Alright, I’m still planning (hoping?) to design my own theme for Wordpress… I’ve got quite a few ideas, but as always, they don’t really seem to fit together. I just pick out “oh, I like how they did that” and “gee, that’s really cool” and “wow, I should put that on my site!” from various places, and none of the independently great ideas work together.

So, after the success of our “Wasted Weekend” poll (hey, that’s catchy… I may have to make it a regular thing…), I thought I’d open up the floor again and see what you guys thought about themes.

Everybody has certain things they like and dislike from the webpages they visit regularly, and it’s foolish for me to think I’ll ever be able to please all these personal opinions. Still, I’d like a little 3rd party (and 4th and 5th and 6th…) advice.

What are some of your favorite aspects of a theme / design? Not just Wordpress or blog related, but in general over the entire web. Do you like navigation on the top or left? What kind of colors schemes – light or dark? Do you love blue as much as I do? Any other website design pet peeves you think all designs ever should abide by?

If you don’t have anything right off that you know of, just keep this in the back of your mind today while you surf around on company time, and let me know what your favorite parts of the sites you visited today are later tonight…

Just consider this a useability study… before the product has been created…