Jeff Lewis has redesigned his SoCalLawBlog, and it looks good. He's set the page to a fixed width so that the center column doesn't scale relative to the browser windows, he's adjusted the color scheme, and he has a nifty new image in the upper left corner. Setting a fixed width keeps advertisements encroaching on the body text or distracting from it, without diminishing the ads in a way that would be unfair to his sponsors.
I commented on the old design a few weeks back in linking to one of the SoCalLawBlog posts. I think I phrased my comment too harshly, and I want to apologize to him for that. Jeff revealed in the comments that he had a sense of humor about the ads, but I wish I'd chosen a more constructive way of expressing my irritation with what I took to be blog ads that overwhelmed the content. Thanks for letting me know about the updates, Jeff, and I'm sorry I wasn't more helpful from the start.
Thanks for the kind words and the link!