A Brief Message is a new site by Khoi Vinh and Liz Danzico. The concept of the site is very simple. Feature short (200 words) articles on design by fellow designers and at the same time experiment with the art direction of an online publication. Personally I love the freakin’ site. As some of you are already aware of, I don’t tend to write long posts. I like to get right to the point… or maybe it’s cause I have nothing to say. I also have the attention span of a fly when it comes to reading blogs and I respond more to visuals. I rarely read a long post, even if it interests me a great deal. That’s what makes A Brief Message so refreshing for me. Short, smart articles accompanied by beautiful visuals wrapped up in a great design. Plus each article will feature a unique design and illustration giving you more than one reason to go back each day.        

A little off topic but I wanted to get some input from you guys on which blogging software is the best. Currently this blog runs on WordPress and I’ve been considering to change the software for some time now. The main reason is because I want software that will make it easy for me to create the design I want and not have to use all these cookie cutter designs. I’m not even sure something like this exists. I know HTML and CSS but at the same time I don’t want to have to learn the entire template system for a specific software. I’m probably dreaming but is there a blogging software out there that would make it easier to implement an original design? Or is WordPress good enough? I’ve been researching and it seems like the top systems are Expression Engine, Movable Type, Textpattern and WordPress. I’d like to hear from people who have experience with any of these blogging systems or any other ones that I haven’t mentioned.