The Winner
The winner of the "I drank too much before redesigning my template Award goes to ... well, I can't tell the name of the blog. Possibly, it's Silently Waiting..., but frankly I don't know.
Wow. It needs to be seen to be believed. It's like someone took an html class and wanted to use all the neat tricks they just learned.
There's the snowflakes falling on the whole screen, just like on Sam's site, but hers has readable entries (and she's cool: she was the first person to comment on my site). There's that message board thing. There's moving text (I assume the html class included some javascripting) all over the place. And the whole thing takes up half a page, because each section is a separate window. I don't care if the blog's author is Joyce Carol Oates. Or Stephen King. I'm not going to sit through all the "extras" to get to the message. Maybe you'll have more patience.