Should You Design Your Own Blog? « Lorelle on WordPress

A blog’s design is only as good as the blog designer.

That’s the truth. Like it or not.

Web design, especially blog design, is not about moving a sidebar to the left or right or changing your header art. It’s not about making the background blue instead of green and adding pictures to the overall design.

Web design is about matching the design with the content, the design with the blogger, the design with the blog’s purpose, the design with the audience, and about making the connections between all these pieces come together.

That last paragraph is the best. The idea of matching design with the content, the blogger, the purpose and the audience is wonderful. Very well said. I wish I’d said it in fact. This concept is one of the reasons I would suggest that bloggers should consider using a well designed but somewhat generic template when they get started. Better to be somewhat design neutral until you can get a feel for your audience and for yourself as a blogger. It’s also, in my opinion, better to have a well thought out neutral them, than a poorly designed them made just for you. A blog design says something about you, and about the site. It’s better that your blog’s design says little, than to have it say something poorly.