Flash is how I make a living. Okay, maybe it's not, but flash sites can be incredibly fun and cool when done properly. A lot of my portfolio sites are full on flash, mostly because I'm not an HTML/CSS/Code wizard, I'm a graphic designer who makes webpage layouts. This is why wordpress and customizing it to fit my needs are so incredibly difficult. I'm 95% sure I have ADD or something when it comes to learning code, because I just can't focus that well it seems.

Anyways, your article does ring true. Feeds and other bits of content far outweigh any design or cleanliness to a site. In HealingTouch's case, it's more a matter of properly organizing stuff, so first time comers to a blog or site will understand where things are and what things are. That's always the goal of any design, giving the user something they can look at and easily understand. Most blogs, aren't, because they're covered in links to this and that and widgets out the ass, etc. HealingTouch's current incarnation is no exception to this, haha.

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I'd use a CMS, but the only one I know at all, Joomla, is on PHP, and my University only supports ASP.

it looks like you are only using asp for the main pages, and relying on static html for individual stories - yet they all have the same headers/sidebars. then another issue relies on asp. i find your mish mash of html/asp rather confusing. you should seriously consider a 'real' cms.

but, perhaps you prove my points above with this mismashery. If the content is good, (a henry rollins interview is always good), and people can at minimum find/read your content, then the design starts to become less and less relevant.

It's written in ASP for some ersatz content management. If there's a way to include files (header, contents sidebar, footer) via just HTML and CSS I'd embrace it.

But, I approve the use of stylesheets and the lack of tables. Tables are second only to frames on my shitlist.