Awesome list, thanks :-)

I love it!, great, really impressive work

Great list of weblogs – I wish my day had more than 24 hours to have a look at all of them…

Em am I the only one who sees that David Hellmann ripped off electric pulp???

Link [electricpulp.com]

Link [www.davidhellmann.com]

Yay for iso50 … Tycho is some good music

Very Pretty Weblogs

I liked erraticwisdom.com, but once you enter the site you discover that you cant read more than 4 lines with that fantastic font they use…

Plavackuv Blabolnik is in czech slang ;) and it means something like “Babbling of Plavacek” and Plavacek is name of author ;)

When I was searching for a plugin I’ve found a courious spanish blog that look’s great: Link [www.berriart.com]

Those are so beautiful, thanks for a bit more inspration

I love Erratic Wisdom, and if you check out where he came from (in terms of his previous designs - in the archive) I think it’s pretty remarkable.

Looking forward to the day my site design is on par with these… I am, admittedly, an rank amateur (!!) and a big geeky fan of web design. Oh well, it’s fun… and super great to continually be inspired by the sites you guys feature. Thanks.

@Keith - yes, I see where you’re coming from.

Thanks SmashingMagazine - a great selection of inpiration!

awesome……
pretty cool

Some really stella design work

really cool sites. thank you guys.

Great list of blogs. I wish I could design my websites like that.

Thanks again guys, this is an amazing list.

I think this one Link [reinholdweber.com] would fit pretty well in the clean and simple category

Plavacek is not author’s name but nickname. Author’s name is Miloslav Leseticky.

nice list

very nice selection as usual ..

thanks

Really nice stuff! I think that one fits as well: Link [www.pixelgraphix.de].

I really like Link [nitram-nunca.com] and Link [www.brianjeremy.com]

Dark colored backgrounds have a nice comfortable feel to me

I think you forgot to mention this site: Link [timothysykes.com]

great examples. inspirational too.

Thanks for featuring my site (erraticwisdom)!

@Rolando Bouza:
Are you talking about the body font? It’s 12px Helvetica which is usually pretty easy to read. It renders oddly on PC’s, but I don’t think it comes with Windows by default.

@Daniel Holter:
Thanks again man!

The archives he’s talking about can be found Link [erraticwisdom.com]. Some of my earlier versions are pretty hideous, but I keep ‘em around so I can always remember how crappy of a designer I think I’ll be in a year.

In the name of the whole team, specially Franziska, our designer: Thanks very much!

Thanks for those wonderful examples. Amazing!

“…Em am I the only one who sees that David Hellmann ripped off electric pulp???…”

That is exactly what I thought as soon as I saw it.

Excellent list!
Link [www.sketche-d.com] didn’t make it? awww. jk!

Keep up the good work guys!

check out this one. i think it has an interesting design, even if from my point of view they still have to do a little more work Link [www.divercitycafe.ro]

Thanks a lot for mentioning my site!

awesome collection! Thank you indeed.

I’m honoured to have my blog listed alongside such great sites, thanks very much. :)

nice collection…thanks for sharing :)

Am I the only one who is worried about the (color)noise of most of the pages? Some are so bad that i can hardly read them. And could someone please shoot down this electricpulp copiest? Man i hate it when people just copy!

nevertheless, although i can find flaws with nearly every design, i do like the list because there are some fine examples on it.

Very very nice blog designs. My favourite is the Qwertcity.

I love these designs, the creativity behind them is just phenomenal! Kudos to the designers and thanks for posting this.

You left out one! Link [www.FireBettman.com]
Great site!

Thanks so much for featuring my blog’s design (PushStandards.com), I’m honored! I’ll just go link back to you now :)

Totally awesome guys, thanks for posting my blog :)

And keep up with the AWESOME site you guys have!!!

I think Link [project47.viscountbox.com] has an excellent design too!

Bravo! A rather impressive list of some quite “smashing” designs. :D

A kind “thank you” for your generous inclusion. Best regards, B

Link [www.kongregate.com]

great selection as usual..
*inspiration….

Hi there,

thanks for this compilation, but you forgot my layout. Its much prettier than some of the above mentioned, so please correct this :-)

Best Regards from Berlin
Link [blog.tobiwei.de]

Nice post, like always :)

Fantastic list as always ^_^ any update for beautiful free blog designs?

and where is the rip?
they looks like electricpulp but at last, is see two different sides. and any have made a good job.
i think the mainproblem is, the colors are similar but brown and beige is a good combo…

i see no problem there, sorry

Check this out

sirehdancengkeh.com change the rotating image function for random quotes, cool.

