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25 Examples of Three-Column Blog Designs

Published August 16th, 2009 in Galleries

When I re-designed this blog recently I decided to move from a three-column layout to just two columns because I felt that it made the layout cleaner and the content more readable. However, there are some well-designed blogs that make effective use of a three-column layout. In this post we’ll look at 25 examples. Some have the content in the middle with a sidebar on each side. Some have the content on the left with two columns of sidebars on the right. And others use some creative combinations.

Most of these blogs have been showcased at our gallery Blog Design Heroes.

Lord Likely

Lord Likely

Hell Yeah Dude

Hell Yeah Dude

Luova

Luova

Duirwaigh Studios

Duirwaigh Studios

Citizen Wausau

Citizen Wausau

Rin-Wendy

Rin-Wendy

Argee

Argee

Owltastic

Owltastic

The 9513

The 9513

Natalie Jost

Natalie Jost

Grain Edit

Grain Edit

Austin Town Hall

Austin Town Hall

DevKick

DevKick

Veerle’s Blog

Veerle's Blog

Pikaland

Pikaland

Designlab

Designlab

Powerful CMS

Powerful CMS

Helium Workx

Helium Workx

Gary Vaynerchuck

Gary Vaynerchuck

Quipsologies

Quipsologies

Kris Colvin

Kris Colvin

3918

3918

Some Random Dude

Some Random Dude

Kyle Haskins

Kyle Haskins

Schneeballschl18.com

Schneeballschl18.com

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41 Responses to “25 Examples of Three-Column Blog Designs”

Eric B. August 17th, 2009

Theses blog designs are very nice! My favourite is probably the Auston Town Hall design.

Stefan August 17th, 2009

A lot of beautiful designs. I will save this for inspiration later on.

Dale August 17th, 2009

Great examples of 3 column designs, good variety.
As the screens get wider and resolution better, we’ll start to see more 3 column designs as well as four column designs pretty soon.
The Duirwaigh Studios design is simply gorgeous, possibly takes away from the content but nevertheless, good-lookin’.

ngassmann August 17th, 2009

Wow http://rin-wendy.com/ is such a great idea. I’m jealous that my wife and I didn’t come up with that first.

Dzinepress August 17th, 2009

really nice design blogs.

choen August 17th, 2009

i like ‘Some Random Dude’

Dave Sparks August 17th, 2009

NIce – I like the Rin – Wendy site the way the two columns show the two blogs.

cssah August 17th, 2009

Awesome designs, i love Veerle’s Blog design

Video backgrounds August 17th, 2009

I like the design from this blog designlab(dot)no & all the designs are quite different.

Anonymous August 17th, 2009

hi
Awesome designs, i love Veerle’s Blog design
thanks

Web Templates August 17th, 2009

The three columns design is becoming more and more popular, I’m seeing it more often. I like it. Gives 3 focal points.

Eric Shafer August 17th, 2009

Nice inspirational list, Steven. I like Duirwaigh’s design the most out of all of them.

Featured here: http://www.presidiacreative.com/best-of-the-web-32/

Nardyello August 17th, 2009

rin-wendy.com is such a clever design! I read some of their posts and they seem like great people. Their content has a very friendly tone.

Excellent visuals on most of these designs.

chicago web design studio August 17th, 2009

I thought the “Designlab” website was cute and very well done. Nice list!

Web Design Bureau of Mauritius August 18th, 2009

Thanks for this list. It made me reconsider 3 column website designs. These are really inspiring. Awesome.

Alexander Bickov August 18th, 2009

Really nice ideas. I think the better idea is Veerle’s Blog idea

4night August 18th, 2009

Great idea from Rin-Wendy.

Danny | dannyhinde August 19th, 2009

Great collection, I’m a fan of the 3 columns and have it on mine too!

Rob August 19th, 2009

Looking at these designs has been very inspirational to me and good design work like this really helps with my development as a web and graphic designer. Have bookmarked this page :) .

Rin-Wendy and Lord Likely are my favorites.These designs are inspiration enough to revamp my personal blog. will save them for future use. thanks!

wrought iron furniture August 20th, 2009

We’ll start to see more 3 column designs as well as four column designs pretty soon. Thanks!

Kussa August 20th, 2009

Cooollll..!! awesome, i love this theme :D uirwaigh Studios. natural artistic and glamour..

Fuad Ahasan Chowdhury August 25th, 2009

I like the Kris Kolvin one most! thats fantastic

Trent Walton August 27th, 2009

Awww shucks… thanks for the Austin Town Hall mention. FYI: this article was published about a week before we launched our brand spankin’ new redesign: http://austintownhall.com

Create a Website September 13th, 2009

Nice design. Great article and thanks a lot for sharing.

ritika September 16th, 2009

grat stuff, i like most Duirwaigh Studios but all designs have good creativty.

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