Our Blog's Appearance

Our "book" template is...O.K.  But I imagine that at least a few of us are artistically gifted enough to do better.  If any of you would like to play around with the Blog creation tool, or check out some other Blogs for ideas, I'm open to change.  My only requirements are that our Blog must be easily readable, academically/professionally presentable, and laid out so that all necessary tools are easily accessed.