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There are several beautiful designs in the roundup, I also discovered a few well-written gem of blogs.

great!! foodtease is really a nice design … well done!

there are like 5 that are totally boring….. plain, ugly, no thought put into them. You may say simplistic is best but they look like the person doesn’t even care

That Skylab design should be removed, it is using graphics ripped off from Jeff Sarmiento’s blog http://www.jeffsarmiento.com/ (which has been featured here in the past)

Great !!

I guess this is all about look and style, not usability? I clicked on the “Markup & Style” blog and while it looks pretty, the navigation is poor. The logo/header doesn’t hyperlink to the site main page. The site name is embedded only as a background image, so someone who couldn’t see images wouldn’t even know what site they were on. Once you click on an entry title to view the full entry there’s no way to get back to the main view again without clicking the browser back button. The RSS sidebar link takes you to a 404 page. The archive link takes you to some page with a totally different design and postage stamp sized iframes. Also, the page doesn’t validate.

Hey, thanks! I’m honored to be in the same listing as these other sites, and many are new to me. Good stuff.

OH! Thanks. I know, that my site is not very usable, but I just wanted to do stuff different.

Thanks, that you like it :D

Glad to be associated with this inspiring designs. Thanks for the link!

Great list indeed – thanks for the inspiration.

These are astounding. Countless great design ideas.

I love you guys.

Douglas Menezes Rocks! Great designer!

Thanks for the feature (Brown Blog Films). You guys rock! Never imagined that site would make it onto Smashing Mag but hey, I ain’t complaining ;)

You’ve listed some really nice sites there. Ok, judging by some of the comments they’re not to everyones tastes. However, getting creative with blog designs under the confines of the now ubiquitous blog format, can be challenging to say the least so I commend everyone for their efforts. Also, a big-up to the unsung heroes of this post, the developers who make these sites work!

Great post. Really got my creative juices flowing. Anyone for a blog? :)

There are some great designs in this list but I’ve got to say others look really poor …

Thanks (:

Wow i great list of inspiration…
great ;)

pulento

I think even color blind people would cringe at moradito. My eyes keep darting back n fourth. Bold, yes… readable, slightly… with a headache.

I got 3 really great ideas from this fairly primo list. ty

tehCpeng not theCpeng

Bloody solid collection of beautiful blog!!

Love this list. Very helpful when starting a web design project.
Thanks

great post…… Thanks

Nice collection!!!!!

Very good collection of inspiration Blog design. Thanks SM!!

Fantastic works.
were all these designs created for wordpress?

This is a fantastic list and I’m honored to be featured along side such great names. Thank you!

Wow, this is huge! In fact, big enough to keep me busy through the day. Exploring these new ideas will inspire a lot of people out there. Blogs can be used as a platform through which designers can demonstrate their original and unique ideas. I personally liked “Duiwaigh”, it’s very classy. Thanks.

Awesome collection.. feel like improving my blog after seeing such fantastic designs..

great selection but i see all the design are US blog design. Why french blog aren’t in the list ?? :D

cool blog !! nice webdesign !

Some good sites, the one that caught my eye was http://www.nalden.net. Maybe the first time I have seen a blog designed in flash but the results are spectacular. Well done on such good work!

Great article,
Realy inspiring stuff in there!

Some nice designs, but a lot are pure eye candy and not comfortable to read. Good “design” should not only attract but assist the user to get what they want out of the site, i.e. read the bloody blog! To be fair, you did say this post was about “beautiful” blogs, not necessarily well designed…

well, i cant not believe that people are actully saying that this is a good collection!

The designs are crap, where is the creativity….. just creating a background image for a web page does not make it a good design!

You guys really need to do better!

Great blogs!!! the first one is awesome.
Here is another nice blog : Blup

Awsome collection. Thank you

I’m so glad and honoured to be featured here! You don’t even know how much I admire SM :)
Thank you so muuuch!

Nice list

Some great ones in the list! However there are a few not displaying well for Mac Firefox 2…?

Nice collection

very cool, some of them are extremely simple but their use of fonts and layout and simple background with great lighting makes it so classy. love it. i want to make one like those some day.

I was casually looking for inspiration and low and behold, my site is featured. Many thanks Smashing!

makes me want to design a site right now!

@ rmlumley “I agree that readability is always the #1 concern.” Don’t mistake legibility for content – said David Carson ;) Very often text can’t transport all the content. Always keep that in mind!

some stunning designs there, really inspiring

nice collection :)

and somebody of webzurnal.cz/webdesign/50-nadhernych-blog-designu published the same article (copy), i think thay have no permission…

VERY GOOD……CONGRATS IEMAI

These are some sweet sites.

Here are a few of my favorite sites that are built in WordPress.

Ok so i decided to make a personal website. I go and learn HTML, learn CSS, learn some basic JAVAScript and then I happen upon this page.
What the f. How can I match these blogs? I dont have an inkling of creativity in me and I sure as hell cant settle for anything less than awesome. wtf

Not loving all of them – some are the very definition of ‘minimalist’, and others are so busy and over-designed they give me a headache. Still, a great collection for inspiration!