You call praegnanz.de an excellent blog design? *ggg* You must be kidding.

There is some serious inspiration here… I have been considering a redesign myself and really want to now! Thanks!

TNTPixel would look a lot better without the big header picture imo. I still love the design *g*

It’s just awesome, I love Blogsolid and Cult Foo ! Very nice design.

There are some creative people here on this list.

I wonder how the people in Smashing Magazine surf the web to frequently find such high quality web sites designs to showcase.

Excellent.

Thanks Smashing, I can always rely on you for inspiration at times when I am lacking it.

Now,that’s what i call blog designs….

Thanks for yet another great post. My blog design is underway and I am designing it myself. I have been referring to your earlier posts on WP design and they came very handy for my new theme design.
Cheers!!
> Raj

Very nice, I love them.

Thanks for this list. It’s a very good inspiration… :o)

The Dilbert blog. Are you kidding me?!?

Oh :-) congrats to my very friend Polo for Split Da Diz which is being mentionned in this post !

Some great blog designs. Most of them I already knew. The Cult Foo has a superb design. Bravo !

Some of the designs up there are quite innovative and creative. Thanks for the linkage.

very cool blogs….i like how uniquely different but nicely done they all are :D

I add one, my blog : Link [www.affinity-web.org] :p

Great post like always. Really great designs.

split da diz and cult foo were new to me. :D

Thanks for the inspiration!

Where is Bittbox?

Link [www.vostoktheme.com]

Another blog to consider, well, is a theme for wp.

While i don’t think that praegnanz.de is the best amazingly well designed blog on earth i like how Gerrit works with whitespaces.

wow nice collection :o
def great inspiration…

I dont want to be vain, but check this one out, new theme, fresh and professional:
Link [andufo.com]

Greets from a concurrent reader.

I especially love “verbalized” that’s a very simple + powerful design style, I love designing, I eat, breath and burp it every day (well maybe not burp) - see below

Link [one.revver.com]

I used to be a homeless rodeo clown but now I am a world class magician !

I’m in love with Elitist Snob. Verbalized is cute, too ;)

Top notch list! I like Cult Foo’s. Great inspiration, thanks again, as always.

I think Link [www.fazewire.com] is a great web 2.0 site.

A very rich and healthy article from SM after a long time. Loved it.

Some good inspiration, thanks!!

praegnanz.de … plz ;] try to be serious guys :)

LOL, u see everybody here say: i found another great design! XD

the praegnanz.de blog should stay there anyways it may not be the most pretty design of this list. But if u like clean clear styles, thats a really good blog design

Oh no I just realised that my own blog is UGLY!!!

Mine too…oh well, that’s why I came - for inspiration.

TNTPixel looks very two point oh!

I’m wondering how TNTPixel was chosen to this list.
Open: Link [www.tntpixel.com]
Then open: Link [www.alistapart.com]
Designer when design TNT must be looked to alistapart… shame

I’ve been holding off on submitting my site to the css sites for a while, waiting for it to be fully finished… but saw this and thought why not. Take a look, Link [www.peterroper.co.uk]

Its not got all the finishing touches, but I’m really pleased with the javascript and composition

Very creative and beautiful blog designs.

The best part is that there is enough of design treasure(graphics, layouts, tutorials etc) in most of the blogs. Thank you smashing magazine.

Why is everyone so down on praegnanz.de? Have you actually been to the site?
It may not be the most graphically impressive but it is designed very well and is clean and easy to read and navigate. Isn’t that a part of good design?

Another great compilation!

So the definition or “excellent” in terms of blog design is “shit loads of wasted space”.

All of them are great designs in my oppinion, but I love the cat of evilgrin! It is just… So clean and so funny jaja

ahhhh. a fresh wave of new designs…which one will I choose…

Nice blog Blogsolid

What do you think about mine? Link [www.cristiangalletti.com]
Wordpress based and widgets for the external columns.

I think my blog has a better layout than moddular, for example… You give some nice examples, but some of them are just “ok”.

Nice list, why stop at 30?

most of these sites are found through cssremix or cssvault… while cultfoo has a nice header, I’d say its let down by its content. As much as the header is great, I dont feel inclined to read through the blog itself.

Meh, I guess it’s my personal taste, but I only like few of them.

Nice designs, but many of them have too large headers.

You guys are simply reposting the same websites that you show in all the other round-ups. For example, the “praegnanz.de” blog was featured in your “45 Excellent Blog Designs” article as well.

With my blog i try to do something simple, colorful and original: Link [www.mariejulien.com]

Nice collection. Blog solid gets my vote for best designed one.

Awesome designs! I might use one of these for my blog :)

Great post and inspirational.

Cheers

Wow, great job again. Blogs like Elitist Snob or Grantmx Designs stand as testament to how far web-design has come since flashy, glittery GIF’s and annoying MS-Frontpage made ticker messages (oh, wait, I forgot about Myspace).

