Traditional Blog Design vs Modern Blogs

I regularly visit a few blogs. I go there to see what they most recently have to say. Since I follow them, I don't want to have all that magazine style clutter confusing me and getting in my way. I just want to read the newest story and move on.

Sorry, trad blog. "Slick" sucks.

Well, at a glance, I like it. Looks easy to read, simple, clean, but it has a bit of snazz too. I'll have to check out the actual blog.

Good luck. ^_^

I think it looks great but I would suggest a slightly less deep banner, to help regular readers get to the content stright away.

I agree with Veinglory about the banner. It could have less height and still have the writing that size. You just need the little man a bit smaller.

I also think you have a few two many of the little boxes at the bottom. On my screen, I have four rows of those boxes. Two would be the maximum I'd pay attention to (which'd be four summaries in total). The issue with that is you don't want me to stop scrolling down... because the previous entries button is right down there at the bottom.

Other than that, it looks clear and accessible. It's less busy and easier to read than the old one. Plus the banner picture sums it up better (the brown item on the first one seemed a bit generic).

Great post! I'm in the process of finding a web designer/developer, and wondered the same thing. I'm going with traditional. Thanks.