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

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

Thanks!

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

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

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.

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?

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

Wow … talk about a wordpress overload ;) !

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

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…

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

Thanks a lot!

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

great! list! but
alistapart .com ?

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

nice post people

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.

Hi, here’s another clean blog design, powered by Textpattern: http://www.puredesign.ro

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 current discussion – more appropriate to talk about “excellent blog decorations”, I fear.

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

Nice list anyways!

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?

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

KUTGW

What about blogs powered by Blogger?

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..! :)

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

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!

I use Karma Sites 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!

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.

You’re being unfair 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: http://atunu.blogspot.com

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

Very nice blog list … Beautiful designs!

faggots

Just amazing! Thanks for sharing.

Very, very, very nice! Very nice!

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

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

from Russia
the good blogs/ Cabana (Wordpress)

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 !

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

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…

WOW! great designs

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

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 – http://www.perlina.co.uk/blog/

Nice collection. I will like to use one of these

Excelente recopilación, realizaré un post en mi blog NestaVista para recomendarlo.
Saludos y los felicito por el gran trabajo realizado.

exellent idea and choice!!

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.

Really great designs and useful inspirations!

great wordpress themes.thanx for sharing

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 on blogging issues:
This is a B2evolution design….original but simple.

Hi. This is one more theme for this collection. WP Theme

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.

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

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

very good!~

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

Hello Dear,
Your article is really so good and its so easy to making ya creating a blog its no neccessary your blog match with every one blog, can create differ from others .

its very nice good project.

Ciekawa strona, bede ja odwiedzal czesciej, pozdro

nice and cool designs.

Thank you so much for this free menu
http://www.alanya.biz

Where’s the symphony blogs like atomised.coop/blog

nice and cool designs.

Автар молодец. Подписался на блог.
P.s. как можно обменяться с вами ссылками?

I think a list like this would be so much more valuable if you were providing significant commentary as to why you liked them. You have a note on a few to give an idea, but even that comes up way short if your goal is to teach newbie designers like myself about good design.

If good design is about maximizing usability and functionality in an attractive package, and I think it is (tell me if you don’t), then expounding on how these sites, or others in the next list you do, achieve that objective, even in part, would make the effort Much more useful. Otherwise it’s just a list of pretty sites, something we can get anywhere.

Thankyou so much for this free menu.

Oh yeah sultanhot.bblog.mn

Once again – a fantastic wordpress/blog reference.

Thanks. I’ve searched hard for these themes.

Excellent Ideas…. I ll really going to try designs for my blogs(www.topsandseats.com)

That’s really wonderful design.

Search for beautiful design for the site on movable type. But there are not enough templates…

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