45 Excellent Blog Designs - Monetize your Blogs

Weblogs powered by Django

Ryan Berg (Django)

Derek Featherstone (Django)

Jeff Croft (Django)

Andy Hume (Django)

Weblogs powered by ExpressionEngine

Jesse Bennett-Chamberlain (Expression Engine)
Whitespace in use. The categories and popular entries are listed at the top of the page, not in the sidebar as they usually are.

Veerle Pieters
An almost “classic”, well-known design, but still incredibly beautiful. Veerle makes use of a dark layout with quite colourful scheme. The result is impressive – and the position of site elements extremely well thought-out.

Emanuel Blagonic (Expression Engine Wordpress)

Weblogs powered by MovableType

Kevin Kornell (Movable Type)
A typical weblog doesn’t look like an illustrated magazine. Kevin Kornell’s blog does. This one makes use of an “oldie”-style.

Cameron Moll

Dave Shea (Movable Type)

Dan Cederholm (Movable Type)

Weblogs powered by Textpattern

Praegnanz.de (Textpattern)
A minimalistic approach with clean web-typography.

Hicksdesign (Textpattern)

Geniant (Textpattern)

Blogs powered by Wordpress

Circle Six (Wordpress)

Pedro Lamin (Wordpress)
Fresh and clean design, lacking almost everything – there is even no navigation in blog categories.

Design Disease (Wordpress)

Surfgarden (Wordpress)

Dan Rubin (Wordpress)

NorthxEast (Wordpress)

Larissa Meek (Wordpress)

Matt (Wordpress)
A Business-Design. Look at the information sections on the left side of the layout.

Agenturblog (Wordpress)

Ben Gillbanks (Wordpress)

Rik Catlow (Wordpress)

FreelanceSwitch (Wordpress)

John Boardley (Wordpress)

Shaun Inman (Wordpress custom PHP-Framework. Thanks, Shaun)

Mstefan.com (Wordpress)

Screenz (Wordpress)

Screencasting (Wordpress)

Blog.Critical (Wordpress)

Wan Zafran (Wordpress)

Viki (Wordpress)
Extensive use of visual elements prevails; it might be a nice idea, but the content should prevail.

Nick La (Wordpress)
Playful design with dozens of swirls, curves and artistic elements.

Laura Alter (Wordpress)

Markus Zeeh (Wordpress)
Playful flower-images and ornaments seem to be trends.

Sidney Collins (Wordpress)

Roman Leinwather (Wordpress)

Bottled Sky (Wordpress)
Probably not the most gorgeous layout ever made, but well-structured. The use of colors communicates the idea of the site.

Johanna Hallin (Wordpress)

Cabana (Wordpress)
Sometimes it is an interesting approach to use a “thin” layout, although it should rather be an exception.

Reflections (Wordpress)

Further Weblogs

Abduzeedo (Drupal)
Stylish, readable and clean. The site doesn’t look like blog at all – at least at the first glance.

Jonathan Snook (CakePHP)