Blog designers can make your blog design pop!  For many people that want to start a blog and are just getting comfortable with writing, the blog design is probably not your top concern.

This is fine.  There’s no reasone to worry about the design if you are creating a completely person blog and don’t have any strategic blog plan.  Find a suitable blog theme and perform the general blog template install.

For everyone else, hire a freelance blog designer.  We talked about this is our recent how to article New Blog Templates. The cost to have a graphic designer create a blog design for you and implement this into a template or theme of your cms choice will typically be under $2000.  Again, if this is not a business or commercially branded blog then you can just use a generic blog template.  If you’ve got important content or a corporate blog purpose then it’s time to view the blog design just like a major branding element of your company.  For a full blog start-up program, (especially if you plan to outsource all design, templating, seo, content structure setup, and blog cms configuration,) plan to budget $5000 to $10,000+ USD.

After reviewing thousands of blogs, the one thing that set the business blogs apart from the diary blogs was the design.  This is not to say that a personal blog can’t also benefit from some customizations.  This just means that you’re probably looking at a do-it-yourself or a simple $50 freelance design project if it’s just tweaking an existing blog into what you want.