Some time ago, when books like "HTML for dummies" were proudly flooding bookshops, lots of self-educated hackers were trying to create their first homepage. Lots of those web pages had a common trait - being amazingly colorful. Blues, pinks and greens were dominating and right next to them were fountains of animated gifs and moving texts.

Nowadays clean design is trendy. None of the two-dot-o pages blinks, unless it's an ad which is blinking. But you have to make a living of something.

I personally just wonder how much of this ranting about clean-design and usability is a matter of a actual trend. And when it will be cool again to have an old-school colorful homepage instead of a neat and boring blog.

--jlg