As far as both the themes are concerned, Hampsha and the Css Zen garden, they seem to waste a lot of space on either side of the border. It seems to make the page unnecessarily long if you type large posts.
Css Zen Garden’s design is not wasting space. It is designed for both 800*600 resolution as well as 1024*768 resolution. The layout is still viewable under smaller screen resolution without ugly horizontal scrollbars.
The design dun waste screen space as it is build to be scalable.
This is something which alot webmasters and designers forgot to do. They assume that people is n longer using 800*600 resolution any more. This is wrong.
Moreover, space allows the viewers’ eyes to be able to “rest” and not overload by text information as blog are usually text intensive.
However, I agree that the blog could be shorter and if needed, span across a few pages. This is the down-side of blog, I guess. ??