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There are things one can do a number of times without worrying about becoming boring. For instance, collecting and showcasing excellent blog designs. In this post we do it already the fifth time. Why? Web design lives in blogs; new developments appear there, that’s where the music plays. And that’s where you need to look for in order to keep up with current trends and developments.

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Regular readers of this blog will know that we've been mixed up in a fantastically engaging online campaign by a group called 7thSyndikate. We were initially sent an email from them at the beginning of September: "Don't turn away from...

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As we mentioned a while back, we've been getting some strange email communications from a group called 7thsyndikate.They've led us a merry modern dance, which even took us via the classified ads of a London newspaper. Sometimes it felt like...

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Choosing blogging software can be a scary process, especially if you are new to blogging. There are many different types of engines and content management systems (CMS) that could be used. Picking the software that you’ll need is not an easy task, given the wide variety and types on the Web today.

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Last week we presented the first results of our study of top blogs. As promised, this week we publish the second part of the survey, including further findings and problem solutions we have found out during the study. In the first part we discussed layout design and typographic settings. What remains to be covered are the navigation design, information architecture, advertisements and functionality (RSS-feeds, tag clouds, pagination etc.).

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We are quite curious; particularly when it comes to design and web-development we want to know just everything. Therefore, following our web form design survey, we have decided to take a closer look at blog designs, analyze them and find out which design solutions are common and which solutions are not used at all.

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We hate to smug off, but our good friend Charlie over at the distinctly wonderful Tantramar has just posted an interview with Alistair as part of his series of interviews with artists, designers and illustrators, which currently also features Seripop...

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Swelling the ranks of blogs by designers, Graphic Journey Blog should be worth keeping an eye on. It's the new blog from Mike Dempsey, one of the founders of CDT Design, now out and about doing his own thing as...

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Designing blogs is easy. Designing blogs in a unique way is hard. Whatever blog engine you are using, there are literally thousands of templates available which you can apply directly, without any significant code modifications. That's efficient, but it's not creative, because using a default blog-template you risk to end up with some wide-spread look which has actually nothing to do with you. To convey your personality effectively, you need a design which reflects who you are and what you are doing.

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Our friend Andy over at Now in Colour has set up an interesting project that kicks off today. He's been asking the great and the good of the creative industry to post up their old college work, as part of...

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Reference Library is the fantastic blog from Philadelphia based designer Andy Beach (you can see some of his work in the recent book of hand drawn type Hand Job ). The blog is principally a pictorial compendium of the various...

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