101 Awesome Free Blogger Templates.
Sunday, November 1, 2009
Blogger template design has evolved so much since I posted the showcase of 101 Excellent Blogger Templates and the follow-up of 125 more...
This past year, we have seen some incredible changes to the sheer quality and quantity of free templates available for the Blogger platform! From incredible magazine style designs with automatic post summaries to beautiful photo showcases, lifestream templates and everything between - there are high quality designs to suit every requirement, or inspire you in the creation of your own unique designs.
For your browsing and inspirational delight, here is my showcase of awesome Blogger templates for summer 2009. These have been selected because of their outstanding quality, attention to detail, beautiful layout and feature-rich design.
I've categorized these themes under nine headings to help you find the perfect template for your site: Simply Awesome, Magazine and Gallery Styles, Bright and Colourful, Minimal and Simple, Dark Designs, Feminine and Flirty, Travel Themes and Miscellaneous Templates.
Each template includes a high-resolution screenshot, a link to a live demonstration blog and links to the Blogger designer/coder's download page where you will find instructions, licensing and further details for the design.
Due to the sheer number of images, this page may take a while to load. Please be patient - I promise the wait will be worth it!
Simply Awesome!
Papelys y Color
Blog Amuki is one of the most astounding Blogger based designs I have ever seen! I was awestruck to discover this hugely talented designer has released some Blogger templates for free!
This is the first template by Amuki, which features a very interesting effect to hide the sidebar. Be sure to check out the demo to see this effect in action!
Paper Wall
Originally designed for Wordpress by Indezigner, this theme has been converted for Blogger three times, by BloggerThemes, Blogger FAQs and Deluxe Templates. Each conversion is slightly different but both look absolutely superb and deserve these links to their download pages ;)
View Demo | Download from BloggerThemes | Download from Blogger FAQs | Download from Deluxe Templates
Showcase
This is a perfect template for anyone wishing to showcase images/templates and the like using Blogger.
Created by the talented Dante araujo, this showcase-style design works almost right out of the box and even includes javascript-based summaries so that text is hidden on non-item pages.
Eden's Garden
This beautiful template was designed by RayCreations. Featuring a stunning background, stylized headings and date headings, this is bound to impress visitors to your blog.
Tree House
Designed for Wordpress by Skinpress, this adorable theme has been converted for Blogger by FalconHive.
This theme is surprisingly easy to set up: full instructions are provided on the download page, while the navigation and 125px ads can all be configured using widgets in the layout.
Craftwork
This theme was originally created by EzWpThemes and converted for Blogger by Blogger FAQs. A feminine and quirky design, the appearance has been considered in all areas and makes for a stunning theme.
Gamma Ray
This stunning dark theme includes an animated featured posts section and very stylish typography. An original design by Insight Your Blogger.
ImpreZZ
This fabulous template offers a three column layout with integrated Twitter updates and beautifully styled headings in the central column. Converted by Falcon Hive from the original design by Gopal Raju.
Art Template
Here's another memorable EzWpThemes conversion, this time by Gosu of FoolBlogger.com. Designed to appear like a scrapbook, this highly stylized theme is colourful yet very functional.
Magazeen
Designed by WeFunction for Smashing Magazine, this Blogger template conversion from Zona Cerebral is simply awesome! Don't be deceived by the apparent simplicity of the layout: once you see this template in action you'll understand why I like it so much.
Beneath the header section is an area of thumbnails which link to recent posts. When you hover over a thumbnail, the title of the post it links to will fade in (and out) above the thumbnails. The footer too is well-styled, and while this template will require personalization for your particular blog, I promise the results will be well worth the effort!
Wooden Fence
Here's another stunning conversion from Alvaris Falcon, converted from the Wordpress theme by TemplateLite.
This three column theme is beautifully designed with image-heavy backgrounds in the style of a sunny garden.
Magazine and Gallery Styles
Magazine-style themes are ideal for niche blogs which are regularly updated, and where the showcase of a particular category assists readers in navigation.
Gallery-style templates are perfect for photo-bloggers, artists and designers to showcase their works as in portfolio fashion.
All of the following templates make excellent use of functions and CSS styles to ensure magazine and gallery style themes showcase the potential of Blogger as a powerful publishing tool.
Dreamy
Here is a simple, elegant and fresh template by Dante araujo which includes automatic post summaries and thumbnails on the home page.
Clean Milano
Here is an elegant design with an unusual colour scheme, particularly effective for a business/corporate blog. Converted from the WP theme by Jinsona, Falcon Hive's Blogger template is excellent and well worth a look.
Falkner Press
This design is simply fabulous! Converted by BloggerTricks from the original design by CamelGraph.com, this features automatic summaries, recent posts with thumbnails, a featured posts section and integrated YouTube embed.
