I shouldn’t be whining about a free site, but the layout at comics.com turns me off. The background and the clutter makes me think I’m flipping through the Yellow Pages.

Websites that are so packed with beveled edges, shadows, bright gradient colors, in addition to neccessary advertising, are doing everything they can to distract the eye from the actual content. Photoshop art can look very weird next to pen and ink artwork if you aren’t careful.

The Daily Cartoonist is a great example. There’s a lot of nice white space that’s easy on the eyes, but there’s also nice graphics to compliment the content and not distract from it.

Uh-oh. Me doth ranteth a bit. Time to go home.