Redesigning is kind of new trends with blogs. As Smashing Magazine, Mashable &  larger number of other blogs are redesigning their blogs with some stunning new looks & user experience. I noticed that old design of these blogs was also good & that made me think that people can use their old designs in more than one way.

This idea came to me few days back, when I found blog post on a famous design blog that gave sneak peek of their new design. I felt current design of that website was also pretty awesome. I quickly made a comment on the post suggesting him that he should donate his old design to new & upcoming bloggers which can help them in some way.

So following is the list what bloggers can do with their old design, rather than completely scraping them of.

1. Donate to new bloggers or to non-profit organizations.

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Donating is a good option as they will not only appreciate, but will also mention your good deed by telling their audience about it. This will bring good traffic to your blog, and also you will earn good karma for it.

2. Auction your old designs.

Auctioning is other option bloggers should try doing it with their old design as there are many people who would want an ownership on the design which has been known by people for long time. Either you can completely auction the old design or you can sell the design in parts like selling your logos, icons, header or footer PSD in your auction.

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3. Create a giveaway post where you can give your old design as the prize

Giveaway is a great way to get large traffic on the blog & giving old design as a prize would surely make everyone crazy & the word about your old design is given away in giveaway post will spread like fire & people will do anything to have their hands on your old designs. This will also get you lots of new subscriber to your blog.

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4. Reward your subscriber by gifting old design to most commenter on the blog.

Rewards are the best way to say that you care about your subscribers. So rewarding your old design to the subscriber with most comments will show that you always reward the most loyal follower of your blog with some exciting gifts . So this will not only give you more followers to your blog, but also you will earn large number of loyal followers which are always needed for any bloggers.

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5. Sell your design in marketplace.

Photo by Chris Holder

Putting up your design for sell in marketplace will definitely make you richer by some dime as there are many readers who will wish to have website like yours.

6.Distribute design under Creative Common Rights.

Distributing design under creative common rights is a good idea, in this way you generate large number of backlinks & traffic to your blog.

7.Share old design with some slight modification to subscribers of the blogs.

If you are not willing to give your original design of your blog, then you can create a modified version of design & can distribute that design to your readers. It will be a win-win situation for you as well as for your reader.

8.Give them away in freebies.

Photo by Billy Alexander

Giving your design as freebie, without any conditions will show your generosity & you will get huge traffic too, as most of the blogger will point to your domain suggesting their user to download your old design.

9.Write tutorials showing how you created your design.

Photo by Zsuzsanna Kilian

Tutorials on how you created your old design is other way of showing your willingness to your subscriber to give them an inside to your design concept & let them know the kind of hard work you put into your designing.

10.Giveaway psd’s in freebies.

If you are not willing to share your complete design, then best thing you can offer freebies of PSD document of your design.

So just don’t garbage your old design as there are many bloggers who are die-hard fan of your blog, who would like to receive their favourite blogs old design & would like to implement them on their blog. By this way you can get large traffic but also generate some good fan following on to your blogs.

Starting today, YouTube will look dramatically different for everyone. That’s because the Google-owned video website will be rolling out its redesign to all users over the next few hours — the rollout should be complete by 7:00 p.m. today.

You may have already seen elements of this redesign: The actual interface was revealed two months ago. Since then, though, YouTube has tested, iterated and made changes to the new design. Today, however, it feels comfortable enough to roll it out to its millions of daily viewers.

Here at YouTube’s headquarters in San Bruno, California, we were briefed on what users should expect starting today and the thought process that went behind each of the changes. Here’s some of what we learned:

The New YouTube: Leaner and Less Cluttered

During its research, YouTube analyzed data on what users wanted on video pages, as well as what features these users interact with (e.g. comments, subscriptions, rating videos). However, at least 37% of YouTube’s users simply don’t want or use these these features; if they could just have a webpage with a title, a giant video and a search box, they’d be ecstatic.

The new video pages are very similar to the redesigned pages revealed two months ago: five-star ratings have been replaced with a thumbs up-or-down system, the “subscribe” button has been moved into a more prominent location on the top of the page and video descriptions have been moved from the right hand side of the video to under it.

During our briefing at YouTube HQ, the company demoed some of the more subtle new features. YouTube has made accessing descriptions, view counts and video stats easier by creating a hover effect (you will see a blue highlight when you hover over descriptions and the view count) and making the entire area clickable. The view count is now placed in a larger font and emphasized more strongly because it’s one of the most critical components of the video page.

The change in how videos are rated makes perfect sense to us (nearly 90% of users clicked “five stars,” essentially rendering a five-point scale useless), but the company has even thought about details such as the size of the like and dislike buttons. You’ll notice that the “like” button is wider than the dislike; this is based on how the average person uses these buttons.

Navigation Simplified

The masthead has also been massively pared down — it’s thinner and focused almost entirely on the search box. YouTube is, after all, the world’s second largest search engine, only beaten by Google itself. You’ll also notice interface changes when you perform searches.

Focus has also been placed on improving advertising and branding opportunities for its top content creators. We were shown an example of a YouTube star transforming her username into an image that definitely pops out to the eye. This all happens on the video page.

The navigation to the next video has also received attention. YouTube doesn’t want you to leave its website until “you’ve run out of videos to watch, which will hopefully never happen.” To that end, the new system works more like a playlist, where videos will play one after another. Even when you perform a search, video playing won’t be interrupted. Autoplay features have also been added.

Finally, expect changes to YouTube’s many mobile interfaces — Google-controlled ones (like the YouTube player on Android) will be changed in the next few weeks to reflect the new changes, while others like the YouTube iPhone player will take some more time.

The individual changes are small, but as a whole they are huge and very notable. YouTube’s trying to refocus its strategy toward stronger user engagement and keeping people on YouTube for longer. The pages run faster and feel less cluttered, so we’re fans. How the average YouTube commenter reacts to the redesign is anybody’s guess, though.