Rethinking blog designs

I’m beginning to think that the typical blog design — mine included — are not made for the content. This train of thought has been prompted by Reviving Anorexic Web Writing. To give credit where it’s due, Cristos over at Live by the Chip has been saying for a while that due to the layout of the typical blog, as you read down the page, there is a lot of wasted space since there is nothing but the content, and it’s usually in the middle of the page in a narrow viewing column.

The challenge I’m going to try to tackle is to not only make the content pop out more, but see how I can minimize the empty, boring nothing that surrounds a post the further down the page you read. Studies show that if you write great content, people will read it, so how do you make the bottom of the page interesting?

If you have any ideas, please leave them in the comments, and I’ll be more than happy to start a conversation with you to come up with a great design.