There were some great posts written over the past week or so relating to web design, blog systems, and blog themes. Below is a collection (or roundup, whatever you want to call it), of inspiration, motivation, tips, and tutorials.
The list has been kept short in order to help emphasize the “best of the best” posts.
Design Inspiration
50 More Blogger Designs to Inspire You – Also a second in a series, Amanda of Blogger Buster highlights quite a collection of themes designed on Blogger, showing the truly limitless power of any blog system given the designer’s creativity level.
25 Beautifully Dark Websites – Part II – In a second collection (Part I), Vandelay Website Design showcases twenty-five more designs that will motivate you to create themes and websites based on the dark color scheme.
Tips, Tutorials, and News
How to Separate Comments and Trackbacks – A simplified look at how to separate WordPress comments and trackbacks, useful for bloggers who want to do so. On their blog, the comments and trackbacks have been organized and arranged in an extremely practical way.
WordPress and Drupal Compared – A breakdown of the two Content Management Systems (CMS) primarily in terms of flexibility, ease of use, and availability of resources.
How to Create Simple, Dynamic, User Controlled Layouts – Featuring this site as an example of how to create a WordPress theme switcher area for visitors to view multiple layouts of your blog/website.
WordPress Theme Frameworks – Ian discusses the future of WordPress theme design using a set of frameworks. Using a set of frameworks, developers will be able to create child themes, useful for individual pages.
[News] WP Candy Redesigned – The new, redesigned WP Candy site ditches the extreme minimalist design that it previously had, but brings a fresh look at what is possible with WordPress in the form of a single theme installation and different colors for each area of the site.
