Blogcrowds: Your blog, above the crowd
Webium/DESIGN
July 19 – Blogs compete for eyes, but only if they're truly competitive. Most blogs don't even come close.
A blogger is a one-man shop: Writer, reporter, editor, designer, advertiser, artist, promoter, and sometimes even an audience of one. The best bloggers are either good at everything, or learn from the best when they need it.
Today I'm recommending Blogcrowds, a site where designers share the best of their open-source blog templates, compatible with Blogger, Wordpress, and Gecko and Fly. Some of them are original, like this one, and others are modified templates from the sites mentioned.
Blogcrowds takes the best templates and makes them better. They also have an online forum where you can post questions and get help from the community.
Yesterday I redesigned my home site, www.paulklenk.us, using a beautiful template by Ian Main called Green Marinée. Ian created it in blue and orange variations as well, so I chose blue for my site, as my colors were already established and I liked them too well to change them.
With a bit of tweaking (see related article), I was able to make it look exactly the way I wanted. Now I'm on to redesigning my political site, LoudCitizen.org, using the classic Green Marinée in the three column format.
– Paul Klenk, Webium