Comments on: Are We Obsessed With Aesthetics?

By: Enemdy

Enemdy — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 23:43:58 +0000

We are on the same boat here. I’m sure you are one of Leo’s fan! Me too.

Although I love arts and design, but when it comes to blogging, I’m much prefer in functions than design. At first I wasted a lot of time on design, not the content. Now I know which one is useful.

By: Kelvin Servigon

Kelvin Servigon — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 03:08:14 +0000

For a graphic designer like me, I do believe that aesthetics is very important for our blogs, because it makes the readers more excited and attracted to our blogs. The design of your blog also speaks as the topic of your blog. Rainbow for happy thoughts, or vintage cameras for photo blogs.

And I admit, I am obsessed in aesthetics of my blog.

By: Heidi

Heidi — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 19:37:27 +0000

When I first started out with a website I looked to see who had top sites in my niche as well using the same platform (forums) and found it interesting to see that many of the most popular sites in our space were not very asthetically pleasing. It was content, ease of navigation and in the case of forums, the community that made these sites at the top. Some were using default skins for the forum software with little to no cutstomization.

It was a real eye opener to me to focus on the content, make sure content was well organized and focus on the “pretty” later.

Of course design helps you convey your brand. Colors, logo, and font should all be given some consideration in the begining but that should not be the main focus of energies spent. This goes for any website, blog, forum or store on the net. You can have the slickest website out there with flash menus, slideshows, photo galleries etc but if don’t have the content behind it users won’t be comming back.

By: Rochelle Cheever

Rochelle Cheever — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 09:18:37 +0000

I here what you are saying loud and clear! I live in Rome, Italy where I hear your quote “anch’occhio ha il suo parte” daily. Surrounded fashion-holics, I often ask myself, when I see Romans prouncing around in their ultra Haute-caute at 8:30 in the morning, what are they hiding underneath all that?
The same goes with all the tra – la -la designers or anything else for that matter, even food.
For example, if the food is of good quality, then all the heavy sauces & condiments are unnecessary and will kill the authentic original flavor. Simplicity is best, at least for me, in everything:)

By: Maky Kent

Maky Kent — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 07:33:58 +0000

Aesthetics is the thing naturally the average mankind will agree to be eye-catching. The company wants its staff to wear a tie based on various considerations, but not just because of aesthetics. For example, the representation of the company image, the uniformity in staff spirit and the reflection of being professional.

As for blog design, we see evidents that the well-designed blogs are always successful in capturing attentions. It is like product packaging. We should not be surprised why the manufacturers are spending quite a lot of money decorating their products. Aesthetics is used to boost the sales of their products. So by parity of reasoning, you want to show your blog to more people by doing so. However, if your content is not good enough, or you just throw too much effort on decoration, people will find out your point is not to share blog contents but to fool them in to increase your blog’s popularity.

My opinion, blog content comes first in your blog building. If you have spare time, it is advisable to beautify it.