Unique Blog Designs

Posted on August 22, 2007 by Nate Whitehill

Unique Blog Designs
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  • http://www.viperchill.com/blog/ Glen Allsopp

    Ooh the simplicity. I thought you would have hyped-up the fact you did John’s theme ;)

    • http://samanathon.com/ Saman Sadeghi

      That really is awesome! I love the design of the Unique Blog Designs site, it’s slick and stylized – very visually appealing!

      John’s new site looks very clean too!

      • http://www.cashforcomments.com CASH for COMMENTS

        I agree. I’m sure you’re going to get lots of signups for new designs. It might new wave of JC followers to get a fresh look by changing their misty themes.

        me included. haha

  • http://www.davidairey.com/ David Airey :: Graphic Designer

    Again Nate, great job. Here’s to all the success you deserve.

  • http://www.ronaldocamacho.com Ronaldo Camacho

    Great job on John Chow.

    I can see that the first post both here and on John’s site is barely above the fold, depending on the resolution it takes a scroll down. Do you think this above the fold thing is overrated, regarding the first post?

  • http://www.johncow.com John Cow

    That’s hot! Need to get me one now :D

  • http://www.fair-review.co.uk Rhys

    Looks fabulous!

  • http://www.hmtk.com HMTKSteve

    I honestly do not like the way your site (and now John’s) have so much stuffed right on top. I can’t even see the first post when I come to the site!!!

    Most web browsing folks are still using 1024×768 max. With that screen setting all I see is a header and a bunch of ads. That makes me go elsewhere.

    • http://gotchance.com Shrihari Sankaran

      Exactly. Not a big fan of this top part.
      But the other are excellent. Especially, they are great on John’s blog than over here, :D

    • http://www.affiliatedefined.com/ David Wilkinson

      The ‘average’ size tracked across my sites is 1280×1024, followed by 1280×800, then closely behind, 1024×768. I myself am running a 22″ 1680×1050.

      These days if you haven’t got 19″ or more – it’s safe to EXPECT trouble…

  • Frank

    I think you have a very distinct design aesthetic, Nate. I think it’s very professional without being to stuffy. They are strong headers to be sure but I think that these days someone like John Chow has a lot of different items that he has to promote and your header gets the job done admirably.

    The only thing that I think about John’s site (and this is not not something to do with your design) is that he shows so many posts on the front page that I rarely scroll down to the absolute bottom of the site. And therefore I miss the footer completely. But it certainly is a nice footer.

    Having your design on such a high profile site is going to just keep giving and giving. Considering the advertisers are paying $500 a month I think you just made many thousands of dollars on promotion for your business and it will just keep bringing in traffic day after day.

    Unique Blog Designs is going to flourish, get ready for it.

    • http://digitalorder.org KingJacob

      I agree your designs are very nicely done, they all fit tons of stuff into a blog without making it look cluttered. Also good job on doing Johns theme cause without it I may have never found your blog.

  • http://www.blogtrepreneur.com Adnan

    Awesome buddy, start getting ready for a lot of orders ;)

  • mike

    You landed John Chow! That’s one way to get your name out there quickly.

    Very nice work.

  • http://www.cheddarblog.com Swiss_Mouse

    Nice Job. A bit busy up top, but those were most likely the specs given to you. You should be rolling in cheddar soon with work like this!

  • http://www.everydayweekender.com Everyday Weekender

    Nice job Nate!

  • http://whassupjack.com mike

    john chow looks great. i love it

  • http://debohobo.com Debo Hobo

    Great Job over at Chow’s

  • http://ashwinr.com/ Ashwin

    Great job man.

    How much do you charge for a exclusive custom theme (not the $79 listed there)?

    • http://www.slavingia.com Sahil

      According to the site he charges $599 without hosting and consultation, and $699 with both.

      - Sahil.

  • http://www.financialimbalance.com Thomas

    The design is nice, but I find the top fold very busy. I would have preferred a little more use of whitespace. But besides that nice work.

  • http://www.madwhips.com Anthony

    Nate congratulation!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    Dude, the new Johnchow.com site looks super sweet!

    Vary Naaaice, Haie Faaaaaaive!

    ac

    p.s. I’m excited to see what you are going to do with CarZi.com next :)

    • http://www.affiliatedefined.com/ David Wilkinson

      Haha – TechZi, too? ;) LOL!

  • http://www.bushmackel.com/ Bush Mackel

    This is a big pull. CONGRATS!

