I’d never thought of it being hard to read really long lines, but you’re right. Huh. I don’t know what to want now… thin is wasteful, wide is hard to read, and columns usually just don’t look very good (maybe it’s just the really, really thin ones)..

Well, then, I’m satisfied. It is a very good layout. I want to chew on the bright colors.

Remember though that it is hard for the human eye to read overly long lines of text (this is one of the reasons why newspapers have columns) so people shouldn’t just use the entire screen width for one single, big chunk of text. That being said, it’s certainly not bad to have some more space to work with.

1.) The titles of posts are a little small.

2.) Only like half of the width of the page (on 1280×1024) is content. The rest of it is the borders and the sidebar. Which looks pretty nice, but is wasteful. (I don’t know what it is with blogs and 300px-wide layouts.)

3.) It’s odd for the header to be at the top of the sidebar, and not standing out much more than other things.

Also, I’m just a fan of white, sparse layouts like the old one. (Even if I did have web design skills, my “website” would be pretty light.)

Okay, even if I’m a total whiner, it’s still a slick and shiny and tasty-looking layout. I like it.