I have been monitoring few money making blogs design for the past 2 weeks. The one that got my attention is about Problogger’s new theme. You might have heard about his new design and I just want to give my opinion about it since we are all learning about this. Below is a screen shot of his new design:

Source: Problogger.net

As you can see from the picture above, problogger new blog theme does not look like a blog a lot anymore. It is much more like a portal for me. Personaly, I am not a big fan of this new design for the reasons below:

1. It gives just a little preview of the current post. Readers need to click to read the full story to read the entire post content.
2. I don’t know about you but, I would have kept the orange theme color of the original theme since most of the readers are used to it.
3. I bet you don’t like the guy’s pic that big?

The thing I like it is because:

1. It is an original and unique design! (I hope i can get a designer to built one for me and for cheap! any takers?)
2. Very well structured and the ads design are properly placed on the right side.
3. Easy on the eyes.(I must admit..)

Some articles about blogs design:

• The Importance of Your Blog’s Design
• Which blogs design are the best?

Have you heard about the blogger that paid JohnChow USD400 to get his blog reviewed and ends up being a laughing stock because of his poor blog design? You can read the JC review here, the last word I heard is he got a new theme going and looks like learning the mistakes he have made(i don’t think you need to pay $400 to learn that Black background with white font is bad!)

Oh ya, If you want free wordpress theme just like Johnchow’s, click here.

Happy choosing your theme!

Cheers

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