Mark Pilgrim and Jeffrey Zeldman have put big round things on their home pages. Eric Meyer provides two choices of round thing. Jason Kottke has a square thing. Combined, are all of these perhaps a nod to simpler web design?
Probably not. But maybe. After all, two points form a line; five points are a trend. As Kottke says, If someone else is doing something that works, why change it?
And who am I to buck a trend? Here’s a bunch of round things (in rectangular things), some writing about other round things, and Rosalita Whyte of The Third Floor demonstrating the correct use of even more round things. At least I’m not inflicting this round thing on you on every visit:
Nice pic!