Designers redesigning their own sites continuously is definitely not a new thing, whilst any other redesign for any other blog / website is always a great thing to freshen things up a bit. Two big bloggers, Problogger and John Chow, recently grabbed the attention of the blogosphere with their respective new designs.

Redesigning a blog has got to be a well-thought through process with some strategic goals that the blogger / designer wants to be achieve with the redesign. Designers with blogs seems to be the most guilty of not planning a redesign properly and most of them just seems to redesign for the sake of redesigning. As you’ll see from the screenshot below, I too launched a redesigned version of my own blog (titled Polaroid Redesign V2) on Saturday (1 September), since I felt it was time for change. To however explain what I mean with planning a redesign, have a look at my redesign post-op…

Redesigning a blog means that you’re joining a very particular club that features some top notch redesigns - like Problogger and John Chow - and the club will most definitely judge your redesign in comparison to the other newly launched designs. This means that your redesign needs to be well-planned to make the impact that you’re hoping for!

Except for joining the “redesign club”, redesigning is also about the associated culture.  One of the major reasons for my redesign was the traditional September first reboot culture (although this seems to have died out). Redesigning a blog is a massive challenge, due to the very popular culture thereof…

So don’t be willy-nilly and ignorant about your next redesign - think about it and launch a special new design!

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