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Check out the Site Builder demo to try building your own web design.

 

 Cutest Blog Ever - Seriously, the best bunch of free backgrounds I've seen yet!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Pink Pixel Graphics has some free buttons - ALSO, Heartland has some of the same buttons as well as some additional buttons and banners.

 

 

Inspiration Gallery has loads of free backgrounds and even a way to try them out!

 

 

Scrumptious Pre-Made Blog Templates $8.00!!

 

Colours for You - Tutorials & free new backgrounds for your blog

 

 

 

 

Her tutorial section is wonderful!

 

Tons of cool fonts!

 

If you want to download a font to Photoshop, there are instructions HERE

 

 

Great stuff to add to your blog

Guestbooks

Message Forums

Hit Counters & Stats

Blogs & Journals

Photo Albums

Chat Rooms

Online Calendars

Email Forms

Speaking Characters

Mailing Lists

Web Poll Widgets

Free Links

Vote Casters

Classifieds

Traffic Exchange

Web Cartoons

Site Search Widgets

E-Cards

GuestMaps

Password Protect

FAQ Services

Headline News

Website Redirects

This Day in History

Hosting Affiliate Program

Web Templates

 

Add a clock to your blog

 

 

Tons and tons of great html helps for adding buttons, widgets, podcasts, even etiquette

 

 

 

I made the blog banner above in about 3 minutes flat.  Go to BigHugeLabs and create your own!

 

Digital Scrapbooking Freebies - changes often.

 

 

 

 

 

Planet of Free Blog Templates 

 

 

 

 

Provided by photoshopsupport.com:

FREE BLOG TEMPLATES
BlogSkins offers designs from the best of the blogging community.
Blogger Templates offers original skins to personalize your blog.
Blog Fashions offers an assortment of attractive blog templates.
Elated Page Kits has some really nice blog templates with PSD files.
Thur's Templates is a templates showroom, with a good selection here.
Layout Gala offers over 40 free CSS templates..

FREE BLOG BACKGROUNDS, TILES & PATTERNS
CitrusMoon offers a wide assortment of pretty tiles and backgrounds.
SquidFingers has a big selection of beautiful patterns.
For more free patterns and textures visit our Free Backgrounds page.

 

BLOG SOFTWARE - COMPARISON CHART
Online Journalism Review - compares the standard features of popular blogging tools.

BLOG SOFTWARE - REVIEWS
Forbes - Best Of The Wed - Blog Tools - short reviews of sites that offer the best tools for setting up and managing a blog.

BLOGGING JARGON & TERMS
USC Annenberg - offers a short glossary of blog technology (scroll down the page).
List of blogging terms
Blogging terms from Wikipedia - this is a list of blogging terms. Blogging, like any hobby, has developed something of a specialised vocabulary. The list is an attempt to explain a few of the more common phrases and words.

INSPIRING BLOG DESIGNS
Karen Cheng - simple and friendly, with a sketch book look.
Veerle - nice layout and color scheme, has a subtle background pattern.
Zeldman - one of the most popular design blogs ever.
Jason Santa Maria - done up to look like a paperback book.
CreativeBits - this community blog shows how a dark look can also work well.

BLOGGER WORKFLOW TIPS
ToDone! — This blog by Keith Robinson offers tips on personal productivity and getting things done, and has some great tips on how to become a more productive blogger, including how to set-up a production workflow.

INCREASE TRAFFIC TO YOUR BLOG
HOW TO: Boost Your Blog Traffic — Paul Stamatiou has posted a great article that lists ways that will help you drive more traffic to your blog.

HOW TO MAKE MONEY BLOGGING
JenSense — A collection of news and info about Google AdSense, as well as other contextual advertising options.

FREE FONTS FOR BLOGS
DaFont.com — You'll find a huge collection of great free fonts here.
Wanted Fonts — Lots of free fonts. On left side navigation you'll see categories.
HighFonts.com — Another nice assortment of fonts you can download for free.
For a full list of websites that offer free fonts visit our Free Fonts page.

FREE PHOTOS FOR BLOGS
Stock.XCHNG — A great source of quality photos that are free of charge.
Pixel Perfect — Offers a growing collection of free stock photos and illustrations.
StockVault.net — This stock photo resource offers free images.
For a full list of websites that offer free photos visit our Free Stock Photos page.

FREE COLOR SCHEMES FOR BLOGS
WellStyled.com offers a very easy to use color scheme generator.
Colormatch Redux is a complete color scheme generator which includes the ability to export your chosen palette to a Photoshop ACT file or an Illustrator AI file.
ColorMatch 5k is a utility that will help you select a matching 6-color palette for your blog. Define a single color that you like. Matching colors will be calculated.
ColorBlender is a free online tool for color matching and palette design.

 

Photoshop Web Template — Web Site Design Tutorial
Learn how to make a Photoshop web template with this web site design tutorial. Includes finished web page with code and links to free resources.

 

 

Design your own blog template from scratch

 

 

Hmmmm... this will be interesting if it gets going.