If I had to blame it on anything, it’d be the font choice. I think it used to be partially bolded and extra-big or something. The gradient background might have done it too, though. Sometimes that monkeys with text-recognition.

Either way, it wasn’t burning the retinas or giving nightmares. *raspberry*

Apropos of nothing, you have a “Wanting to leave an emphasis on your comment?” below the box, and the way it’s punctuated, my brain keeps repeating “You put the emPHAsis on the wrong syLLAble.” Over. And over. And over again.
Tami recently posted…Quick Fix or Right Thing

Although, that wasn’t Thesis’ fault, to be fair: It was probably due to (a) my font choice, (b) the background gradient, and (c) the 3-column layout. While there may be a few more cosmetic changes here (e.g., widgets, what appears on the sidebar on various pages, minor formatting stuff), I think this is pretty much the way things are going to be.

I agree with both of you.

Content IS king, but fantastic content can be shadowed by an unwelcoming or unusable theme. A gee-wow-whiz-bang theme on a site with little to no content may get noticed initially, but it won’t hold attention for long.

More time should definitely be spent on content than visuals.

I like it when a blog picks a theme and sticks with it, anyway – makes the place seem more welcoming and familiar when I return.

And I also agree that this theme is an improvement over the Thesis one. Easier on the eyes, while still retaining your Kestrel Blues. =]
Tami recently posted…Quick Fix or Right Thing

But to answer you directly, as long as the site is readable, the rest probably doesn’t matter to anyone except the blogger. (And I warn you, there’s still a lot of work to be done before I’m happy with this site!)

Your site, though, as an example, would not feel nearly as welcoming to me if it looked like Tobold’s. Part of the reason for that is, yours is a site I usually visit, even if I don’t comment; on the other hand, I almost never look at Tobold’s except through my feed reader. Even when I comment, it’s via my reader.

However sometimes I wonder: how important is the looks of a blog? If you’re into esthetics I suppose it matters to you as a blog keeper, but how important is it to the readers in the end? One of the most successful, read, commented on, most respected voices in the MMO blogosphere is Tobold. He’s got the most basic layout you’ve ever seen. Blogger 1.A. And that works perfectly well! The readers are there for the content.

I don’t say that it’s bad what you’re doing, absolutely not. To each one his own! But sometimes it makes me a little bit frustrated when especially WoW bloggers (which is what I read) keep putting tons of work into switching their layout over and over again, never satisfied, but yet don’t post very much.

Headway saw the train coming and tried to get off the tracks. That’s an A for effort, if and how it’s compliant and enforceable we’ll see, I guess.
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That’s not to say it’s wrong to use Headway or WordPress’ GPL requirements are the be-all-end-all, but it is not compliant.
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