A Good Website is Hard to Find

A good website is hard to find... but I think I've found one!
I regularly read Susan Senator's blog. She's a mother of three boys -- one with autism -- and has written a book called Making Peace With Autism. Reading her book is how I ended up finding her blog, and now it's one of the ones I read every day.

Anyway, when thinking of design ideas for my website, hers is one of the ones I find myself thinking back to. It's got a nice layout, straightforward color scheme, and a good list of categories. As a writer and a blogger myself, her website is a good example of the kind of thing I'd like to do with my own website.

I like the fact that the header remains the same throughout the site, and that there's room on the sidebar on the left for different specific links (her blog has a chronological posting list, her articles section has tags on the themes of her articles). It's a very no-nonsense sort of website, not cluttered up with unnecessary information, and everything has its proper place. I like that sense of organization.

Another website I'm a big fan of is author Neil Gaiman's website. (Noticing the writer-blog theme?) Again, his website has a basic header-and-navigation-at-the-top layout, subtle colors, all the right information. His website has a little bit more of a design/color scheme, which I like but I'm not sure I'd be able to pull off at this point. Still, it's good to dream, I suppose.