http://weblogawards.org/ hosted by wizbang.
Ok so we’re up for best blog design here:
Best Blog Design

So what I’ve done is gone through and looked at all the current sites that are designed well. Of course we think we have the best because well, its had many many redesigns and we have an artist that is the best.

1. Wetwired #1 yeah! But look, Using Movable type, Clean looking with great cartoons, and post icons that match. You can tell a lot of time and effort goes into wetwired.

2. Dizzy Girl always has multiple designs ranging from really cool to kinda blah.. right now the current skin she is using doesn’t stand out. I do hand it to her, she puts some serious effort into her friday posts!

3. The shape of days I have to hand it to them, they got a professional designer like moi, to design it. Its very good, the CSS layout is the way to go. I view this is real competition. - Update the professional designer/coder/”they” is just Jeff the owner of the blog. - Thanks Jeff for clarifying.

4. My Vast Right Wing Conspiracy Also not done by the author of the blog, professionally designed.. mostly. But listen, if its a right wing conspiracy, why are all the graphics on the left?!

5. Sharp as a Marble Using a notbook style layout, which has been done before, but it still looks like they put in effort. What would have been cooler is that if the posts would have been on the lines of the notebook instead of a white box on top of it.

6. Gentlemen Prefer Blogs Decent graphics, the professionally designed look - and in fact it is, nice little graphics for the posts too.

7. Lord Boom Boom These guys are bringing up the rear, the image is kinda cool, but nothing really stands out as being clean and consise. I guess the color scheme just bugs me.

8. Just a girl in the world Its clean, all the graphics mesh together.

9. Scrubbles They are so so, its better than some of the others on blogger still.

10. LJC FYI Themed for fall colors, interesting little cartoons, kinda similar to wetwired, not bad.

So there you have it, the ones that currently stand out against the crowd, the rest are using default templates of blogger or movable type, or really haven’t put any effort into designing. Or maybe you have, but it doesn’t show. Having a good design on your blog takes a lot of though out work and some artistic talent, form follows function.

Tags: design, web, Weblog_Awards, wetwired
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