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I'm designing a one page agency site. Everything works great in this format, except for the blog/news section(s.) The problematic issue is not necessarily displaying the blog content inline, but how to show archives and allow navigation in the blog from the single page. I don't think we'll allow searching from within the site, so no results pages. I think we'll rely on organic search to drive traffic to specific pages.

Has anyone designed a site that implements a blog into a one-page design?

What are the key insights that make this design approach work? What are the usability problems which had the greatest impact, and what issues turned out to less a problem?

Supporting examples welcome!

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Are you asking for a list of sites that use a one-page blog design, or are you asking how you can effectively set up a blog's flow on a single page? The list question is off topic but I think the latter Q could be a good fit. You can still ask answerers for examples to prove their points. – Ben Brocka♦ Mar 19 '12 at 16:59
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The latter. But it's not purely a blog-style site. There will be a blog component. So, really, I would like examples of how some have integrated a blog into a one-page site. I see issues of running content inline, depending on length and content. A lightbox stretching screen height might work. Then the question arises, "How shall we handle archives,etc.?" Just seeing if there are any innovative, intuitive solutions others have used. I can see it getting complex quickly. Edit: Hit enter. Whoops. – cowcat Mar 19 '12 at 19:36
By one page what exactly do you mean? Like Twitter's "one page" where everything is loaded in via AJAX but visual pages are distinct, or just that everything is in a single, continuous vertical page? – Ben Brocka♦ Mar 19 '12 at 19:42
Apologies. Didn't understand the ask. simple.com is a good example of the one-page design we're going for. No infinity-load. Simple does have a blog, but send it out to individual pages. We'll do something similar if a reasonable solution doesn't come up. I just wanted to see what's out there. Edit: Pressed Enter again. – cowcat Mar 19 '12 at 19:48
Ah, I see what you mean. Simple is a good example – Ben Brocka♦ Mar 19 '12 at 20:26

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There don't appear to be any that don't either link out to other pages for articles or load older articles incrementally.

You can find a whole bunch of terrific examples of single-page websites on One Page Love, and on that site you can search for "blog" and "news" to list some examples.

The closest I can find, then, is something like the System of a Down site is a single-pager which AJAX-loads in older articles when you choose "Previous Posts". Some other ideas include Idea Exhibit (which loads older articles once you navigate to them), or something more like Happy Cog (which links off the page for other articles).

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Thank you very much for the link to One Page Love. Hadn't seen that before! – cowcat Mar 20 '12 at 15:50
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This is vanilla: http://googleblog.blogspot.in/

This is cassatta: http://googleblog.blogspot.in/view

Don't forget the browse the awe-inspiring arrangements on the second link.

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These aren't one-page sites. They are pure blogs. – dnbrv Mar 19 '12 at 16:57
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Welcome to UX.SE A'n'User! Could you provide some more detail in your answer, such as a description of the sites or some screenshots? – Matt Rockwell Mar 19 '12 at 17:12
OP here. I think A'n'User was showing how these views could be scaled down as a page component. If so, there's some pretty interesting solutions there. – cowcat Mar 19 '12 at 19:41

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