The neat thing about blogging design…

Hey Scobez. I didn’t know you were coming to Phoenix. You should let me and Lindsay buy you a beer!

Hey Scobez. I didn’t know you were coming to Phoenix. You should let me and Lindsay buy you a beer!

Sometimes I visit blogs and wish there was an option to view as plain text or at least switch to a very simple design. Some blogs are so over designed with wierd colours they’re a pain to read.

Anything is better than the temporoary raw format thas was in place before this. The green text in the submit comments box is a bit tough on the eyes, and the checkmark icon for each link in the sidebar only adds cluter and no value, but I suspect most readers can deal with this until the penultimate design is ready.

Maybe you should just leave your “brand” completely out of your blog. Keep Building43 to Building43, or you may just run into this problem again a few years down the line.

Fresh & neat!
I <3 it

….may be the Categories need some categorisation…

I think almost any design you pick is fine. The last one was only a problem because, to me, it looked like something was broken in the template (that was my first assumption when I saw it). This one doesn’t. I’m usually reading everything in RSS anyway, so your blog design isn’t something I need to have much of an opinion about!

Hope family stuff is all going well, and I hope to see you at Gnomedex in the summer as usual.

I like this one Simple is good, and green and black are interesting!

Scoble, I can’t imagine that you’re failing to realize that it’s likely that more people read your stuff syndicated than on site. Therefore, your theme is mostly irrelevant and there is no “brand” tied to your look and feel. Your name is your brand. If you were serious about messing with your brand, you should start a new blog under a pseudonym and see if it takes off. Otherwise, it’s just posturing.

I guess if you are trying to brand Bleeding Eyes!

I haven’t looked into the plugins available on wordpress.com, but is there a theme-switcher plugin. It’d be fun to see what your readers would choose as a theme.

is a theme really needed? how many people read this site first in google reader or elsewhere vs. visitng the site directly. i think it may have been a month since I’ve last visted, yet i’ve followed your blog throuhg google reader and haven’t missed much.

you pimp friendfeed a ton and talk about the discussion that occurs there, why even have comments on your blog then?

I personally find it hard to find a theme I like, whether its mine or a friend’s. Ultimately there will be elements that can’t be included cause they don’t work or things you omit cause they just look wrong. I liked your “branding image” with the video camera best of all. It was easily identifiable as you and created a sense of place on the site. Bring that back. The green text is a bit hard to view for me. I would keep it all simple and clean and let your content shine through (I can dispense this advice only because I don’t heed it myself!). I come for your content. Good design is a nice bonus (like dessert) but not a show-stopper.

This is the first time I’ve been to the actual site in a long time – I read you via RSS. And if you think the Scobleizer “brand” has to do with blog theming… well, that’s now how I see your brand. You’ve always been more about the content and the tech as opposed to the design or only endorsing that with a polished look.

I always thought you’d do well with a design similar to http://www.yoast.com, you’ve got the personality to carry it….let’s face it though, a vast majority of us come here for the content so the design is of little consequence, as long as it’s not too distracting or that it makes the content hard to read.

Cheers
Mat

I actually like this one. It’s pretty simple and has some color

I like this. Everything you write is nice. No matter the brand. Your content speaks for you.

Theres a lot of categories on the right sidebar. Which are perhaps tags (which brings up the whole category vs tags issue). I would prefer to see a shorter list of categories (maybe broader concepts) and a link to a tags page if I want some more detail. I read this site through Google Reader mainly but sometimes do visit the website directly.

Hey Scoble,

Have to say, not a big fan of this design. Can’t wait to see what comes with Building43 design, though!

The black area at the top is the problem. It doesn’t give a good vibe.

Hi Robert,

You were kind enough to reply to one of my queries about Windows a long time ago and I mention it in my post about Windows 7: http://captainmarlow.blogspot.com/2009/04/windows-xp-mode-for-windows-7.html
Thanks and all the best,
Marlow
PS: I don’t think the design matters much…within limits

I like the scaled back white to focus on the content — you can really see it come through with embedded photos and video. However, the legibility with long lengths of text is difficult when you use this shade of green. It’s so light that it instead of being bold on white, it is subdued.

Closer, but I’d keep trying, you can do better

Ok Scoble, I’ve had a couple of glasses of wine so I’m gonna be honest. At least the other design held the promise of something to come, like the fail whale, it looked broken, but we could understand. This, this is horrid, black over urine green. Your challenge is to find something worse. Like bacon and chocolate, even your delicious content can taste funny dipped in this.

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