The Latest
This is a clean, magazine style theme with read-more feature for posts on the home page and split header section (perfect for adding wide adsense banners above the fold).
Converted from WpThemeDesigner's template by Anshul.
Photoplus +
This template by Dante araujo is a fantastic template for photo bloggers, designers and artists! Only the images of each post are visible: these thumbnails expand into a larger version using the JQuery FullSize feature.
Be sure to check out the demo for this template: I am very impressed by this template as it demonstrates the full potential of Blogger as a web-publishing tool.
Infinity
When I saw the Wordpress version of this theme on Smashing Magazine, I wondered when it would be possible to see a conversion of this for Blogger. And finally it is here!
Originally designed by Vikiworks.com, this has been converted for Blogger by Blogger FAQs and features thumbnails for posts on non-item pages, integrated Flickr photostream and stunning graphics in the background.
Gumball Special
A clean, magazine style theme, Gumball Special was originally designed by Evan Eckard and has been converted for Blogger by Blogger FAQs.
Magasin
A stylish magazine layout from Falcon Hive which has been converted from the original theme by PaddITsolutions.
Features a featured posts slideshow, automatic post summaries and excellent use of space in the sidebar.
Zitizen
A fully functional template with featured posts slideshow and recent posts thumbnails in the header. This is converted from a template by Jinsona by Cahaya Biru.
Showcase Light
A pale version of Dante araujo's Showcase theme, which includes automatic thumbnails and a fresh take on the colour scheme.
Schemer Mag
This is a stunning, unbtrusive magazine style design which makes use of all available space in a truly elegant manner. Converted from the WP theme by Wpthemedesigner.com by Blogger Tricks.
Zinmag Futura
This is a truly stylish, magazine style theme converted from Jinsona's WP Theme by Cahaya Biru. With bold contrasting colours, a sliding featured posts section and integrated Twitter updates, this is a stylish and highly functional template.
Cellar Heat Light Gallery
This is a pale, gallery-style version of the popular Cellar Heat theme by Evan Eckard, which has been converted for Blogger by MagzNetwork.
Mahusay
Here is a stunning, elegant template which has been converted from PaddItSolutions' WP theme by FreeBloggerTemplate. It features a slideshow "featured posts" section in the header and stylish presentation throughout.
GameZine
This is a tremendous theme which really needs to be seen in action in order to be fully appreciated! Gamezine is converted from the WP theme by Jinsona Design by Cahaya Biru. It is designed to be a showcase style template for gaming Bloggers, and includes a wonderful magazine-style on the main page.
Bright and Colourful Templates
Spring
A stunning design from RayCreations with tabbed navigation and high-res background image.
Magasin Diez
Night Whimsey
This three column layout was converted from the original theme by Scribblescratch by DeluxeTemplates.
Retrograde
Harking back to designs of the past, this bold and colourful template will brighten any blog! Converted from the original CSS template from Dawghouse Design Studio by Blogger FAQs.
Paradise Valley
Fresh, colourful and beautifully designed, this theme by RayCreations is simple yet truly awesome.
Nature Blog
Red Light
This bright and eye-catching template was converted from Template Lite's WP theme by Blogger Styles. It offers a three column layout with stunning large background image and many stylistic features throughout.
Green Scrapbook
Converted from the WP theme by SimplyWP, this muted colour theme is simple yet effectively presented. Blogger template coded by Ipietoon.
Maroon King
This is a simple, red-toned theme was created for Blogger by Skinpress and offers a clean simplistic layout and an integrated feed link in the header.
Minimal and Simple Designs
Scrappy
This fast-loading three column blog features three narrow columns and lots of eye-pleasing white space. Ideal for micro-bloggers, this was designed for Blogger by Dante araujo.
Extreme Georgia
This simple typographic template was converted from Mentariwork's CSS template by Deluxe Templates.
Typoork
Antonio Lupetti of Woork has always had an exceptional eye for design. Typoork is his latest free Blogger template offering, featuring an exceptional clean layout and beautifully ordered typography.
Quick Chic
An elegant, vaguely feminine theme with minimalist layout. Based on the theme by Quick Online Tips and Bloggerized by ChicaBlogger.
Halo 01
This is a two column template of my own design which features a unique approach to presenting the meta-data for each post.
Showoff
A simple, yet highly effective design which includes integrated Twitter updates beneath the header and navigation links. Designed by Dante araujo.
Showoff Light
A pale white and red version of Dante araujo's Showoff template.
The Summer
A simple two column theme with only one backgroud image which instead focuses on CSS based colour and typography. Designed for Blogger by Deluxe Templates.
Smash My Typo
Originally designed for Smashing Magazine by Alexander Dahlberg, this elegant minimal template was converted for Blogger by Blogger FAQs.
Excess
This simple green-toned template is based on the CSS template by FreeCssTemplates and has been converted for Blogger by Blogger FAQs.
