Making Light seems to be a finalist for some award called "The Best of the Top 250 Blogs." Go vote for them. Michael Berube is nominated in the next category down. Vote for him, too.

This award seems to have unusual voting rules as explained by one of the nominees in another category:

Wetwired is nominated for the Best Blog Design on the 2005 Weblog Awards. Please go out and vote for us! Remember you can vote once EVERY 24 hours. This post will remain at the top of wetwired until the polls are closed on December 15th.

So I guess I should encourage you to vote early and OFTEN.

I had a look through the Best Web Design nominees thinking I might learn something. I have to say the experience was pretty disappointing. Mostly they were designs that didn't suck, about half with some major screen-realestate-eating graphics. What I was looking for was interesting solutions to problems. I mostly didn't find them. The two nominees that gave me something to admire were Coming Anarchy, which has a fun but looney neo-Victorian design. Brown Daily Squeal was the only one where the design seem to involve an information-presentation problem solved. I decided to pass on the category.

I don't love my design, but it is carefully engineered to solve a number of problems in the presentation of information.