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1. Pat 9th March 2010

   What makes any of these sites any good? Their content? Design? Typography?

   Stop putting together pointless lists and start diving deep into what makes a website great.

2. Dzinepress 9th March 2010

   good looking website designs.

3. Tom 9th March 2010

   Pat: Whilst it’s put across a little harshly, I actually agree with your point. The designs in this post are in my opinion good, and inspiring. Therefore I see the benefit of the post (I often scan designs of list posts myself for inspiration). However, I am trying to steer the site away from roundup posts, through the introduction of more unique tutorials, articles and the introduction of my ‘30 minute redesign’ saturdays, which goes into detail about how to improve design features. I may continue to post the occasional roundup (say once a week), as it does help inspire people. However, I’d like to think that PSDFAN does offer more ‘deep’ thought on design than a lot of places.

4. Pat 9th March 2010

   Here’s the thing: I know you put this post together very quickly, because my site is included, and the post that’s included was posted less than a couple of hours ago.

   I apologize if I came across as harsh. I haven’t read your other articles, and came to a rather critical conclusion perhaps too quickly. I made my judgement based solely on this article alone.

   I’ve been there before. I’ve done the “30 most inspiring sites” posts, hoping they would find their way to the front page of Digg or get linked to from some popular design sites. However, you’re not adding to the overall conversation that way. Instead, you’re just noise.

   I’ve had to learn this the hard way, but if you really want to contribute to the overall design community discussion in a substantial way, you’ve got to dig deep — really deep — and ask hard questions of yourself and others. That’s all I’m hoping to do here

5. Thomas Craig Consulting 9th March 2010

   Nice collection, a lot of new ones that I haven’t stumbled onto yet, will be checking them all out. Thanks for sharing.

6. Tom 9th March 2010

   Thomas: Thanks.

   Pat: I was actually compiled website addresses for a couple of days, deliberately leaving out ‘average’ designs. I just took some screenshots this afternoon. I hope that you do check out some of my other articles, particular those in the coming weeks. I definitely do care about the community, and whilst I can’t give away details yet, I’ll be hosting a week’s worth of posts dedicated to that cause. I’m not trying to make Digg or anything either (I’ve lost faith in Digg a long time ago).

   Anyway, I’m glad that you’re giving me a detailed opinion here, rather than just being critical. Like I say, I’m looking to dig deep whenever I can, but I’m sure you know the demands of running a blog, as I do…

7. Brandon Cox 9th March 2010

   Wow, quite a mouth-watering collection! I love that some of these really show skill in integrating not just a blog, but business elements too. Blogs + CMS, etc.

8. Rodney Keeling 9th March 2010

   I do agree with Pat; the post should be a bit more specific.

   Nevertheless, I see some great designs here, and it’s wonderful to be a part of this list! :]

9. Vim 10th March 2010

   Great post Tom, Real inspiring collection of great designs here.

10. SJL Web Design 10th March 2010

    Thanks for putting this great collection together Tom, I love Simon Collison’s new design.

11. felicita 10th March 2010

    Not good designs!

12. Melody 10th March 2010

    haha the expression on rodney’s face is funny..I always like it when designers add an extra personal touch to their photos on their sites..

13. swarn garg 10th March 2010

    great collection …………..
    30 rocking sites. nice content

14. Maged 10th March 2010

    i think Pat is right in ” give me SPECIFIC reason to bookmark those blogs ”
    they all look great and very creative but when included in a post i is preferred to specify
    however great job Tom and keep up man you’re great

15. Tom 10th March 2010

    Thanks everyone! I’ll definitely be more specific in future though.

    Melody: Good point! I love the personal touches too.

16. Pat 13th March 2010

    Hey Tom,

    Looks like your readers really want some depth! Don’t be discouraged: it takes just as much effort to write in depth about a few designs as it does to find 30 beautiful blogs. I strongly suggest taking a look at http://typesites.com/ for an idea of what I mean.

    All the best,
    Pat

17. Jashion 14th March 2010

    Very nice!

18. Wordpress Themes 16th March 2010

    Wow, some of the design are really cool. I would like to see more examples on how people use Wordpress as a CMS for regular website. Maybe is this an idea for a future article.

19. Kim 30th June 2010

    Thanks for collecting these site , these designs are very professional , some of template shows the good combination of the CMS + Blog

    I really like the collection

20. Metoffice 23rd July 2010

    most of them are good looking ones, there are some excellent examples of how to really enhance a web page. very clever and nice in a ’special’ way, thanks.