ShaunInman.com runs on Wordpress? Really??? I can’t belive that…

lol my blog not listed. (kidding) great collections.

WOW!!! rly great Designs there…
if i weren’t a designer, i would chose this one:
Link [www.vikiworks.com]

Perfect timing… I’m in the midst of designing the blog right now :)

Thanks!

some very cool designs. some “standard” templates for wordpress like Link [www.designdisease.com] are also pretty good. Ours too at Link [www.lets-jam.com.] ;-)

Yeah, great collections! These are good examples of functional and beautiful Designs :)

There are some inspiring blog designs
What do you think of my Link [www.modeblog.nl]

Nice list. Do you guys tell people you’re featuring them? Sidney (bubblessoc.net) will be over the moon about being here…

Great list. I’ve had a lot of those bookmarked for inspiration.

At last, I can have my grave stone completed with the following epithet:

As Featured in Smashing Magazine

And what’s more I’m next to Shaun Inman’s blog (much better design than mine). A double honour. Three cheers for the inimitable SM.

Really made my work much easier, otherwise it gets soooo… confusing at times.

Vijay

This brings up an interesting question I have always had. Do people really browse by category? I know it depends on your content but I’m under the idea of being extremely minimalist for the simple fact that I want people to read my stuff and not be distracted by widgets, and stats, and blogroll links etc.

What is everyone elses take on this?

I think these sites are more popular than excellent.

Good list, although some of them don’t work in ALL browsers very well.

Great Collection always…
Smashing Magazine..U r Ultimate…

Wow … talk about a wordpress overload ;) !

The Surfgarden blog is my favorite design, congrats.

Shit, they forgot abaut my blog…. again:p Thats okey, i didnt want to be listed anyway:D

No avalonstar love?

nice collection :)

great to see these layed out next to each other, on just this list there are more better wordpress designers… but I say someone needs to start a CMS design competition, wordpress vs expressionengine vs moveable type vs etc…

Thank you for presenting me! That is a big honor for me. I am speechless. Thanks again.

Yay! Thanks a lot for including our blog in such a nice selection! We are very honored :)

Thanks a lot!

Another great compilation but Agenturblog is hardly impressive by any stretch. I always liked Link [www.rustylime.com] who I think you featured among a compilation b4. Green is nice.

How dare you mention MovableType and leave out Txp, lol.

Nice list as usual! That’s great for inspiration. Thanks!

great! list! but
alistapart .com ?

I always need some inspiration, great! thanks..

The new design I’m working on is definitely making the next list. I CANNOT wait to finish and release it!

I really love Link [www.kineda.com]. I believe they use Wordpress.

nice post people

I believe Link [freelanceswitch.com] is powered by Light CMS, not Wordpress. Could be wrong.

Also, though I love some of the tips and tricks type lists you guys do, it seems that most of these gallery items - all of which I’ve seen on the gallery sites previously - seem to be nothing more than attempts at links to/from recognized names. I’d love to see more content that the rest of us would actually have to dig to find (like the 80 AJAX or 70 CSS lists). That’s the stuff I subscribed for. Keep up the good work, all the same.

Wow - you listed Binary Moon. Thanks a lot :)

There’s an awful lot of other pretty sites in there too. I’m going to have to check them all out properly.

Wow… some very inspirational work here, inspires me to re-design my own blog.

Nice collection indeed.
personally I very much like Nick La layout.Simple yet attractive One column theme,but I like more on left hand sidebar though.

Hi, here’s another clean blog design, powered by Textpattern: Link [www.puredesign.ro]

Great designs. Just when I thought I was almost done with my redesign I see these. Time for some more tweaking haha.

I’m (not really) sorry, but most of these designs are probably appealing, but they don’t work. Usability tests will fail with yet simple tasks, and this is the real tragedy here. It’s - not only due to Link [meiert.com] - more appropriate to talk about “excellent blog decorations”, I fear.

Another job well done.

You’ve missed Matt Brett’s blog. He’s definitely got the most beatiful Wordpress blog ever imo. [http://mattbrett.com].

Nice list anyways!

Hi

We use Serendipity, an open source platform which works qute well. Our blog is v minimalist…its a Zen thing :)

I thought blogs did not have their own domain names!
I thought they were something like name.blogspot.com

Why these blogs have their own domain name?

