— The Daily Pundit, Bill Quick, has converted his blog to Movable Type and undergone a redesign in the process; temporarily reachable at http://64.247.33.2/~icebergw/ until DNS catches up.
While the new design is more fetching to the eye as an aesthetic object, it’s a step backward in terms of accessibility. There’s a large banner on top which pushes his content lower on the page, and the contrast between foreground and background in the links section is less than it used to be, which makes it harder to read. To compensate for the lack of contrast, the designer uses an extra-large font, which means you have to do more scrolling to read his site than you should. I like Bill’s content because he’s passionate and funny, but the new design doesn’t showcase his writing as much as it showcases the designer’s flawed concept of aesthetics.
Ditch the colors, Bill. The nice thing about Bill’s new blog is that he has an RSS feed, so he’s now included in RoboPundit.