Jeremy Boles

It's a great design and all, and I have the color scheme--but are we over the Wicked Worn look yet?

Really nice. Reminds me of http://www.epitaph.com

Wicked-worn is a "technique" or "style", not a fad....

What a silly comment. Techniques and styles most certainly can be fads...

I like this site. Nothing too special or out of the ordinary, but very pleasing to the eye. The colors and background are great.

I stumbled upon Jeremy's site a few weeks back and I've checked back everyday since. Has such a nice personal style about it. It's just what a blog like his should look like, IMO.

So far he's put up some very nice content too. A+

Grunge is grunge is grunge is grunge. It's a style I've seen over before, therefore I can't comment on the over-all style as good. However, the fonts, accessibility, and coding is well done and still good.

I like the date and time CSS. There´s only one thing that bothers me: I thought for a moment that Jack Johnson were Jeremy Boles! :-) There´s hardly anyone that puts up a pic of them self anymore, not even in the colophon section. It feels a bit unpersonal if you read a blog for a long time and don´t even know what the person looks like...

I also really like the date box. And everything with the header rocks.

I am old. I no longer care about fashion or image. (But I have fish-tailed parka that people tell me is well-trendy:-) I wonder when I see sites like this what the author is trying to express. Does Jeremy have a personality that is wicked, worn, flakey or used? (I take it the shirt in the header indicates the website is about a part of him only). If it does then that's great! It's a very nicely done site.

If it is more an expression of the music he listens to, or is his favourite look of the month, then I am less impressed. I've seen 'wicked worn looks' on websites of (probably) spotty spoilt teenagers and I think they are inappropriate even if they want to express their rebellion.

But I used to follow fashion too and the downtrodden, abused, dirty look has been in and out of fashion so many times it is now a classic. But I think it looks best if it reflects the content of the website (or the music if looking at an album cover).

Peter, what you see as "fashion" and "image", I see as "branding" and "identity." It is perfectly clear that this is a personal website, and the author is identifying himself through a visual style. I don't undestand why a website design based on a person's musical tastes or favorite book (for example) should make it less impressive. Aren't we, after all, products of our influences? Every design comes from somewhere, so why should it matter from where it comes?

Good points, Jared. It's not for me to say how anyone should or shouldn't design their website. I am concerned about the influences, though. Television, shops, magazines, radio and websites are increasingly commercialised and persuasively suggest that we need this and that product. People may be individual in their choices but the selection they have to choose from seems increasingly dictated by big business and it seems to me that when I now see a fashionable person they are the product of other people's manipulations rather than expressing their own uniqueness. Hence I am wary of all things fashionable.

Being old though means that I don't really know much at all about current fashions. I get the feeling that many sites are included in css galleries largely because they are fashionable. People go ooh and aah about them but I often cannot see what all the fuss is about. So this leads me to think it might be some fashion thing that my generation doesn't and probably will never

I love the simplicity, yet effectiveness of Jeremy's design. The color palette, layers of texture, and contrast all give it a crisp, relaxed vibe. This is always a plus in my book.