Wordpress Wednesdays: Design Inspiration
Posted on June 18th, 2008
They say that having quality content is the most important aspect to running a successful blog, but humans are visual animals and they want their information displayed in an aesthetically-pleasing manner. It’s hard to get through this first filter when your blog is all cluttered and looks like junk. No one is going to find your quality content if they find your blog to be absolutely hideous. At the same time, it’s also important to have a unique design so that you can distinguish yourself from the rest of the blogosphere.
Where, then, can you look for inspiration in terms of creating a unique blog design? Even if you are not able to code the custom theme yourself, you should be able to approach the person who will be designing and/or coding your blog template with some idea of what you want. Sure, you could randomly surf around the ‘net and see what sorts of websites you like on an aesthetic level, but why do that when someone else has already done that for you?
I came across a site called We Love WP and it is basically one massive Wordpress blog design gallery. They’ve compiled some of the best looking Wordpress-powered websites out there. I’m not saying that you should copy these designs, but they could point you in a certain direction and toward a certain type of theme. The individual sites are displayed as thumbnails and clicking through brings you to the full sites.
If you want to promote your own unique Wordpress blog design, you can also submit your blog to We Love WP as well. It’s a win-win situation for everyone involved.
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Thanks Gary! This is really cool. I have been thinking of re-design. Not sure how I feel about it yet. But will check these out!
I have been to that site before, it is a very good compilation, and good for reference also.
I really recommend submitting your WordPress powered site to this gallery, it’s given me a lot of unique hits in the two weeks since I submitted my site.
Great site. I submitted my site and I got featured!
Check it out!
http://welovewp.com/
Darin