I tend to hate all redesigns until I forget the previous designs a couple of weeks later, so maybe I'll be OK after a while with the abrupt shift in colors over at Romenesko.

But the changes go beyond the palette -- the page is now harder to read.

Romenesko's site was never a thing of beauty, but it was clean and efficient and focused on content. Now they've crammed a big left-hand bar onto the page to promote other stuff from Poynter, which means the old  left-rail content is smushed into the center with the main posts.

I go to Romenesko for the media blog, but the media blog is now deemphasized. The redesign is meant to help Poynter, not me.

Examples of web design I like include Google and the NYT.