Trends for blog design

Cre8d Design specialise in blog design, themes, maintenance and plugins using Wordpress and community sites using Drupal since 2002.

Principal of the company Rachel Cunliffe has posted her predictions for the direction blogs will be heading in the next year.

"The big-text-shiny-rounded-gradient “Web 2.0 designs” will start to fade in 2009 and seem a little dated."

She predicts:

Here are her predictions for blog design trends in 2009.

Blog themes will powerfully integrate social media like Facebook and Myspace in a meaningful and useful way - as a permanent record all bundled together in one place

Twitter will be much more tightly integrated with blogs.

Simple, classy, black and white blogs with lots of white space are the new trend. Who needs color and clutter getting in the way when you have lots of large gorgeous photos on your blog to steal the limelight?

Blogs will look more handmade. Look for more blog designs with handwriting, collages, paint strokes, doodles, sketches, paperclips, stitches and material.

Bloggers will continue to redesign for wider screens to enable displaying larger photos and large widescreen videos.

Wordpress, Expression Engine, Drupal and other blogging/community tools will be used in ever increasing creative ways - to the extent that a casual visitor will be surprised to learn what the site is being run by and impressed at the ease of updating such seemingly complex sites.

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