The new Line Monkey MD, ready for your review.
This is the final design direction, built on the concept you liked. Everything here uses your real archive: all 77 essays, sorted into topics, with a real essay set in the new reading page. Have a look on your phone as well as your computer.
What to look at
Four pages, about ten minutes
The front page of the publication
Latest essay, Start Here, five topics, series, most discussed, your podcasts, About and the full archive by year.
“Independent IR in the Crosshairs,” in the new layout
Your February essay word for word, with contents, margin notes, your source links and the reading catheter.
Type, color, topics and the reading room
The rules the WordPress build will follow, and the temporary wordmark.
The illustration system
Four finished plates, the rules, a live “type a title” demo and a contact sheet of all 77 essays.
What’s new since the concept
Decisions made in this milestone
A type system for reading
Literata for essays and headlines, a condensed label face for topics and buttons, and a mono face only for plate annotations.
Five real topics
61 essays were “Uncategorized.” All 77 are now filed under five topics, color-coded with the 4 to 8 Fr sheath hub colors.
Plates that read like images
Angiogram, fluoro chart and field map families, with real annotations: essay number, date, view and French size.
The reading room
A dark theme for night reading. In the dark, plates turn into negatives. The button is at the top of every page.
Your work, credited quietly
Your BackTable episodes, a short timeline and links to IGS Missouri, Physician Staffing Solutions and Travelier, without turning the site into a brochure.
Nothing breaks
Every essay keeps its address, comments stay on, and the Mailjet list carries over. Old tag links will redirect.
Questions for you
Short answers are perfect
- Does the overall look feel like Line Monkey MD?
- Are the five topics right? Rename any of them, or tell me which essays to move.
- Start Here: are these the four essays you would hand a colleague first?
- Do the plates feel like yours? Any family you would change?
- Does the reading page feel comfortable on your phone?
- The topic colors follow the 4 to 8 Fr sheath color code. Does that match the sheaths you use?
Where we are
$2,000 in four milestones, each paid after your approval
- 1In review now
Design direction
Type, color, topics, plates, final homepage and reading page.
- 2Week 2
WordPress build on staging
The working site on a private copy, with all 77 essays moved over at the same addresses.
- 3Weeks 2 to 3
Logo, About and ventures
The final mark, your story, and IGS Missouri, Physician Staffing Solutions and Travelier.
- 4Week 3
Launch and handover
Go live with every old link working, a publishing guide and two weeks of fixes.