Today I bumped on the Smiley Cat website, where Christian Watson has a showcase of header typography for weblogs. You imediatly feel the influence of the so called Web 2.0 design trends, like big fonts and the use of Trebuchet MS, but there’s a lot more to discover. And if you’re at the site, make sure to check the other showcase, one of comments design.
The last time I was reading an article on Engadget.com (a blog I was enjoying a lot in its early days), I was shocked by the amount of advertising on it. A whole bunch of Google Ad packs, and next to that there’s the overload of Weblogs Inc. promotional material.
So I made this scheme, to visually compare the use of space:
The red part is the actual article, orange are the comments, yellow the navigation.
Black are paid ads, and gray is property of Weblogs Inc. (Click for full view)
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If you want to get an insight in what’s hot in logotype design in the web 2.0 era, take a look at this massive collection:
Source: Pietel (dutch blogger and photographer, make sure to check his Flickr sets).
DesignShack offers a showcase of great and inventive CSS blogdesigns.
And if you think you’re worth it, you can submit your own design 
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