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9Rules Network

{title}I’m proud to announce that markboulton.co.uk is now part of the 9Rules Network, a blog network focussed on content. The 9Rules Network aims to help sites get a wider audience through a “collective” approach with relatively few sites, all of which provide great content.

I’m chuffed that Paul (Scrivens of such sites as Whitespace and CSSVault) and team have accepted my site onto the 9Rules bus for what promises to be a fun ride!

While I’m at it, thanks to everyone who reads and continues to read and comment on this site. I’m hoping as the readership grows, so does the conversation and debate. If you’re new to the site, especially if you’ve come from a 9Rules Network site, then say hi.

Comments

Congratulations Mark!

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Graham Sanders
Tue 3rd May 2005
at 3:07 pm

Welcome Mark.  I’ve always enjoyed your site, and was happy to learn that you made it through in the first-round.

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Colin D. Devroe
Tue 3rd May 2005
at 3:33 pm

Welcome, Mark!  With sites the caliber of yours joining, I think it’s safe to say that the 9rules Network is going to conquer the world. 

(Now if you could just tone down your design a bit so my sites don’t look so weak in comparison, that’d be great....)

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James Archer
Tue 3rd May 2005
at 3:57 pm

Thanks all. I’m looking forward to seeing how things pan out with the 9Rules Network. As other sites, under different categories, begin to be integrated into the Network, we could see a huge increase in not only readership and general traffic, but also in terms of revenue and business opportunity.

Exciting times.

James - I’m thinking of a polka-dot design for the next version - maybe violet and orange, with BIG type - Comic Sans maybe. What do you think? ;-)

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Mark Boulton
Tue 3rd May 2005
at 5:42 pm

They say the Geocities look is coming back into fashion.  I say go for it!

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James Archer
Tue 3rd May 2005
at 9:20 pm

Fantastic. Mark, I came upon your site a few weeks ago after reading your article on Grid Systems in Design in Flight.

I love attention to detail and look forward to your articles.

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kartooner
Wed 4th May 2005
at 12:34 am

Congrats Mark. Keep up the awesome work.

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Yannick L.
Wed 4th May 2005
at 1:47 am

Congrats, I’ve always thought the second generation of blogs are focused not on linking existing content but on producing fresh content. Yours surely falls on the second category.

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Mark
Wed 4th May 2005
at 5:25 am

New since the 5 steps to better typography.

Thanks, congratulations, and keep up the good work!

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nikki
Wed 4th May 2005
at 6:56 am

Great site. I found you through the 9rules network and I am glad I did. I love the way you are displaying comments as thought bubbles. Any interest in writing an article on how you do it? :)

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Stephen
Thu 5th May 2005
at 3:00 am

Thanks all, keep checking back for some interesting stuff over the next few weeks.

- The rest of the “Five simple steps… Typography”
- The next simple steps series (I’ve got another interesting one in the pipeline)

There’s going to be some interesting updates to the site to keep it aligned with the new Network as well.

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Mark Boulton
Thu 5th May 2005
at 7:21 pm

Congrats, Mark!

BTW, it seems that images in your articles are broken in individual article pages (like http://www.markboulton.co.uk/journal/comments/9rules_network/) They work on the journal home page, tho.

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Jarkko
Fri 6th May 2005
at 2:51 pm

Thanks for the heads up Jarkko, that’s fixed now. Pesky ‘XHTML Typography’ plugin.

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Mark Boulton
Fri 6th May 2005
at 3:22 pm

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A picture of Mark BoultonI'm a graphic designer from near Cardiff in the UK. I've been a designer for over ten years now and primarily work on the web. I'm still partial to a bit of print every now and then though. I used to work for Agency.com in London as an Art Director before working as a Senior Designer for the BBC in sunny Cardiff. This was all before I took leave of my senses and formed my own design consultancy, Mark Boulton Design Ltd.

I've got a thing about grids and typography and occasionally ramble on about them to anyone who will listen.

If you're after simple, clean and effective web design; let me know.