{photo by Bryan Veloso}

At last! No more redundant tiled photo background, blinking text, and auto-playing background music. With the exception of Friendster, Myspace blogs, the majority of sore-eye pinoy blogs of the past are but now a minority. Thanks to the ever-evolving Content Management System (CMS), Filipino blog designs everywhere never looked so good.

The gallery below showcase the most awesome Filipino Blog Designs for 2006. It exemplies why in the hands of a talented pinoy designer, any blog can appeal to the eye, be eminently usable, and can also creatively throw the rulebook out of the window.

BEST OVERALL

Avalonstar by Bryan Veloso

BEST DESIGNED ABOUT PAGE

I'm Bryan Veloso by Bryan Veloso

BEST FILIPINO CMS DESIGNER

Flickr co-founder Caterina Fake

BEST DESIGNED PHOTO BLOG

iPap by Markuu Seguerra

BEST DESIGNED WORDPRESS

Kutikots by Gail dela Cruz

BEST DESIGNED MOVABLE TYPE

How Now Brownpau by Paulo Ordoveza

BEST DESIGNED BLOGGER

Midori-X by Marni

BEST VISUAL AESTHETIC

Kauderwelsch by Beng Hafner

BEST NAVIGATION & STRUCTURE

Rebelpixel by Markuu Seguerra

BEST USABILITY

Koray by Derek Punsalan

BEST MINIMALIST

Avlack by Jolo Santos

BEST SINGLE COLUMN

Foliage Mod by Derek Punsalan

BEST BLOG DESIGN FOR SEO

5thirtyone October Special by Derek Punsalan

BEST DESIGNED COMMERCIAL BLOG

Hinge Inquirer Publications by Gail dela Cruz

BEST USE OF COLOR

The Last Leaf by Mae Paulino

BEST USE OF CONTRAST

Stellify by Sophie "ia" Lucero

BEST LOGO

Avalonstar by Bryan Veloso

BEST HEADER

Anino by Datu Arellano

BEST USE OF BACKGROUND GRAPHICS

Ironwulf by Ferdinand Decena

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See Also

• The World's Most Photorealistic Vector Art

LINKBACKS

Blogs/Journal/News who linked this article

• Cynthia Bauzon-Arre
• Rebelpixel
• Ironwulf
• Stellify
• Midori-X
• How Now Brownpau
• Kauderwelsch
• The Last Leaf
• The World is My Sandbox