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I just spent the good part of the last two hours persusing through all of JSM blog posts on his website. I know that I have plugged his site on here before, but I really do think it is worth talking about again. There is a reason this guy is one of the premier graphic designers in the world.

A few things I love about his site:

• The Print Layout Feel
  I know this is something that is pretty popular with some of the bigger designers out there, especially after the rush to grid layouts. Jason does such as extraordniary job of compiling a print style layout and making it work for the web.
  
• It runs on Expression Engine
  I have been getting into more CMS platforms lately (which was a goal for this year) and the more I do, the more I appreciate the simplicity and robustness of Expression Engine. I have no doubt that one of the main reason he uses EE on the site is that it is one of the most flexible, and yet powerful, CMS’s out there. I have found no other system that rivals it (now if only i could find a good skin for the CP to make it less overwhelming for the client). I noticed that he has a default style for posts and a custom one for all his wacky posts. Each one is a case study in and of itself. The framework he built it on is genius, and it is all powered through EE. Gotta love it.
  
• Daily Photo Section
  Nazarin Hamid had one of these going on his site for a while. It was quite clever as well in that the primary color of the page matched the primary color of the photo.  Jason has done a similar thing, minus the color match execution. Regardless it is still a visually stimulating portion of his site.
  

I am probably going to continue to study how he has set this thing up and try to do a more in depth post on it toward the end of the year. We will see.

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