Think Simple
This elegant simple theme features three columns and integrated RSS subscription links. This was designed for Blogger by Deluxe Templates.
Dark Designs
Many designers choose to adopt a dark colour scheme for their blogs, though these templates may also be adapted for personal, business and technology-related niches:
Gotham Nights
This stunning dark theme was originally created for Wordpress by Evan Eckard, and has been converted for Blogger by Blogger FAQs.
Black Power
This theme includes Twitter updates in the header, well-designed comment counts, plus integrated search, feed and navigation links. Converted from the WP theme by Skinpress by Falcon Hive.
Dark Mistry
Another stunning original design by RayCreations. Features a two column layout with unique styling of the different widget types and breathtaking main background image.
Tagland
A dark and serious theme by Dante araujo with a keen focus on each element of style.
Rock My World
Originally designed by Pelangipetang, this awesome grunge-style theme has been converted for Blogger by Deluxe Templates.
Evidens
A stunning, simple dark theme which offers three columns in the layout and perfect attention to details. Originally created for WP by Design Disease and converted for Blogger by Blog and Web.
Blue Diamond
This is an image-heavy, beautifully toned design featuring Twitter and RSS links in the header and a stylish approach to the layout. Converted from Skinpress' WP theme by Falcon Hive.
BCute
Here is another conversion of a Skinpress theme by Deluxe Templates, this time a dark theme with a stylish and highly functional header section.
The Conservative American
An unusual niche-style template with a patriotic feel, this two column template is not short of features including: automatic date, Twitter integration and navigation links. Converted by Zona Cerebral from the Wordpress design by Jeremy Buff.
Zinmag Remedy
Converted by Falcon Hive from the Wordpress theme by Jinsona Design, this dark intriguing theme offers many great features, though requires a good deal of customization to install.
Template Black
An original dark design by Templates Novo Blogger.
Woody
A wood effect template with semi-transparent backgrounds, converted from Frozr's design by ChicaBlogger.
Feminine and Flirty Designs
WP Polaroid Pink
Adii's excellent WP theme was originally converted for Blogger by eBlogTemplates, and has been given a wholly feminine makeover by ChicaBlogger.
Meet the Chef
Gisele Jaquenod's designs are always cute, well designed and perfectly laid out. Here is her latest offering: Meet The Chef, a three column feminine design with unique header banner.
Flower Garden
This cheerful theme was designed by IpieToon and features a split sidebar, widgetized footer section and unique header banner (watch what happens when you move your cursor around...).
Nature Gift
This simple two column theme was originally designed by Top Tut and includes a beautiful header image. Converted for Blogger by BloggerThemes.
Tired Girl
Tired Girl offers a beautiful header design and quirky approach to navigation. Designed by Skincorner for Blogger users.
Baby Cute
A cute theme by Ipietoon, which is perfect for those blogging about a new addition to the family. The PSD file may also be downloaded for customization of the header banner.
Vector Flower
A beautiful Blogger template offered by Klodian of Deluxe Templates, this two column template was converted from the original design by EzWpThemes.
Girly Nature
This ethereal theme offers a beautiful colour scheme, and includes integrated search and RSS feed link. Converted from the WP theme by TemplateLite by Deluxe Templates.
Retro Book
A simple, retrospective design in sepia tones, this theme was converted from GetTemplate's original design by Chica Blogger.
Floral Day
Subtle and feminine, this template was converted from SimplyWP's theme by ChicaBlogger.
Glamorous
This original theme by Dante araujo offers a three column layout which can be easily customized by swapping out the background image. The PSD file is included for easy customization of the logo.
Green Mile
I love the balanced layout of this subtle theme, which is based on the design by EzWpThemes and converted for Blogger by Deluxe Templates.
Water Color
With a stunning background image, tabbed navigation and stylish sidebar section, this template is impressive while pleasing to read. Converted from TemplateLite's original design by Falcon Hive.
Unusual Layouts and Styles
This set of themes defy convention: some are single column themes (ideal for showcasing photos!) while others do not appear like blogs at all!
Mainstream
Based on the WooThemes template, this Blogger conversion includes tabbed navigation buttons, social media links and stylish sidebar headings.
This has been bloggerized by WP Blogger Themes and is well worth a look!
Launchpad
Are you launching a new blog soon? Launchpad is the solution to help potential readers subscribe for updates. You can write blog posts and simply upgrade your theme once the site is ready for launch.
This template was converted by ejner69 from ThemeShaper's original design.
RS Garden
Please do take a look at the demo for RS garden to appreciate it fully - my screenshots do not do justice to this unusual theme!
Featuring a single, wide column on the home page and a narrow, left sidebar on item pages, this clean layout is ideal for photobloggers.
Converted from Rambling Soul's theme by BlogAndWeb.
Photoblog
This simple one column theme is ideal for photobloggers and designers to showcase their works. Converted from ClipThePhotos' theme by Deluxe Templates.
