Ten Most Inspirational Design Aesthetics for Blogs
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The Kaleidoscope archives and showcases the best of image works throughout the world according to certain topics. The series will be covering illustration, vector graphic, photography, digital arts, architecture and almost every kind of visually designed arts we find noteworthy. If you have any suggestions, please leave a comment or email at writer[a]marisaduma.net.
By applying artistic accentuations in each web elements provided in the blog-powered content management, the featured blogs in this present The Kaleidoscope list introduce a new range in the practice of web design for the Web 2.0 environment. The artists, or should we say the coders, prove that creating an original design aesthetics for blogs is an essential technique of optimizing style, structure, and substance; it brings vibrancy in every precise details and overall design theme to the surface. Either in a minimalistic form or an eccentric one, either experimenting with coffee stains, paper notes, fabric textures, hand writings, or watercolour illustrations, blogs are becoming canvases for the digital artists to paint on and inspire from. Sweet and primal.
So what are you waiting for? Open your abandoned AI files, do some CSS hacks, and make art.
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electric pulp
Biola Blogs
Web Designer Wall
Phil’s Proof
Mindtwitch Interactive
CSSAddict
I Am Neato
Viget Labs: Inspire
Verbalized
N.Design Studio
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33 Artistic Sites – Web Designer Wall
Best WordPress Sites — N.Design Studio
100 Nice and Beautiful Blog Design
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Speak for yerself! You haven’t drawn anything in ages! Tsk.
Useful links to check out. Thanks Cha! ^______^
therry’s last blog post..100 Things.
dude, you said anal.
@ LilyOfTheValley
I did! How about you? Ready to get rid of those stats, and get back to the art business?
I’ve also been planning a total makeover for this blog. Problem is, more graphics means heavier load.
@ therry
You’re welcome!
@ Za
edited.
That just sounds like an excerpt from one of my Harlequins novels.
Mmm….
therry’s last blog post..100 Things.
Yeay c’mon!.. Let’s do a makeover!
So all of the sites listed above are Wordpress blogs?
Hm.. Can you give a tutorial on how to modify the CSS with AI then? Okay, I understand AI but I still don’t understand how we could transform it into CSS in Wordpress..
Giving a tutorial means I’d have to open another blog, for the screenshots and everything. I’d give one when I’m ready to do a full makeover of this blog.
Here’s a brief one:
1. Get your illustration ready. Be sure that the illustration flow with the layout your basic theme has.
2. Draw, draw, draw. Finished.
3. Create image slices of the illustration according to the theme’s layout. Save for Web.
4. Edit the CSS file of the WordPress theme. Insert each image slice for each parts of the blog structure. Header, sidebars, footer, etc.
5. Experiment and make further corrections from there. Font styles, colours, buttons, and so on.
6. Ta-da! You’re ready.
Easier said than done though.
Very interesting info
helpful for internet newbie such as me.
Thanks for the article
Kinda nicely written actually.
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