DewKnight.com has a new theme! I felt it was time for change since the old theme had a few weird errors and design flaws in it. This new theme is Illacrimo by Design Disease.

What do you all think about it? Should I keep it? Go back to the old one? Get a completely different theme? Here’s the old design:

Don’t forget to enter the Mountain Dew / Entrecard contest! All you’ve gotta do is take a picture of a Mountain Dew.

Here’s a new series for you: How to make your blog not suck.

First up in the series is plugins. You can easily make your blog not suck and your readers not hate you by getting rid of all of those hundreds of plugins, badges, images, etc all in your sidebar and all around your blog. You should have a billion little things making the page really long and slowing down the load time. When you have a lot of junk in there it slows down browsers and just makes people get angry at you. Plus, it makes your blog suck.

Think about what value these plugins and images offer, and weight that against how much people hate you for them.