Cute Blog Designs

As the world of blogging took off, people quickly began wanting to substitute the generic template of sites like Blogger with their own cute blog designs. In fact, an entire cottage industry of designers specializing in blog template design has arisen. This leads to a wide variety of methods to customize your own blog, and make it as cute as you'd like.

While it may seem like a silly thing to pay for - after all, they're just pictures on the screen and there's no real tangible exchange of goods - hiring a professional designer, such as Moxie Design Studios, can have a lot of benefits:

• The images are professionally created
• The blog design is unique and belongs to you, the purchaser
• There is no need to deal with back-end issues like Cascading Style Sheets and formatting
• Better tech support for your blog
• A one-on-one relationship with the person designing your blog

In short, all these benefits add up to you being able to have your blog serve as a reflection of your personality and taste, without having to deal with all the technical issues behind the blogging platform. While there are some similarities, there are also very significant differences in the ways that various blog services allow people to customize their blogs. By hiring a professional who is well-versed in navigating these various protocols, you have more time to do what you're supposed to be doing in a blog: writing about your passion.

Even if you're not going to be hiring a professional at this time, it's still a good idea to look through their galleries of past clients to see some of what is out there in the world of cute blog designs. Make sure you don't simply try and copy their work. Because it is so easy to steal images and code from the internet, blog designers are very diligent in keeping tabs on what belongs to them.

If it doesn't seem worth it to pay for a custom design, this doesn't mean you can't add a personal touch to your blog. Almost every blogging service, from Livejournal to MySpace, has "themes" that can be configured in one way or another so that you can have your own particular colors or images on the background. Be careful, however, not to make your blog unreadable by putting a busy or distracting image in the background, or making poor color choices – like dark blue letters on a black background, for example.

Wordpress, in particular, has a large community of open-source designers who contribute thousands of themes that can be added to a WordPress blog. Many of these are released under a Creative Commons license, which means you are free to re-configure them as you like, as long as you give credit to the original designer. Making these kinds of changes can be tricky, however, and you need at least some familiarity with coding such as CSS, XML and basic HTML. Working "under the hood" of WordPress can be complicated.

Thankfully, there are also communities on the internet devoted to showcasing those kinds of designs and helping people figure out how to create their own. Sites like Suck My Lolly contain galleries of cute blog designs, an extensive FAQ, and the ability to contact either the designers, or the blog hosts themselves, with questions and requests for feedback.

All of the above are simply the nuts and bolts – what's more important in a blog are the materials you put into your design. Make sure any drawings or photos either belong to you or have been released for your use. However, putting up funny or tender pictures of your own private world makes a blog as cute as you'd like. Whether it's kittens or kids, or simply your favorite flower, the degree of cuteness a blog is capable of is entirely up to you.

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