http://www.flickr.com/photos/brandnewbrain/1058497101/

I gather from your other remarks that you’re moving to a non-traditional “magazine” format vice the standard “blog” reverse chronology. That seems to be a trend, with a few major blogs headed in that direction. I’m still not persuaded that it’s more beneficial.

I’ll be interested to see what you do with the footer.

Actually, if I’m being completely honest – I don’t usually read your posts from the actual problogger.net site. I read it from Google Reader, and then open the original item if I want to drop a comment. Nevertheless, I’m still excited to see what you’ve got brewing.

Looking forward to seeing the new design.

What I’m more looking forward to is the overall colour scheme of the blog – and if a lot of the colors are taken from the logo then I’m sure it’ll be a winner.

I like your hint that the new design will be less cluttered -sometimes less is more.

Also, very glad you’re dumping the yellow/gold. :-)

Really looking forward to the new design – bring it on ;-)

The circle (with three circles on it)
The P inside the circle
ProBlogger – with two different colors and sizes.

I would have considered using just the name, the “ProBlogger” part. That is the best part of the logo as it is now. Just ProBlogger in black and red.

The P inside the circle looks like it’s falling down because it’s lower than the P in ProBlogger. It’s probably because the P in the circle is lowercase, but it still looks strange. Also it looks strange that there are two P’s after each other, looking different. One is lowercase, but is positioned somewhere between where a lowercase p would normally be placed, and where an uppercase P would go. The P in the circle has a gap inside, the P in ProBlogger not.

The tree circles around the P. Because the P inside the circle has a downward stem, that makes the lovest circle “stick” to the p, while the other two are “floating” (difficult to explain).

The space around the P in the circle I feel is too small. It looks as it’s trapped. I would consider leaving space at least as big as the thickness of the lines of the P on all sides. Especially in the upper right part of the P, I think there’s too little space.

And finally: The spaces between the grey circle and the red circle, between the red circle and the grey balls, and the grey circle and the ProBlogger are not in harmony (in my opinion). It looks like the left grey ball is closer to the red circle than the other two.

I like the direction, but there are things missing in the execution.

All these are just details, details, details. And it’s very hard to make an amazing logo. And secondly: There are just my opinions, just that. :-)

I’m looking forward to see the new site design! Thanks for making an excellent website. I’ve been reading ProBlogger for several years, and while other so-called “blog help”-sites just turn the deck every six weeks, you manage to crank out new interesting material all the way. Brilliant.