WordPress is everywhere and the majority seem to love it as their blog platform of choice – but if choosing a great theme is key, what constitues a good one in the eyes of web designers?

Get creative and break some rules to produce richer WordPress mockups

Charlie White and John Biggs share insider secrets to successful blogs in Bloggers Boot Camp from Focal Press

Uncover an essential selection of blog techniques in Part 3 of Web Designer’s look at the major web publishing platforms.

Uncover an essential selection of blog techniques in Part 2 of Web Designer’s look at the major web publishing platforms.

Blogs allow viewers to gain a closer, more intimate look at its content. It also tends to be a perfect outlet for creative expression and conveying some vital personality

The latest issue of Web Designer boasts fifty of the best tips and techniques for leading blogging platforms, WordPress, Joomla, Drupal and Squarespace

Don’t have the time to struggle through clumsy, self-hosted CMS installations

SQUARESPACE

There are plenty of people producing professionally styled WordPress templates you can use to get started

Designing great high-impact blog footers is often neglected by web authors, so we’ve put together a quick list of some of the nicest we’ve seen of late

TELL US ABOUT YOUR BEAUTIFUL BLOGS!As part of a special project we can’t reveal just yet, we want to hear from any authors or designers out there who have a beautiful blog they want to share with the world.Needless to say, we want to publicise the best-looking blogs on the planet, whether WordPress-powered or not, and in order to do so we want your URL recommendations now.Send us the name, author and URL to:webdesigner(at)imagine(hyphen)publishing(dot)co(dot)uk