Blog Design Trends for 2009

Rachel Cunliffe at Cre8td Design has a new post on Blog Design Trends for 2009. She says look for tighter integration of social networking sites like Twitter and facebook and for people to migrate back to their blogs from these sites. Also, look for wider formats as screen sizes increase. Read her post here

"Goodbye Web 2.0?

The big-text-shiny-rounded-gradient “Web 2.0 designs” will start to fade in 2009 and seem a little dated. Here’s my predictions for blog design trends in 2009.
Back to the middle

Blogs have been sidelined a little with social networking sites like MySpace, Facebook and communication tools like Twitter. Many bloggers spend more time on other sites than on their own blog but as their online identities are spread out further and further, bloggers will re-center their online identity around their blog where they have complete freedom over the site structure, design, features and content. Blogs will be used to pull in social networking data like never before. Blog themes will powerfully integrate these in a meaningful and useful way - and as a permanent record all bundled together in one place."