However, you can do a lot of things with your blog footer. For example, recent comments, Flickr photo stream, author bio/list of blog’s authors, blogroll, Twitter updates, contact form and so on. Besides these, you can have your avatar or simply any creative illustration at the blog footer too.

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These days blogs come a dime a dozen, so making a highly creative design that captivates the viewer and gets their attention is a key component in having a successful blog. Your content might be killer, and your personality might click well with millions of people, but without holding the attention of an audience who gets bored after 2-3 seconds, your blog just won’t have the same instant impact you deserve. These thirty blogs get it – and they did their job well.

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Stefan Kovac is an interactive art director & designer from Novi Sad, Serbia. While pursuing his passion, he has combined experience in motion graphics and 3D with excellent knowledge of Flash/ActionScript. For the last 7 years he has created a range of memorable interactive projects and proudly served clients like Starz, Alienware, Air Canada, Club Med.

[Source: ProgressiveRed]

Forgot to mention about it last week. My blog is now 1 year old!! I really appreciate for all the supports and comments. Hope I can keep this blog going for many more years.

This list was compiled slowly. I’ve been bookmarking my favorite blog posts for months, and in doing so, have visited the same useful design blogs over and over. Those blogs that showed up again and again in my bookmarking system were the ones that made this talented list. These are the sites that I have found offer the highest quality content to their readers.

[Source: CreativeOpera]

High quality free WordPress Themes have become harder and harder to find in the past year, with the influx of premium themes, more and more designers and developers are selling themes (and rightly so, they do amazing work). But, that aside, the quality is certainly there, and we are sure you will be impressed with this WordPress theme compilation for 2009.

[Source: SmashingMagazine]

Beautiful blog/portfolio site by Rob Morris, an Australian designer. Luv his use of color, modern techniques, graphic elements and typography style.