Syntagma Media, the blog network that thinks big and acts small, has rolled out “design tweaks” to their main blog. I think John and the folks over there need to talk to a designer and at least get back to a basic standard of normalcy in their design concepts. Why do I say that?
Design Should Not take away from Content
At the SM blogs, the designs chosen including the combination of colors and styles detract from the blogs. It’s like sparkly javascript doohickies that follow the mouse cursor.
Design should isolate on one, two or three primary colors
The SM designs are psychadelic rainbow colored beasts that create a user experience that is at the same time dizzying and nauseating. I think I would do better dropping LSD and experiencing the hallucinations than viewing these blogs.
Fortunately for them, Search Engines could care less about designs so perhaps they have decent SERPs.
