20 Creative Blog Designs

Though many people use their blogs for commerce and advertising, the main idea for weblog is to introduce the blog owner to other people and tell about his personality. And usually a blog design can tell you more about its owner than the text this person publishes on the page. Whether it's grunge or minimal, retro style or web 2.0 - the same will our first impression of the author be.

Even if you don't try to personalize the style of your blog design and use a template or a theme, still the way you organize the information on the page will make a great contribution to your online appearance.
There are many ways to attract attention to your blog and make it look creative and unlike the others. You can use an unusual layout, artistic fonts, creative images and many other ways to express your personality. The main thing you need to remember is that no matter how much you want to use various creative and catchy elements on your web page, you've got to calm down. A too overcrowded page distracts visitor's attention and usually is annoying too. Design always means seeking some kind of a balance, and on how good you can do this depends how good you are as a designer.

Everyone has his personal merit for creativity and elegance, a personal sense of beauty.

For this collection of blog page designs I tried to select web designs that impress you for some (certain or uncertain) reason.
I hope you will take a minute to look through them.

Chris Jennings



A cute blog design with a marine-style background.

Joe Longstreet



I like the font in logo and the sand color background.

Matt Dempsey



An extremely juicy orange color blog design.

Travis Gertz



Black and white combination looks fantastic for all kinds of websites, so it does for blogs.

Binary Bonsai



A very neat black and white minimalistic blog design.

Griffinabox



A nice teenage style blog design.

Owltastic



I guess this website can be nominated not only as a great blog design. I like the fonts, the color and even the owl picture!

Chris Brummel



The color combination is rather unusual and very elegant. This blog design is worth being put to the top list.

Jare Digital



A very clean blog design in nice colors. Looks very neat.

Creative and Live



An almost plain white design, though looks nice and pleasant.

The Old State



The retro style blog design in black and white colors and classic newspaper fonts. Looks really stylish.

Octwelve



I think the colors and the cartoon style are wonderful. The page looks very different from most of the designs.

Lady Omega



I like the combination of magenta color in header and purple color of fonts on the dark background.

Pasquale D'Silva



I like the background of light cyan color and the general look of this blog design.

JRVelasco



A very catchy and creative blog design, the web designer did a nice job. In fact, this website looks more like a painting rather than like a web page.

Spoon Graphics



The brown colors look very stylish.

Mark Forrester



A wonderful hand drawn blog design. Visiting this website leaves an impression like after reading a good story.

ABriefMessageDotCom



A white space blog, looks very clean and minimalistic.

Valentina Olini



I liked this blog design for its simplicity and colors.

Instablog



Actually this page looks more like a magazine or newspaper page, other than web page. Nice.


Creating web blog demands the ability to draw a portrait using web design tools and texts. As a designer you are free to experiment, though you always need to remember that what you do is targeted to the audience and that your success will depend on the common opinion.

19 Single Page Websites You Will Like

May be every designer will agree with me that a single page website is probably harder to design than any other kind of web site. Sounds like a paradox? It's not.
Can you imagine a single-page book? With a title, a preface, a story, an index etc. And can you imagine how hard it is to make your story so perfect that it could be reduced to one page? If you ever read Japanese poetry you know what I am talking about.
The same thing with single-page websites. You've got to manage to present all the information on a single web page, to make sure it will be easy to navigate through you website, and also create a design that will serve to all these purposes. And even more, you still need to care about how unique and creative your design is.
Still I have a belief that the impression, created by a single page website is often much more whole and solid, than the impression, created by several/many pages websites.
Below I tried to collect some one-page websites that catch your attention either with their design, or with the navigation solution, or anything else.

Kino



An oustanding graphic work. I also liked the color switcher.

ColourPixel



Nice and bright, the design stands for the name.

Think Green



I love the colors and the background.

TheGreatBeardedReef



Take a look and the background: I liked the conception.

Fish Marketing



Catchy pictures. The fish looks delicious!

Fajne Chlopaki



1 page + 2 colors = nice job!

C-People



I like the concision.

Mogulista



A single page website design with nice color combination.

SocialSnack



Wonderful colors.

Tyrale



Nice and unusual.

Jiri Tvrdek



I liked the navigation and the gallery.

Slimkiwi



Superior fonts.

Bullet PR



A single page website, designed in retro style.

Annisnaeem



A very simple and elegant single-page design.

Luke Larsen



Extra points for the water.

LegWorksStudio



Rather unusual with funny sketches. Pay a special attention to the menu: an extraordinary idea!

Orman Clark



A nice one-page website with cartoony drawings.

MplusZ



Is pleasant to look at.


Web Dots



Long, narrow, unusual.

Single-page websites is a category where you are very likely to find unique and interesting designs, as to create such a website the web designer has to do a great job trying to organize all the info and optimizing the navigation.