Being Different
One of the topics in my blog design presentation was Differentiation and why it was important to not have your blog like a million other blogs. That point came up last week for the oyayubizoku blog. The designer, Jason Fields, noticed that the same blog templates he was using was being used by a porn site and that weirded him out. Just like finding your voice and not posting about what everyone else is posting about, it’s important to find a unique design.
There are thousands of Blogger templates and tips from Everything TypePad to make your blog more personal. For Movable Type, it’s as easy as dropping in a replacement stylesheet, like those from MovableStyle.
For blogs like this one, it’s totally custom and you can view the stylesheet here. For inspiration, visit the CSS Zen Garden and blogs like Stopdesign, Coudal Partners, and Weighshift. And note just ’cause your blogging about business, doesn’t mean your site can’t be beautiful.
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Just wanted to say that ‘inspiration’ does not mean ’saving to disk’ and then altering a title in mast head with Photoshop. If you want to blog for business and don’t like using templates then hire any of the designer mentioned here to help you get then attention you think you deserve.
Agreed and that brings up a whole other topic, related to the blogging economy, of the designers, writers, editors, all needed to publish those blogs. Is their work being devalued in the blog economy and, of course, a thousand dotcom death to those site pirates you cited. Easy publishing still needs good design, but others would argue that it’s all about the content and who needs design.
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