It has almost been a year while since we last published a round-up of our favorite personal blog designs, making this post well overdue. And what a difference a year makes! Different design techniques, new and refreshing ideas and with the further support for CSS3 properties, designers have have been able to push their personal blog designs to even higher levels. Having said that and putting all of the marvelous blog designs we have in this article aside and based [...]

Please note, this competition has expired. You can view the results here: WordPress 3 Site Blueprints Book Competition Winner Information » It has been a while since we last ran a good web design book giveaway, and if you are a WordPress developer or you are currently learning WP, you will certainly love this competition. What we have on offer is the chance for two of our readers to win one of two PDF ebooks, entitled WordPress 3 Site Blueprints [...]

Don't mistake Posterous as another micro-blogging service, it is much, much bigger than that. There are no limits to what you can do with it and there are seemingly no limits to what you can post to it – photos (auto resizing), audio files and links, documents and video (auto conversion)… You could use it as a simple blog, or as a day-to-day "lifestreaming" service that can automatically post to other popular social media services such as Flickr, Twitter and [...]

A few months ago we published a popular article called 12 Useful and Free Downloadable Web Design Books, and the positive response we received from our readers was phenomenal. But, just as there is with most things, there is always room for improvement. With the help of readers and authors we have discovered another 9 free web design books we felt were worthy enough to bring to your attention, you will find these book below. Just as with the previous [...]

When I sat down to write this post, my first intention was to write about minimal design and how popular they have become over the last few years. Of course, I couldn’t do that without listing some clever examples. But while I was on the hunt for what to include in that list I got a message from a friend. She was looking for some Tumbler themes. So with Tumbler on the brain, we now have 7 incredible minimalist Tumbler [...]

One of the most popular support emails that we receive from readers and bloggers is how do we display and were do we get the social bookmarking widgets that you can see within our posts. For most the answer will probably be obvious and simple (think of this page as your one-stop-shop for sharing widgets instead), but of course, if you are just starting out it can be understandably tricky finding and implementing the code. What we have done is [...]

The growth and popularity of Wordpress continues to spiral to a seemingly endless end. It continually proves itself time time and again that it has very few limitations, and is rapidly pushing itself to being, if not the best, but certainly the most versatile CMS available. Out of the box it is certainly not perfect, but in the hands of the huge WP community, it might just be.

Blogger may not be the first blogging platform you would choose, it does have a reputation of being lacklustre, featureless and the bog standard skins have the look and feel of a site that was designed five years ago. That reputation is maybe a little bit exaggerated, but really, when was the last time you had a look at Blogger?

Joomla, the free open source CMS, is still number one when it comes to building a big, robust and professional websites (WP must be catching up quickly with its great progress). It has a pretty solid reputation as a CMS. The only downside, the community never really had a great resource of free templates, until now.

I love Drupal, It is a very powerful CMS that is easy to use and configure. Very little programming knowledge is needed, but will still accomplish so much. If there is anyone that hasn’t used Drupal before, I would definetly recommend it, it is a major step up from WordPress. Below are ten resources to free Drupal Themes.

The obvious choice for Number 1 is WordPress, it is the most versatile and flexible platform that I have come across. But, that is my opinion, WordPress seems to fit my needs 9 times out of ten. Our needs and that of our clients are different, don’t get me wrong I am not saying that Serendipity, Text Pattern or any of others are not very good, just simply my preference. Thats the key word here preference.