The re-design of SEOmoz has proven itself to be a very difficult and time consuming task, as you can see I'm still working on the header. Rand suggested I write a blog entry so you can all see how things are coming along and share in my turmoil. :)

 Some of the designs turned out okay, others are just plain horrible. I've found my best work comes by accident, so I often just tinker around until I start to like what I'm seeing rather than having some kind of plan and sticking to it. This tinker-until-you-get-it process often yields some pretty freaky stuff. I'm pretty sure none of these designs are going to make it into the site, but if I had to pick one it'd be one of the following three:

The rest of these aren't very good. I went for some pretty awful color schemes on some of them and you can definitely see I'm fond of gradients. The quest to make a web 2.0 site is difficult.