I hope someday, I too can get a few bucks under my belly and buy me a unique domain to do some freelance designing. Until then, I’m Link [atunu.blogspot.com] :(

its a good collection of blogs and reference site.

Hi Mr. Lennartz, I’m a PR student at the University of South Florida and we are studying the growing popularity of blogging. If I wanted to get an influential blogger’s attention such as you, how would I go about getting my issue out to the masses?

Nice list, but IMHO some of them shouldn’t be on the list :)

awesome list — some of them (eg CultFoo) I want to dive right in!

xx
Anita

Nice themes! what should i do if i want use it on my blog?

Nice collection!!!! could be some more web 2.0 ones though

praegnanz.de is really good; it’s obviously designed to be read (check out the attention to leading and margins, and the measure). Most of these are graphically superb, but that doesn’t make them great design.

Hi Igor,

Save for the navigation, which looks kind of similar I guess, I fail to see any other similarities.

I based my design of various newspaper clippings I have laying around in my house. That’s the look I was going for. Kind of like old newspaper sections. I think ALA is going for a similar “old print” kind of look, and in that regard, that particular headline style is a very very used formula in print. Go ahead, get some newspapers, you’ll see.

Unoriginal? mmm, perhaps. Plagiarism? NEVER.

You should inform yourself better before pointing your finger, Igor. Plagiarism is a very nasty thing, I don’t condone it, and I don’t do it.
I looked at your site, and I could assume you copied it from a MYRIAD of other sites that look identical to yours. But I understand that it’s obvious that you will run into many many similarities through some sites (especially when you are trying to mimic a particular style, like print).

Plagiarism is by far the worst thing you can call a designer, but I assume you don’t know that since you are clearly not one yourself… shame.

I have nothing to say they are really excellent themes. I hope one day i can design myself.

really cool! but my website looks better

good job design.. i love most of all that design! awesome!

a lot of good stuff!

After seeing Blogsolid I want to hide my blog somewhere deep ;

Wow there are some great blog designs there. I love Elitist Snob and Cult foo

Let’s say there was a writer who had an appreciation for design and an artistic inclination, but sucked technically…how would said person go about making his or her blog as cool looking as some of these? Hypothetically speaking of course.

Hi, love your information here. I am a blog newbie, and I write in Chinese. Is it OK to translate this post in Chinese and link to your page?
Thanks,
cellocoffee

Hey Casey, I’m the person who did Tickerville above and I’m happy for my client that it was included here. My suggestion to you is to pick up a book list CSS Mastery and open up your mind to thinking in terms of CSS. CSS wasn’t my forte when I begin that site, but I found the book to be crucial in turning designs into an actual site.

My advice is to pick up a copy of CSS Mastery by Andy Budd and make it your new Bible. I barely knew CSS when I did Tickerville but that book helped me execute the design pretty faithfully. The biggest thing is having patience. With a lot of patience and reading the right books, you’ll be stunned with what you can do in a few weeks.

Sorry for the double post above guys, my mistake.

really cool! but my website looks better

wow, great designs!

Hmmn, Jrvelasco blog looks similar to Dept. of Spanish & Portuguese of UC Berkeley site. Too similar.
Take a look and compare: Link [spanish-portuguese.berkeley.edu]

He designed both of them:
Link [www.miguelripoll.com]

The SuperJam Blog running on blogger is pretty cool. I would never have guessed it was powered by blogger.
Link [www.superjam.co.uk]

well as always smashing magazine have great post. i would like to pass this one that i love the design as the post. Link [www.edgarmanuel.com], see this one.

Very nice designs! I need to revamp my own.

I LOVE Jared Christensens blog!

Great templates, but no mention of which blogging platform they are from. I am only interested in 3 column Blogger templates and I clicked on “TNT pixels” and that lead to a blog, no template download link. Plus at the bottom of the page, it says, “proudly powered by Wordpress”. At least let visitors know what blogging service the templates are for. Don’t know if you read or respond to comments. And hope you don’t consider the links in my signature lines as spam or advertisement.

Peter Link [buzz.blogger.com]
Link [blogger-tricks.blogspot.com]

Check this one out Link [www.ttthings.com] Clean and dark, very hard to find this days.

Very, very, very nice designs!!!
Congratulations!

Link [www.wizinga.com]

very nice and thank the collection.

I’m integrating a Wordpress blog at this moment, into my existing website. Maybe I get some inspiration out of those designs. I like the layouts, but I prefer more simplistic ones.

I wish I could find the Jared Christensen design but I wasn’t able to.

Good! I’d like to make as them.

great looking blogs!

Great Post! I love it!

First of all I d’like to say. This blogs have lots of imfomation and thay all imfomation is very important for me. Link [www.breastenlargementx.com]

Great design, i hope one day, mine will be in Smashing Magazine ! :) [ Link [www.chewythascratchynutz.com] ]

love 80% of those designs, the other 20% is totally commonplace