Are you using a CMS or not. I'm in the process of building a custom CMS for a client of mine and it has a blog in it. Designing it should be the easy part (well, not for me but my mind doesn't work that way)

I will tell you if you are just getting started a really good WordPress theme to use is 'Mistique' it will allow for you to create just about any look for a site that you want by editing the colors with a build in theme settings page, uploading your own logo and/or background image and various other tweaks like full width pages, right sidebar, left sidebar etc etc. It has a built in system for managing your adds and if you pair that up with the Advertising Manager you can control google and other ad networks by automating the placement of some ads with Advertising Manager and then using 'Mystique's' built in system to only place ads in posts or pages with a special code like: [ad code=1]. This allows you extreme control over all of your ads on your site.

Theses is a nice framework to use for creating your pages as is iblogpro4 if you are doing sales sites that have videos, images etc that you want to showcase or scroll on a carousel etc. Here is a site built with iblogpro fundraising-experts.com which shows how this works in a basic setup.

Anyway, best of luck with you site, let me know if you ever require professional help with any web design or development work!

~Rick

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If I could over simplify ocs comment above and say, just get DW and a theme you want to play with and go to town. If you have to get an image editor, fireworks is a little more affordable and gets the job done.

When you have the above elements, ftp into the site, pull down the files and get to reading. Most themes are pretty well commented out, and nicely structured so with time it will be a breeze.

I would also suggest checking out some tuts online, there are numerous - from wp in dw videos, to creating your wp site from scratch, etc.

And invest in perhaps a toupee, hair plugs or the like when you first dive in. Just in case you end up pulling your hair out while working in the beginning.

Best of success

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You can start with Blogger or Wordpress ,both are good and provide you with just everything that you need to create a blog.There are many themes and plugins available for wordpress,you can choose the best for yourself.

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To make a nice design blog, you'll need to know photoshop, xhtml, css, jquery and may be flash. If u didn't know about them, you'll only can generate a simple html design which is not eye catching like profesional does. The best way is outsource them for the design and code, after that, you'll need to take care of its content.

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for design website or blog,,,,, must be know about html,php, css, xhtml or asp......
for get easy will be use CMS like Joomla, Wordpress or drupal......

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I think Wordpress is the best way to go when designing a blog

• You do not need to know anything about web development to start blogging: you can create and manage your blog site using some of the free blog tools that are available.

If you need help designing a wordpress design , you can check for tutorials online.

Or if you mean you want a blog , there are many free blog providers there like Wordpress, nucleus , blogpspot , blogger and many many more.

For a list of beutiful templates for blogger just google blogger templates then pick whether you want a 1 coloumn, 2 coloumn or 3 coloumn layout.

blogcrowds.com is a good place to start off with for blogger or like I said do the google search for either ''wordpress templates list'' or ''blogger templates list''

Can anybody help

I have a big favour to ask off anyone, I have a potential template that I want to get my template to look like ;


osterblenderparts.net/

I found a similar template on blogger (not wordpress) and I found how to change the header colour in this one (which I intend to modify to look like osterblenderparts) from red to green and even to black but the problem is changing the sidebar on the right to all black as this is proving difficult.


Please help here is the template currently as it is


practiseblogging.blogspot.com/



I would appreciate it a lot if ANYONE could help me out.


Regards

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The fastest way is to buy ready-made Wordpress themes. They are cheap, beautiful and fast to implement. Why reinvent the wheels? Visit my website at my signature for examples.

Thanks themeforest but for my purposes I want to get that particular template and I use blogger cos I found wordpress soo technical that I was like geeeez.

But if you'd like to make a similar like the one im after just for me on blogger don't let me stop you LOLlllllll

To make a nice blog design, you need to know what Photoshop, XHTML, CSS, jQuery and you can flash. If u do not know, you can generate a simple html design is not as catchy craftsmanship. The best way is to entrust the design and code, after that, you will have to watch your content.

Oh really thanks Paul sadly im a blogger boy but its worth noting you've got the skills to create the template.

These is so nice blog design, you must know Photoshop, XHTML, CSS, jQuery, and may be lightning. If u did not know them, you can only generate simple html design, which is not nice not professional. The best way is to entrust the design and code, then you need to take care of its content.

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Thats eventually what I had to od but it turned out harder to edit a lot of the free templates available but was able to get something similar I use blogger cos I think wordpress is way too techy for moi

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Various softwares are available with which you can design your blog site. Wordpress has always worked well for me, It is a comprehensive and easy to use. The tools available on the free plan includes access to many models adaptation using sidebar widgets and you can also upload some of the themes on your own image to customize your banner.

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I am working on a project where I am trying to create a customized CMS that has a blog in it for one of my regular customers.

there are three way to design your site in blog ie. blogtype, blogspot and wordpress but out of these wordpress is the best way to design coz it is open source easily editable and there are are lost of wp themes available so you can prefer wordpress for your site

Thanks
Mayur

depends what you want to with it. Controlling your own like a wordpress installation will allow you to be very flexible, put ads and so on. But, if you mainly just want to post, the free platforms are there are surprisingly asthetic. The other day I was looking at typepad and was impressed by how good-looking it could be, with just a few clicks of a button.

are you using CMS or doing self designing with any language ?