Is there a blog engine to be downloaded and uploaded to a separate ftp space?

Thanks for including my blog in this great selection… I wasn’t expecting… I always use your lists to get inspired by…

Am lovin’ some of these designs - especially blogonic and freelance switch - once again another great list from SM :)

KUTGW

@ alan p: we also use serendipity, but ours looks quite different ;-)

What about blogs powered by Blogger?

You’re being unfare to blogger users :( Blogs hosted on Google’s “Blogger” platform, despite their many shortcomings, can be almost equally versatile. Look at this blog for instance: Link [atunu.blogspot.com]

Wow, nice blog designs, some of my favorites are in there too! :)

Wow! I’m incredibly honoured to be featured guys! SM has long been a daily read for me, and I’ve been inspired by many of your articles - so to be included in one of your famous roundups is amazing! :D

Thank you so much..! :)

You know what I like about this list? 2 things: It proves that you can make a beautiful weblog with any of the popular applications out there, and it has a very wide range of blog designs; there’s no one style that dominates this list. You did a great job picking them out, and now I feel like redesigning mine!

Thanks for putting me on the list. The list is good, the list is life…

Excellent list of blog designs. A true source of inspiration for sure :)

man i can’t believe larissa meek is on the best designed blogs - like i remember in 2003/2004 she was on the reality show Average Joe and was this hot model type. But she was a “geek at heart” and all the guys were fighting for her. She claimed she was an “artist” but I thought nothing of it. And now today I am seeing her blog in the best designs, turns out she’s a web designer today and must be doing pretty well. I thought she’d be known for the average joe thing but guess not!

Wow, thanks for the mention! It was quite unexpected but I’m very honored ^___^

Love, Bubs (aka Sidney Collins)

I use Link [karmasites.com] for my blog designs. Not only does it have all the typical blog options, but I can add non-typical modules like events, music, forums and stores (among others). I design through their CSS Karma Wizard and I’m able to turn out a xhtml strict that validates without my having to be a total master. All the bugs are zapped for me, and I can resell these designs at easily affordable rates. The CMS is the best part: clients have total control, it’s user-friendly for the inexperienced, and extremely adaptable for those who are advanced. Highly recommended!

Though it doesn’t really stand up to the examples above, I just finished a fairly difficult custom redesign of Link [www.edgecurve.com], powered by Wordpress.

Why are they listed by which blogging software they use?

I don’t get why that’s relevant. I’m not being rude, I’m genuinely puzzled.

I would have listed them by colour scheme, layout, design similarity, etc. It never would have occurred to me to list them by back end.

Found it rather interesting that most of the ‘better’ designs were from WordPress

i really like some such as

expression engine, nickla, and design disease…

these three are the awesome work done by whoever the creator is … admirable designs

In the footer of Emanuel Blagonic’s site we can read “Powered by: Wordpress”. So is it Wordpress of EE?

@Notícias (response #5) — the design of your own blog you linked to sucks. It’s just one of the Blogger templates with a very plain custom header.

Very nice blog list … Beautiful designs!

Cheers, very nice list. Needed some ideas for a couple of sites and found a gem to base on thanks to this list.

N1

faggots

Excellent！

amazing designs!

i choose one of them for my girlfreind’s blog~

Just amazing! Thanks for sharing.

Nice list, thank you. How can some people find all these things, huh?

Very, very, very nice! Very nice!

It’s so hard to find the “right” design to use. I guess wider designs are the trend right now.

There are also other powerful but, lesser known Blog/CMS systems, one such being Symphony21, Link [www.symphony21.com] , by TwentyOne Degrees, Link [21degrees.com.au]

You should explore some these systems to get a better feeling of the CMSes used on the web.

Nice designs, but what about the best best Weblog Software ever,

Serendipity?

some nice designs is cool but some ….

from Russia
the good blogs/ Cabana (Wordpress)

great list :)!!! loved seeing the new blogs that i haven’t read before!

I don’t usually like the flashy colors, ornament-like designs (except “no pattern”) but the Webdesigner Wall blog design is really awesome. Best I’ve seen in months !