  • http://www.designog.com Design for MySpace

    Without doubt excellent designs nate

  • Kyle

    I can’t say I’m very impressed with JohnChow.com. It’s a MAJOR clusterf–k up top and none of the ads go together at all. Perhaps rotating them or something.

  • Kyle

    But congrads on the new site and best of luck. I’m sure you’ll pull it off Nate, you always do.

  • http://travel-agent-online.blogspot.com Globaltravel

    Awesome site redesign over at johnchow’s site…!!!

  • http://thinklikethem.com Joshua

    They’ll be coming for you now Nate…

  • http://www.randomjabber.com Deron

    Great job Nate! Very clean and very appealing. Bout time John got a custom design! Now you’ll have to watch out for everyone trying to use that design so they can be like John Chow.

  • http://www.year26.org jake

    Congrats on getting John’s business, that should provide a pretty big boost to everyone involved..That being said I’m not a fan of all the ad placement…Looks a bit cluttered to me.

  • http://smartwealthyrich.com/ Jon – SmartWealthyRich

    Hey Nate, great job on John’s design! ;)
    And congrats on launching UBD

  • http://www.matthuggins.com Matt Huggins

    Hmm, I bet this doesn’t thrill the buyer of the 468×80 “Custom Blog Designs” banner on this site since their banner is immediately followed by your post about “Unique Blog Designs”. :)

  • cbb

    Matt, since the “buyer” of “Custom Blog Designs” and the developer of “Unique Blog Designs” are the same person (Nate) it’s probably no contest. (Either that or it’s win-win!)

    Nate, I just enlarged the John Chow “recent example” under Design Services on your Unique Blog Designs website, and the so-called “posts” are simply HILARIOUS! I hope everyone catches that – it will be their chuckle for the day!

    • http://www.matthuggins.com Matt Huggins

      Oops, I didn’t realize that, thanks for pointing it out to me cbb. :)

  • http://www.daxdesai.com High Return Investing with Dax

    Great job! I found it a bit busy up top. I know it only went down like 120pixels, but visually it seems busy. Maybe I’m just too used to seeing the old version. Definitely a more profitable design. In that regard kudos! Hope you can handle the new business you’ll no doubt get.

  • http://www.shaunlow.com shaun

    awsome job it looks amazing!

  • http://www.findcollegecards.com Tom

    That design looks awesome!!

  • http:///www.ryankusaba.com Dice

    You’ll be getting lots of orders now. Get ready! Nice job on the design!

  • http://www.zoomstart.com Shane

    Great way to promote your biz Nate. That’s a pretty wild design, but it fits JC perfectly and that’s what’s important.

  • http://kylemstephens.com Kyle M Stephens

    Nate- the site looks great. You’ve really found a good way to increase John’s ability to monetize the site while still keeping it functional. I hope you got a nice commission from the extra money he’s making from the new buttons.

  • http://www.wtricks.com/webmaster-blog dojo

    In my opinion, the most important aspect when starting a site is to make sure it looks unique and also has a beautiful design. I believe in branding and uniqueness and it;s nice seeing more people have the same dream. excellent project. I’ll check back frequently to see what’s new. I don’t need design services since I make my designs, but it’s always good to see a well designed theme.

  • http://million-dollar-blog.com/blog/ MDB

    Definately made John Chow look like a pro now.
    Agree the top is real busy though… you can’t see anything without scrolling down.

  • http://waigs.de Waigs

    Looks really nice, shows you put alot of work on it

  • http://gamble.org.ua Ukrainian

    Cool site with great designs! Thanks for link

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  • http://www.jjshoponline.net/ Online Products Shopping

    Excellent design, but nate will you please let me know, i still have doubt, cz people are using themes from wordpress and getting more than pr 3 for their blogs as well as rankings, too. any special importance, i m curious to hear from you.

  • http://www.factoryfast.com.au online shopping

    I agree with the above poster about John’s site – you don’t really need to scroll down to the bottom to find something you want to read. I guess he’s opted for the ‘magazine feel’ for his site; something I see becoming increasingly popular with blog sites and for good reason. I’m definitely thinking of changing my design very soon to comply with the idea of a magazine styled site. It’s just the way to go.

  • http://www.portraitkingdom.com/oil-paintings.html original oil paintings

    Unique indeed! How I wish this will be brought to the attention of those who are into web design. These blog designs are in fact far better than the other web sites I’ve seen before.