Megan and Ptah, thank you both for the comments.

Ptah, you are saying that I changed oblique bh into BH serif. Truth is that I changed lowercase oblique sans-serif bh into uppercase italic serif BH, and the reason for doing so was mentioned in the article — nowhere else on Blog Herald can you find a combination of oblique/italic lowercase and sans-serif type.

In addition, if the title Blog Herald is currently capitalized, why use lowercase abbreviation as a logo?

In the suggested redesign you can see italic type used throughout the different elements, while the current design uses it only for the logo (icon).

Slogan, however, is aligned right to the center of the middle column and has a right side whitespace equal to an approximate width of an ad. More importantly, notice that “Daily Since 2003” is aligned left with the right side border of the main content column (or the central axis). In fact the whole tagline is in the center of that axis.

With regards to network links — I was trying to make them more prominent than they currently are. Also, if all of the network websites would feature equal network header navigation (which I suggested in the article), it would in fact enhance the usability as people would never feel lost if they actually decide to visit another website from the network.

At the same time I totally agree with you that conducting a basic usability testing would definitely help to decide the “amount” of emphases which network navigation requires.