Tut mir leid, aber die vorgestellten Seiten sehen mit ein paar ausnahmen alle gleich aus. Keine Innovationen! Zum Teil unübersichtlicher als eine Bild-Zeitung!

Is this have to use blog engine, or anyone who make blog can use it?

Great inspirational article! I really like the John Boardley layout on Typography… Cheers :)

Nice list again! I would like to see more “landscape” kinda wordpress themes as well as themes with colourful headers and unusual graphical images of humans. heeeeee…

Viki - realy cool.

WOW! great designs

Ours runs on a Word Press back end with PHP custom script. I really enjoy looking at all the wonderful designs, type, fonts- all of these designs are truly fabulous.

Fantastic designs I only wish I had the knowledge or the means to get one done.

I think your selection is very good. I like Veerle’s site. What do you think about Link [www.funatiq.com] ?

There are some real goodies in this list but there are also some stinkers that I just can’t work out how they have made the list [I won’t mention which as I don’t want to offend]

I’m personally quite proud of my new creation - Link [www.perlina.co.uk]

Very nice thanks.

This is my favorite, it’s not listed here:
Link [www.ndesign-studio.com]

Same guy that did ‘Nick La’ which you have listed. In my opinion this is maybe one of the most beatifull blogs ever (Second to mine - haha)

Nice collection. I will like to use one of these

excellent

Excelente recopilación, realizaré un post en mi blog Link [nestavista.com] para recomendarlo.
Saludos y los felicito por el gran trabajo realizado.

WOW! really nice list… great… but, my blog wasn’t there… jajaja (just kidding)

exellent idea and choice!!

Excellent designs.

Just to answer cool (Comment 65): There are many ways to blog. You can use a blog service like blogger.com. This means, you do not have to install and maintain any software. You just use it and maintain your posts and the styleing (by applying a template). This also means that the blog does not have its own domain name, instead the domain name is from the service provider. The next way is to upload and install a blog software like serendipity or wordpress or whatever to your choice is. This way you normally have your own domain name. Let’s say you are your own service provider. Last you could do your own hand-made blog without using any blog software. The rss format is public and much easier than html. So it is easy to handcode an rss blog. You could then use xsl to translate this to html, and voilá, your blog. To add other features like comments, pingback or trackback you need php or something similar on your webspace of course. The last way is how i do it. Not because it’s necessary, but because it’s possible and i wanted to learn it. And the advantage is, you could do anything possible with (x)html and css to make the blog look whatever you like, you are not limited to any template.

wow, didnt know wordpress was so popular these are great!

Really great designs and useful inspirations!

Great list, has given some ideas for next time when I redesign my blogs.

great wordpress themes.thanx for sharing

wow! nice themes - never knew Django was that popular :)

Hey,

Im very new to this and have a little understanding, but if i look at the source code of a page i like, does that tell me how it was created?

For example: /System/Library/Frameworks/PubSub.framework/Versions/A/Resources/PubSubAgent.app/Contents

I assume thats Frameworks, but how do I learn more about style attributes?

Thanks a lot. I´ll put some examples from here to a col.laborative experience learning to blog: Link [tallerdeblogs.com]

Thanks a lot. I´ll put some examples from here to a col.laborative experience on blogging issues: Link [tallerdeblogs.com]
This is a B2evolution design….original but simple.

Where is mine? :D

Hi. This is one more theme for this collection. Link [www.coloursinside.com]

Would you have a look at my design blog? Link [www.designforte.co.uk] It contains a lot on photography as that is now such an integral part of the websites I am working on.

I really like the clean looking blogs, the ones that are predominantly white. I’ve been thinking about starting one of my own, but when I see all the great blogs out there, I must say, it looks like a big mountain to climb for me.

Hi

I like your logo. It very impressive, many thanks. Good resources here. Thanks!

Bye

Excellent Blogs!!!! Visit my blog too pixeam.wordpress.com

Link [pixeam.wordpress.com]

I really like Reflections and Cabana templates.I would like to use for my blog.

i agree great design.

Clear and excellent design. Cool
Link [www.aryol.com.tr]

very good!~

visit my blog Link []

gret stuff here , so much under one roof
Link [www.yourkidmatters.com]

I used to think Veerle was inspired to use that color theme from DeviantArt. I wonder whether anyone agrees.

Link [www.izokon.com]