Guess Who's Back!

By BWA Staff

Well, after many e-mails and IMs (and even a few phone calls!), the three of us sat down and looked at whether we should put in the Best Blog Design category this year. Without divulging too much of what happened last year, at the end of the 2005 BWAs, I didn’t know if we should include it this year. A “blog design” can be such an iffy thing to judge.

Does it include a fully tricked out site with custom graphics or is it just modifying someone else’s existing template? And what about those blogs with nice designs that weren’t done by the blog’s author, but by someone else? Do you credit the blog, or do you credit the designer? With all of those factors, we realized that holding it up to the person who nominates the blog is what we’d have to rely upon.

So…we’re going to put the Best Blog Design category back, with the following conditions:

• No pre-packaged/pre-designed “themes”
• Minor modifications on pre-packaged/predesigned “themes” are not eligible (i.e., link color changes, a new header image, etc.)
• If the design is NOT a pre-packaged/pre-designed “theme”, credit must be given to the designer on the blog
• No stolen designs

We promise…no other new categories before the Awards start on Tuesday! These 21 are the final category count.

Published by BWA Staff in best blog design