more time online than ever. Our login data is an enormous buffet for hackers but while we are all sitting at our keyboards, now is a perfect time to ramp up our security
Category: Security
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Read the story: How to think like an artist
How to think like an artist
Simply drag and drop to build your own website to get that minimal design featured on thousands of other websites to make sure you don’t stand out from the crowd
Category: Trade secrets
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Read the story: Magazine typography for websites
Magazine typography for websites
Once upon a time, there was no Cascading Style Sheets and just half-a-dozen, dull ‘web-safe’ fonts. Now we have pseudo-selectors and font hosting as the web’s typography catches up with the Middle Ages…
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Read the story: Photoshop stealth mode, leave no trace
Photoshop stealth mode, leave no trace
Faking photos has been around for a long time, Photoshop is just a newer way of doing it. The trick remains the same, though; conceal your working
Keywords: photoshop
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Read the story: Keep your bulk email out of the SPAM box
Keep your bulk email out of the SPAM box
If you use a mailing list to promote a business enterprise, no matter how modest, then you need to comply with the GDPR law and best practice protocols or you’ll end up branded a SPAMMER
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Read the story: Always judge a book by its cover
Always judge a book by its cover
Why do we judge books by their covers? Because quick decisions based on simple, visual clues are right more often than they are wrong and there’s good reason for that, and that is very handy for graphic designers
Category: Trade secretsKeywords: design
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Read the story: Take that look off your Facebook
Take that look off your Facebook
You might think that posting content to your project’s Facebook page is sharing your content with the world but it turns out, Facebook might actually be quite secretive with your content
