What is wrong with your blog, dude?

I’ve stripped Blog Salad of its design and, for the entire month of May, will be redesigning the site while you watch—and tell me what to do.

Yes, I realize that by the end of the month I might feel like one of those Girls Gone Wild after the Jagermeister wears off.

So why am I doing this?

May is Blogathon Month. The 2010 WordCount Blogathon is a challenge to blog every day for 31 days in May without dying from exposure.  I figured that exposing myself early on would help me build up enough nipple callous to survive through to the painful, bloody end. I badly needed blog fodder. I figured, hey, if folks are actually reading Blog Salad, they should get a chance to decide how the blog looks and how it works—because Chuck Norris knows I haven’t a clue what I’m really doing.

And I’m a web designer, and I’m prone to doing silly things, two characteristics that gel nicely with this little experiment.

So here’s the deal:

• Every day, I will write a quick post discussing a certain element of blog design, followed by a poll.
• Every day, readers will respond to the poll.
• Every day, I will do as the readers tell me.
• Almost every day, other bobble-headed ridiculousness will undoubtedly ensue. Pictures of monkeys and toddlers are likely.
• Once per week, I’ll be writing for my new Psychology Today blog, You 2.0, on a topic that’s hopefully far more interesting than anything going on here.
• May will finally end, and you will all be forced to give coroner’s reports confessing that you helped toss my Salad.

I’m also giving away a free $2000 website design on May 20th June 1, so stay tuned for more details on that.

So there you go. Leave a comment if you think I should do anything differently, or if you just think this is a terrible idea in general.

Either way, let’s boogie.