Showcase: Simplicity in WordPress Blog Design

18th May 2010 | Posted by Yahya | 14 Comments

Showcase theme of this month are simple and minimalist. In web design, Simplicity or minimalist not really mean ugly, bad or poor of creativity. Its can mean clean, neat, light, elegan and professionalism.

Sometimes making a simple and clean design is harder than the complex one. Its hard because there not many image or big background image or to much gradient, just use less element, like basic element (circle, square and triangular), one or two type typography, line, two or three color, and some little graphic for logo or somethings like that.
Some big site use simple design because they want their site more light, here some example:

http://www.smashingmagazine.com

http://alistapart.com

http://webdesignledger.com/

Some people had notion that simplicity show professionalism and neatness, thats why many people use simple and minimalist design in their site. Here some sample wordpress blog use simple design in their site:

http://www.70folk.com

http://www.diagonalbaltimore.com

http://blog.soulwire.co.uk/

http://www.onedaywithoutgoogle.org/blog/

http://www.logodesignlove.com/

http://Adaptik.com/

http://fontfeed.com/

http://lovelypackage.com/

http://css4design.com

http://www.creative-candy.co.uk

http://daustralala.com

http://dilatemedia.co.uk

http://www.divisionparis.com

http://internetzillionaire.com

http://www.jazzforme.de

http://marcsmiddy.com

http://robert-chambers.com

http://www.rojaynegra.com

http://www.seadelik.cl

http://www.shortoftheweek.com

http://simonong.net

http://thematic4you.com

http://www.wearepixel8.com

http://www.wkuchni.pure.pl

http://www.worldup.org

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We (DynamicWP) offering some wordpress templates with simple and minimalist design that you can use for free, hope you like it

Light Folio Theme

Simple Magazine Red Theme

Simple White Theme

Neat Theme

ALogo Theme

So.. that’s all. What do you think about it? do i miss something? If you have any sugestion or any thinks else, please feel free to say it!

12 Comments to “Showcase: Simplicity in WordPress Blog Design”

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1. reza says:

   May 18, 2010 at 01:04

   i think you forget this one

   http://www.voceantica.com/

   hehe

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   • yahya says:

     May 18, 2010 at 05:46

     yeah thats a good design, thanks for sugestion maybe next time i will add it!

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2. @scottcorgan says:

   May 18, 2010 at 10:18

   Ah, I can breathe again. There’s no more coffee stains or paper clips to get in the way of TYPOGRAPHY and WHITESPACE!

   Ha, thanks for the showcase, love these!

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   • yahya says:

     May 19, 2010 at 02:46

     yeah, that’s right, only typo and clean background ^_^)>

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3. Robert Chambers says:

   June 4, 2010 at 16:51

   Nice showcase and thanks for including my site.

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   • yahya says:

     June 4, 2010 at 20:46

     same here, glad you like it ^_^)v

     Reply
4. Yas says:

   June 9, 2010 at 09:38

   Nice Post and thanks for including my website.

   Yas

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   • Yahya says:

     June 9, 2010 at 21:47

     you’re welcome ^_^)>

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5. Simon Ong says:

   August 31, 2010 at 22:44

   Whoah! Never knew my site was included here! Thank you for the recognition!

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6. Kaden Hamilton says:

   February 8, 2011 at 11:04

   Very cool posts man!

   -Kaden

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7. Rossi Melo says:

   March 23, 2011 at 03:20

   Nice showcase and thanks for sharing!

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8. Inspire says:

   November 1, 2011 at 22:01

   Hi,

   fantastic work. Clean and simpel, but high quality. Typographie is also amazing.

   Now i want a muffin.^^

   Reply

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