Local hero Lauren Gawne (@laureng) and not-local-to-this-site-as-far-as-I-know-but-nonetheless-a-hero-by-any-measure Gretchen McCulloch have remodeled website for their podcast:
Just as web design this site is so smooth. Custom art, this lurvely typeface, but most of all, really good curation. I can’t think of another podcast site that is this useful. It’s almost like they want to help you make use of their content or something.
And not only that, there are transcripts of many of the episodes, which is rare, and a huge win for accessibility of many kinds I think.
Anyway, go check out Lingthusiasm if you haven’t yet.
I hereby award this redesign of the Lingthusiasm website this award for redesigning the Lingthusiasm website:
Dang, don’t spend it all at once.
(As someone who has been trying to run this site for a year (while, admittedly, finishing a dissertation), I know first-hand how much work goes into curation like this. Maybe when I’m finally (gulp) finished I can take some inspiration from Lauren & Gretchen and try to spruce this place up a bit!))
Thanks so much Pat! It’s been a couple of years coming, but we’re really happy with how it turned out!
Gretchen is very much the one who drove this - and I’m so glad she documented it because it’s a great example of really thinking through a process from the user perspective.
And I’m glad the website makes our transcripts more visible - they’re done by local wizard @SarahDopierala!
Going to add our trophy to the Lingthusiasm awards shelf!
Wow, that is a lovely font! The Google Fonts page doesn’t really do it justice, though. I think it works mainly because of the generous line-spacing (and the green accents).
And is that…a blanket with Unicode characters on the left? Very cool!
@skalyan we should have a thread about fonts that are useful for linguists! I can’t think of anyone better to talk about it than you. Stuff like IPA support, licensing, etc. Would you be interested?
