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Instablogs dresses up ten sites

Instablogs, which launched this fall all pale and pasty, has rolled out ten redesigns ranging from decent to blow-away gorgeous. Each has enough flavor to rise above Creative Weblogs and, who knows, Weblogs Inc.

Wedlog! First redesign, and a gorgeous debut. Perfect little rounded corners and title font, even if the category and network lists look like “something borrowed.”
India Daily, richly bannered and more creatively columned.
Food Mall! A touch corporate, but a warm feeling created by complementary scheme of orange backgrounds.
The Muslim Woman! Classic right-angle and drop shadow design with an appropriate photo banner.
Born Rich, much like Wedlog, with an odd orange flavor. Kinda ick.
Gaming Blog — I’m not crazy about it, but the cartoon’s cute.
Tattoo Blog, freaky-cool. Dig that guy on the right. But a wide image is splitting the banner. It usually looks this sexy.
Ad Punch! The cutest, most slick-but-not-off-puttingly-corporate design, and my personal favorite.
Stolen Childhood, a rough-edged design, beautifully artistic, with superb use of dramatically filtered banner photos.
Green Diary, much like a crisper Stolen Childhood. My jury’s out on the outside wood pattern.

Of the clan, I’d 5-star Ad Punch, Tattoo Blog, and Stolen Childhood. Like, 9rules-worthy.

This entry was posted by Nick Douglas on Thursday, December 1st, 2005 at 8:52 am and is filed under 9rules, Jason Calacanis, Paul Scrivens. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.

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