Nice bloglist. However (not to sound too critical), how about a list of something other than portfolios/blogs/personal sites? I’d like to see some examples of more conservative, elegant corporate sites - small businesses, realtors, travel agents, hotels, that kinda thing. Blogs are a dime a dozen, its just so rare (and I guess harder) to make a good list of business sites, which after all, are the bread and butter of any web designer.

As much as I love grunge ink splashes and tattered frames, or glowing light tentacles, your Joe Schmo realtor rarely goes for the outrageous, and Id like to see what fresh ideas other designers come up with when they are somewhat limited in their creativity.

Big list,
where is my Link [www.imaginepaolo.com]?

What is an excellent? OMG! These are shit.

Great list.
And thanks for linking Papel Continuo.

Great bloglist, thumbs up!

Pretty nice list!

interesting list, but you must include webdesignerwall and ndesign studio also bittbox, i think they are qualified to be listed here.

This is a nice list just for website design alone.

I’ve also been listening to the Rissington Pod cast for a while now and have been really enjoying it. I know it’s not visual, but the “best podcasts” relating to design and development would be a really cool list.

Wow… thank you so much! It’s an honour to be mentioned on here.

Just so everyone’s aware… I’m working diligently to get my site back online… I wasn’t expecting nearly this many people coming to my site in the last little while…

I’ll let you know when it’s back online.

Pat

The site is back up!

I love my web host :)

Pat

Very very nice all of them. Thanks for sucha good job. Papel continuo is the best for me! papelcontinuo.net

太好了! 谢谢!

Great list of sites, guys. I read updates through my feed, but this is actually the first time I’ve commented here. Like others before have said, thanks for including us in your list and keep up the fantastic work.

Very nice list!

Strange list. Some are beautifulls, others like Sam Rayner, ttthings.com, Jamie Knight, Wesh or Kulturbanause are not interesting : just basic templates :(

I like this ones

Link [www.monsieur-alex.com]
and
Link [splitdadiz.com]

Hope you like Link [www.dailygrind.it]. Ciao!

Great list, how about this one for simple?

Link [www.darrenalawi.com]

Keith (February 20th, 2008, 9:52 am)

Em am I the only one who sees that David Hellmann ripped off electric pulp???

Link [electricpulp.com]

Link [www.davidhellmann.com]

Ripped off? Inspired by perhaps, the colorscheme is similar and the blog is divided up in a similiar layout. But the overall creative concepts of theese sites are quite diferent.

Very very nice ! thanks

Great collection!

very interesting list.

Nice work. I’m proud to be part of your collection. Thank you so much!
Link [www.QwertCity.com]

Nice collection, nice designs! I wish I had their artistic skills. :)

cool list. thanks

very fantastic,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,i m a regular vistor of ,the SMASHING.COM

THNKS TO ALL THE TEAM….AND PRAY FOR HAPPINESS .
OK

Thanks a lot for featuring our site Link [www.schneeballschl8.de]
Keep the good work!

See’ya
Leif

wow, inspiring collection.

I can see your hard work in that great list.Keep it up.
Your lists are inspiring me

Enjoyed that list!
Thanks

Thanks for the list Smashing! Great for inspiration.

…and here’s my requisite & shameless plug for my frehsly-hatched redesign: Link [www.carbongraffiti.com].

Cheers!

thx for add my site…
thx for delete my site…

but really good pages!

great collection!

again great article!

There have been many sections on Blog design in the past and this is inspiring me to start my own. Thanks for these refereshing designs.

Great selecting of very inspiring designs.

Not all blog designs are my taste, but there are much ideas like always.

Thank you for your great summry about blog design from past until now….

From Germany

Ralph

awesomeness! keep it up.

- yayix Link [papermodeluniverse.blogspot.com]

Nice layouts ! :D

Thanks for showing us the variety of unique blogs. Very nice.

i’d like to add a german blog to this awesome list
Link [www.projekt-deutschlandreise.de]

think it fits perfectly

this design is very talent. designers feeling the atmosphere of our time with speed, replacing actions and culture of young people

Hey! Ripp off?? Thats a bad comment there…. Yes there is a small similarity to the background but nothing more than this. Getting inspiration from another website or other designers is not unsual tactic.

Just a quick heads up to everyone who’s been checking out patdryburgh.net. A few weeks ago I changed the design, and stopped using my large RSS Icon. However, a few days ago I did make it available for download on my portfolio at Link [atrickdesign.com]. Just go to the blog section, and download the .zip which contains a transparent .png of the icon.

Enjoy!

thanks cordoba

Todos estan muy buenos, gracias smashingmagazine por el listado, ojala algun día quiero estar entre ellos

Link [xprograf.blogspot.com,] Link [photoshopea.blogspot.com]

gracias

Great list!

but, why not this one?
Link [defectosespeciales.blogspot.com]

it’s mine! (just kiddin’ lol)

thanks!