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Dustin Curtis also does this, e.g. his post on sleep patterns.

Another good one: http://dustincurtis.com/

I don’t get why there aren’t more “design oriented” cmses that could make things like this easy. Right now, it is essentially a pain in the derrière to do something like this in any cms I know of.

Also don’t miss:

Dustin Curtis (dustincurtis.com)
Gregory Wood (gregorywood.co.uk)

+1 for Dustin, really like his work.

All around these guys are the antithesis of blogging to microblogging craze. Kudos for taking the time to add so much to the words.

@tobrb you’re absolutely right, because CMSes thrive on “templates”. Most people would consider putting words on the page 80-100% of the effort and call it a day, which is what an off-the-shelf CMS was built to do. Though, I’ve seen a resurgence towards static sites so you can more readily implement these vastly different designs per post (among other benefits like SEO , handling load, and simplicity).

There’s so much good stuff out there, it’s amazing..

Thanks for sharing these pieces of art (not to be confused with design).

TrentWalton.com has this too. It’s pretty sweet.

Another one: The Bold Italic

I think we’ll be seeing more and more of this. It’s time to break some paradigms as they relate to web design.

Tyler seems to be using squarespace.com for is redesigns. They make it super simple to change out a design (via an in-browser WYSIWYG editor). I did the same thing for my site (zachrhoads.com) and would recommend it to anyone.

And with RSS reader, all of these great designs are never seen.

A Brief Message too, although it hasn’t been updated in some time.

http://gregorywood.co.uk is really amazing as well. Look at this one. And this one too. Wow!

And David DeSandro.

I have an each post is custom design on a private blog of which I use Movable Type’s custom fields plugin to be able to alter and customize my CSS .

I am assuming that most other self-hosted cms’ have a similar plugin that allows one to customize tags and thus whole sections of one’s post.

Another site that does it too: http://www.hazardousink.com

Thanks to the commenters who pointed out Gregory Wood’s site. I absolutely love his story of why he learned diving!

Tyler’s rant in ie6 is really off-putting. What a dick.

^in = on

Don’t forget Jack Cheng: http://jackcheng.com/

And, of course, the Art Direction plugin for WP (by moi): http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/art-direction/

Noel’s plug-in is great; I’ve tried two others for the same purpose but his seems the best.

Others are:

http://www.joedolson.com/articles/wp-post-styling/ http://github.com/ionfish/designate/

Aside from the Miles Davis page, Tyler Thompson’s site looks pretty much the same to me. All the blog posts I looked at used the same design.

Just wondering if I’m missing something.

@FredS: He might have taken that a bit too far, but seriously why is anyone using IE6 by choice anymore? If you’re using it at work because you have to, he’s obviously not directing that at you personally.

Great post. I love the idea of designing blog posts to match the content and Jason Santa Maria is the master.

I’ve just relaunched my blog Avoid Contact With Eyes and all the posts are individually designed. It’s still a work in progress but getting there :)