Dave Wilkinson’s Posterous

If I were a more talented designer, the Geeks are In blog would be the type of blog I’d design. I like the slightly grungy look. I love the graphical elements scattered about the place. And the pac-man references in the footer make me smile. Good effort on the design.

The content is not unique though. In fact, this is more of an archive of other people’s stuff than a blog containing original content. It was created because Twitter’s 140 characters just weren’t searchable enough (yet).

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mmmm. How awesome is this? Probably the best Thesis customization I've ever seen.

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I had this really great idea a few weeks ago. Find great looking blog designs and post them here as (a) a showcase of stuff I think is really good and (b) inspiration for my own work. Then we had a baby and nothing has happened for 4 weeks, which leads me to conclude that I'm just as useless at microblogging as I am at normal blogging.

Anyway, here's a look at Billy Tamplin's new blog. It's awesome for 2 reasons:

1. The design is lovely. Clean, calming, somewhat playful.
2. The blog posts take the form of achievement milestones. Every time Billy achieves something noteworthy, he blogs it and awards himself an achievement badge. Nice!

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My favourite WordPress-driven site of all time is without doubt icondock.com.

Not only is the site beautiful to look at but it also uses the WP e-commerce plugin perfectly, creating a clean, easy to use online store/blog/static website. If you're interested in social commerce this is the site you need to use as a reference.

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I've been searching for beautiful blog designs and came across Gaby Castellanos' blog on CSSMania. The attention to detail on this site is really something, especially on the sidebar and footer. Don't rely on the screenshot; visit the site: http://www.gabycastellanos.com.

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Just testing

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On August 27th, Stumbleupon kindly sent a ton of traffic to thinkdave.com, all to read my award-winning (not really) WordPress as a CMS post. Sadly, none of those visitors hired me to build them a WordPress theme...

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When you come across Mrs.Balls in the UK, you BUY BUY BUY!

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