[registeredcorn]

As much as I like custom made websites and design that take a lot of time, thought, and effort, I really hate when they make things too unique by doing something weird, like making me scroll left to right across the website, instead of up and down because "The concept is for the user to read it, like a book. Because the website is about an author. Get it?"

There is a twinge of pain that I feel in the corporatization of the internet, and the loss of fun that used to be so present, but I cannot in good faith deny the level of predictability and ease-of-use that comes with standard templates like that one. It's clean and to the point. It's nice to look at. It's so common because it's such an excellent design. Get the point across, offer a little bit of detail further down, offer contact info for those who are still interested.

I also really appreciate the lack of one of those tedious "not-a-popup popups" that so many websites have gone with, where they try to get you to sign up for a newsletter of a website that they couldn't be bothered to update their copyright info in the last 2 years.