{"id":843,"date":"2020-11-25T16:12:44","date_gmt":"2020-11-25T22:12:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wowfall2020.londietmartin.com\/?p=843"},"modified":"2020-11-25T16:12:44","modified_gmt":"2020-11-25T22:12:44","slug":"pretty-as-pie-cooking-blog-designs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wowfall2020.londietmartin.com\/?p=843","title":{"rendered":"Pretty as Pie: Cooking Blog Designs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\u201cWhy would they do this!\u201d<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

I heard my wife in the kitchen and just assumed our cats decided to run wild again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhat\u2019s up?\u201d I asked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She showed me her phone. There was a recipe for a Guinness beef stew on it. She had the whole page highlighted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhy is the\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe page highlighted? This!\u201d She unclicked it and the white letters disappeared in the in the cream background. It looked something like the text below…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

INGREDIENTS<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2 tablespoons olive oil, divided<\/p>\n\n\n\n

3 pounds beef chuck roast, trimmed of excess fat and cut into bite-sized pieces<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now I know I should be nicer because designing blogs is not an easy task. We should not judge the content by its presentation, but as humans judging is in our nature. We may not mean to but how could you not be turned off by a combination of swamp green and comic sans? We always judge by looks, but as someone who is horrible at web design and coding, I always try to not judge to harshly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

 I cannot speak for everyone, but when I am looking at cooking blogs that 3 things that stand out to me are:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This is why I need pictures… so I know I followed the directions<\/a> correctly.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n