This one cracked me up but it is so damn true, blog themes and sites with random photos/pics in them are so corny that its becoming a pain now, there are almost NO real users for these kind of themes/templates anymore, and yet people tend to make them over and over again, there was a post about this on the best page in the universe where they explain just how corny and idiotic these random images and expressions are.
Web design 101 is to use CSS and have proper custom images made for your website, no one wants to see what they already can on a cheap calender, a good blog theme/website template is based on pure css and custom images, not stock photos and cheesy sub titles.
A great example of this is SEOmoz, their website is just amazing everything is perfectly placed and you will never see random pictures of people you don’t know there ever, every image their is either a part of the template that has been made specially for it or pictures (avatars/profile pics) of the users.
Its how it always has to be to get into the mainstream.
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March 10th, 2009 at 6:52 pm
thanks !! very helpful post!
March 25th, 2009 at 11:23 pm
Please, can you PM me and tell me few more thinks about this, I am really fan of your blog…gets solved properly asap.