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by drewmclellan 4931 days ago
That's my site. I'm glad you're a fan - thank you.

I suspect, in this case, that you're simply not this article's intended audience. If you've already got a good feel for design, then the suggestions could feel simplistic.

We publish an article every day during advent. It would be easy to turn out 24 articles that everyone nods their heads to, but it would be really dull and a disservice to our readers. In order to have a really vibrant schedule of interesting things, not every article will appeal to every reader - and that's totally okay.

Today was for developers struggling to know how to make their projects look a bit better. Yesterday was some reasonably hardcore CSS selector stuff. Friday was about designing questionnaires. It's all about variety.

We're happy if any individual doesn't like an article, as long as we're never being dull.

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Just so you know, I read the article, liked it and have it saved to follow up on later today. I'm a programmer not a designer.

Thanks for getting it out there.

Just wanted to say thanks to you and your contributers over the years. I always thought 24 articles in 24 days was a very ambitious idea but somehow you guys always deliver the magic.

I'm not the target audience for this article either so it really is hard to judge, but I got something out of it and I can see that a number of people found it helpful and timely.

Don't change!