I’m not a trained designer. I designed my own blog, but getting to a finished design was more trial and error than a well-rounded creative process.
However it’s been almost two years since I did any design work on my blog.
In that time the design has moved quite a long way away from the original look and feel, thanks to the addition of various new widgets and WordPress plug-ins.
I think it’s time to spruce things up a bit.
I don’t have the time to fully redesign it myself and code up a new WordPress template, but I’d like to make some changes to the current look and feel to make it look a bit more modern and easier to use.
For the record my main gripes with the current design are:

• Little use of colour – only two main colours, one of which is grey
• Too text heavy
• Not enough whitespace
• Too much information in sidebars, making them much longer than the centre column

I’d also like to introduce Ajax-based comments and search onto the site as well.
So, if you were me, what would you do to the site?
Any thoughts, advice and tips gratefully received…