Stripped
This is a very clean, single column theme which features the post-meta-data in a column to the right of the post body and a widgetized three column footer. Converted from Nathan Rice's theme by Quite Random.
Halfbaked
This theme offers a highly unusual, fluid layout in which the sidebar and posts are separated by a central vertical line.
Converted from Guy Fisher's WP theme by Template GoDown.
Dark Flower
This unusual two column theme is left-aligned: a rare layout style in recent template design. It appears as a grunge-style notebook with highly stylized widgets in the sidebar and integrated navigation links. Converted from the EzWpThemes template by Deluxe Templates.
Tiny Studio
A narrow, single column theme converted from Pelangi Petang's template by Zona Cerebral.
2Plus
Another left-aligned theme, this original design was created by Dante araujo. It offers a clean and simple layout with excellent use of contrasting colour and minified header logo.
Travel Themed Templates
76. Sailing
A bold, bright theme with integrated RSS link in the page curl. Converted from the EzWpThemes template by BloggerThemes.
Exotic Vacation
This is a beautiful, artistic template for travel bloggers. I particularly love the signpost for navigation around the blog! Converted from the WP theme by TemplateLite by Falcon Hive.
This notice-board style template was designed for Blogger by Lecca and features a split sidebar section.
Another template designed for Blogger by Lecca, this features a useful integrated Flickr photostream in the header which displays the latest Flickr uploads - perfect for updating with images on the go!
Here is an elegant, simple theme for travel bloggers which features integrated navigation links and a quirky "polaroids" section in the footer.
Converted from Free CSS Templates' design by Deluxe Templates.
Miscellaneous Templates
Community
An elegant and highly functional theme which offers integrated Twitter updates, email feed subscription and "SexyBookmarks" for easy syndication of posts.
Created by BieTempltes.
This stylish blue business theme was originally designed for Wordpress by EzWpThemes and has been converted for Blogger by FalconHive.
Simple, elegant and well laid out, this template will perform well for a multitude of blog niches. Converted from Blog Oh Blog's original template by Deluxe Templates.
MobiPress in another feature-rich template from Cahaya Biru, with a bold colour scheme and interesting layout. This was converted from the WP theme by Jinsona Design.
Originally a WP theme by Web Design Lessons, this lush green theme was converted for Blogger by Deluxe Templates.
A professional theme, this can be adapted to have 2-6 columns for all your widget needs. The header image also may be changed to suit the requirements of your blog.
Coded by OurBlogTemplates.
Based on Andrew Lindstrom's beautiful Wordpress theme, this Blogger conversion was coded by Blogger FAQs.
An awesome theme with big bold icons! Converted from Michael Soriano's template by Free Blogger Template.
This is a simple, grunge-style theme with a huge RSS icon in the header, integrated navigation links and beautiful typography choices. Converted from the Skinpress theme by Dante araujo.
This elegant white theme was created by Denshou and may be downloaded from BTemplates.com
This delicious template was coded by Lawny and is based on a PSD tutorial by PSDVibe.
Typebased is a beautifully elegant design, originally created by Woo Themes and bloggerized by BTemplates. This design features two columns in the layout, and post data is separated in a column to the left.
This stunning, glossy theme is based on the original template by Alexandru Cosmin and converted by WP Blogger Themes.
This design includes a breathtaking background image and stylized sidebar column. Another intriguing and original design by Ray Creations.
This grey and blue themed design puts the blog's description in central focus - a feature noted among portfolio blogs and websites - while the blog title is minimal in the upper left corner. An original Blogger design by Dante araujo.
Tonos Cálidos
Last - and most certainly not least! - this amazing theme by Blog Amuki is adapted from Falcon Hive's excellent Zinmag Tribune template.
Tonos Cálidos uses the magazine template, but injects this with subtle grunge overtones and a warm colour scheme. This is even more beautiful when viewed in the browser, and would make an excellent choice for a portfolio blog or personal site.
Final Thoughts
Each of these templates is the product of hard work, patience and perseverance. Wherever possible, I have linked to the download page on the Blogger template coder's site and - where applicable - to the original designers website (in cases where templates have been converted from another platform). For any of the templates you download, be sure to check the license and adhere to any conditions of use. After all, attribution for the work of these talented designers is the least reward we can offer for their efforts!
If you have found this a useful or inspirational resource feel free to share, bookmark or re-tweet! I truly appreciate your help to spread the word about the posts you enjoy most from this site :)
Please also take a look at my previous showcase posts to find even more beautiful Blogger templates which are completely free to use:
- The Top 20 Free Blogger Templates of 2008
- 125 More Excellent Blogger Templates
- 12 Free Photoblog Templates for Blogger
- 101 Excellent Blogger XML Templates
Image credit (top of post): Swisscan.
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