Comments on: 7 Blog Design Trends for 2006

By: Silent Scream

Silent Scream — Sun, 15 Jan 2006 19:58:39 +0000

Interesting. Perhaps the best thing to do here is the opposite, so as to stand out from the crowd.

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Tue, 03 Jan 2006 21:11:34 +0000

[...] ProBlogger links to a post on blog design trends written by Rachel Cunliffe in the cre8d design blog. Cunliffe, in her post, enumerates elements of current blog design trends: big fonts, big headers and footers, top border, bright colors, speech bubble comments, rounded corners, highlighted links. [...]

By: Cary

Cary — Tue, 03 Jan 2006 18:03:49 +0000

Fad or not, I’m sure glad that styles change instead of just staying static :)

Who wants to live in a world where everything looks the same? Some like big, some like small…I personally like a mix between the two. If everything’s too small I find it hard to find anything, if everything’s too big, well, the same problem, right?

Here’s to diversity in 2006.

Cheers!

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Un blog stiloso per il 2006 at Dalilah — Tue, 03 Jan 2006 13:31:52 +0000

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By: john echilo

john echilo — Tue, 03 Jan 2006 10:53:56 +0000

just confidence with your own style. dude

By: mark

mark — Tue, 03 Jan 2006 07:48:04 +0000

good observations.

I’ve noticed them too on many blogs.

By: Kashif

Kashif — Tue, 03 Jan 2006 07:36:51 +0000

How about keeping it simple? Like I did on http://www.apnijobs.com

By: PXLated

PXLated — Tue, 03 Jan 2006 04:25:44 +0000

Martin…”I wonder then if big desing/elements is simply taking over from white space.”
Not all but in a lot of cases yes because “big” is in.
I think the bigger thing I see in sites using these trends is the creators make everything big. All buttons are big. All headlines are big. All text is big. There is no differentiation between what’s important and what is not. There is no place to focus.
Not all things on a page or in a blog are created equal and shouldn’t be treated as such.
;-)

By: Martin

Martin — Tue, 03 Jan 2006 04:03:00 +0000

PXLated – I take your point … so simplicity is okay, whatever happened to white space rather than having to fill in the page – can’t get more simple that that.

I wonder then if big desing/elements is simply taking over from white space.

By: PXLated

PXLated — Tue, 03 Jan 2006 03:47:11 +0000

Martin…I think getting something down to as simplest a form as possible is usually good and I don’t have an argument with simplicity itself. But I don’t see simplicity as the main fad part in this, it’s the individual elements in the list of seven. Simplicity might allow one to make things bigger but even that is not required for simplicity. All seven are merely style and will change.
;-)

By: Martin

Martin — Tue, 03 Jan 2006 03:24:35 +0000

PXLated – you may very well be right, I guess you’d be in a better position to know than me seeing you’re in the design game and I’m about as design-challenged as they come :-)

Why not a middle ground then? Maybe last year it got too cluttered, this year will be too simple so it might eventually settle somewhere in between.

By: PXLated

PXLated — Tue, 03 Jan 2006 03:13:21 +0000

Martin…Simplicity is good but this goes beyond simplicity…Time will tell but my bet is still on fad.

By: Martin

Martin — Tue, 03 Jan 2006 02:41:26 +0000

Gotta respectfully disagree with you Duncan & PXLated. I think this move to more simplicity is a natural tendency away from the cluttered feel many blogs have become.

By: Russ

Russ — Tue, 03 Jan 2006 02:24:46 +0000

I think the main think in design is to give the reader what they want, and not a heap of gimmicks and ads. By trying to get bigger titles, it is also helping with accessibility, and getting the reader where they want to be.

By: Duncan Riley

Duncan Riley — Tue, 03 Jan 2006 00:03:18 +0000

Agree with PXLated, I think its a fad, a bit like Web 2.0, we’ll see a lot of it this year but at the end of the day if the fundamentals aren’t right (ie content) it won’t make a difference.

By: PXLated

PXLated — Mon, 02 Jan 2006 15:22:20 +0000

Big is just a momentary fad…won’t last, all ready getting tired. Same with the color green. The other big problem is that everything is big, everything has the same weight/importance, no emphasis. Of course, that makes it easy, you don’t have to make any value judgements on what is important and what isn’t. Not everything is.
Advertising/Marketing/Design 101…they all fail.

By: varun

varun — Mon, 02 Jan 2006 14:02:17 +0000

i like small fonts, nice colours, it is to be very attractive for everyone HAPPY AND PROSPEROUS NEW YEAR 2006 latest gadgets review

By: Martin

Martin — Mon, 02 Jan 2006 13:30:16 +0000

Hey Rachel … I think you’re spot on. Big fonts, simplier colors, less clutter. I think it started with the perfromancing.com design … very, very basic, easy on the eye etc.,

I like the trend to the “less is more” in blogging that I see more and more every day.