Is web design dead? Are web designers on the verge of becoming obsolete, and facing extinction by way of a flood of pre-designed blog themes and templates? Setting yourself up with a website, or blog, is far easier today than it was ten years ago, thanks to the wide range of free web publishing tools that are now available, such as Wordpress, Blogger, TypePad, and Moveable Type, ... Read full entry

There's been some interesting and varied reaction to the recent redesign of ProBlogger, but the sentiment, "hopefully this lifts the overall standard of blog design", especially caught my attention. ProBlogger is considered by many a flagship among blogs, and due to its prominence is probably the first place many new, and aspiring, bloggers look to when seeking inspiration for their own blogging endeavours. The ... Read full entry