Blog Website Examples

A blog website is a site built around a feed of dated posts: the newest writing sits at the top, and older posts stay findable through categories, tags, and an archive. This page collects real blog website examples grouped by type, then breaks down the anatomy of a blog homepage and a blog post page and gives you a copyable HTML template. It is part of the website examples library.

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Blog website examples at a glance

Every blog below is a real, long-running site. The platform column is filled in only where the platform is well documented; a dash means the platform is not stated here, not that it is unknown to the world. Each blog is broken down in more detail in the next section.

What is a blog website?

A blog website publishes posts in reverse-chronological order. The post is the unit of the site: each one has a title, a date, an author, and its own URL, and the homepage is mostly a list of recent posts. Everything else — categories, tags, search, an archive, an About page, an email signup — exists to help readers find older posts and come back for new ones.

A blog can be the whole site (a personal or niche blog) or one section of a larger site (a company blog at /blog/). Either way, the patterns below repeat.

Blog vs personal site vs portfolio

Many personal sites include a blog, and many blogs are run by one person, so the lines blur. The difference is what the homepage leads with: a blog leads with the latest posts.

Blog website examples by type

The real examples below are limited to what is publicly observable on each blog: its subject, structure, and recurring patterns. Nothing here states traffic, income, subscriber counts, or business results. Platforms are named only where they are well documented.

Personal blogs

Seth's Blog — seths.blog

Kottke.org — kottke.org

Marginal Revolution — marginalrevolution.com

Food blogs

Smitten Kitchen — smittenkitchen.com

Budget Bytes — budgetbytes.com

Minimalist Baker — minimalistbaker.com

Love and Lemons — loveandlemons.com

Travel blogs

Nomadic Matt — nomadicmatt.com

Adventurous Kate — adventurouskate.com

The Blonde Abroad — theblondeabroad.com

Tech blogs

Coding Horror — blog.codinghorror.com

Simon Willison's Weblog — simonwillison.net

Joel on Software — joelonsoftware.com

Julia Evans — jvns.ca

Business and company blogs

Stripe blog — stripe.com/blog

HubSpot Blog — blog.hubspot.com

Netflix TechBlog — netflixtechblog.com

The Cloudflare Blog — blog.cloudflare.com

Blogger and Blogspot examples

Blogger is Google's free blogging platform. Blogs on it get a blogspot.com address by default and can use a custom domain instead. Several of Google's own long-running blogs are hosted on Blogger with custom domains, which makes them good Blogger examples.

Google Testing Blog — testing.googleblog.com

Google Open Source Blog — opensource.googleblog.com

Android Developers Blog — android-developers.googleblog.com

Minimalist blogs

Daring Fireball — daringfireball.net

Paul Graham's essays — paulgraham.com/articles.html

The anatomy of a blog homepage

Blog homepages vary in style, but most of them reuse the same skeleton. The diagram below is an illustrative pattern, not a specific real site.

+--------------------------------------------------------------+
| HEADER   Blog name        Home  Recipes  About  Search  [Sub] |
+--------------------------------------------------------------+
| FEATURED POST                                                 |
|   [ image ]   Post title                                      |
|               One-sentence excerpt · Date · Author            |
|               Read more ->                                    |
+--------------------------------------------------------------+
| CATEGORIES   Weeknight · Baking · Soups · Vegetarian          |
+--------------------------------------------------------------+
| LATEST POSTS                                                  |
|   [img] Title · date · excerpt                                |
|   [img] Title · date · excerpt                                |
|   [img] Title · date · excerpt                                |
|   Older posts ->                                              |
+--------------------------------------------------------------+
| SIGNUP   Get new posts by email   [ email ] [ Subscribe ]     |
+--------------------------------------------------------------+
| FOOTER   About · Archive · Contact · RSS · Privacy            |
+--------------------------------------------------------------+

The sections in order:

1. Header — the blog's name, a short menu, search, and often a subscribe link
2. Featured post — one post given more space: the newest, the most popular, or a "start here" post for new readers
3. Categories — the handful of topics the blog covers, so a reader can jump to theirs
4. Latest posts — a reverse-chronological list with title, date, and a short excerpt
5. Signup — an email or RSS subscription so readers come back without remembering to
6. Footer — About, archive, contact, RSS, and legal links

The real examples above show how far this skeleton stretches. Daring Fireball and Paul Graham drop the images and the featured post; Smitten Kitchen and Minimalist Baker lean on categories and a recipe index; HubSpot splits the homepage into topic sections. For choosing the pages behind the menu, see website structure examples.

Blog post page examples

The post page is where readers spend their time, so it matters more than the homepage. Most post pages use some version of the layout below. This is an illustrative pattern.

+--------------------------------------------------------------+
| HEADER (same as the homepage)                                 |
+--------------------------------------------------------------+
| Category                                                      |
| POST TITLE                                                    |
| By Author Name · Published date · Reading time                |
+------------------------------------------+-------------------+
| ARTICLE                                  | TABLE OF CONTENTS |
|   Intro paragraph                        |   1. Section one  |
|   ## Section one                         |   2. Section two  |
|   ## Section two                         |   3. Section three|
|   ## Section three                       |                   |
+------------------------------------------+-------------------+
| AUTHOR BOX   [photo] Name — one-line bio — link to About      |
+--------------------------------------------------------------+
| RELATED POSTS   Title · Title · Title                         |
+--------------------------------------------------------------+
| COMMENTS or SIGNUP                                            |
+--------------------------------------------------------------+

The parts that do the most work:

• Article layout — a single readable column, roughly 60–75 characters per line, with real subheadings. Coding Horror and Paul Graham's essays show how far plain text in a narrow column can go.
• Byline and date — who wrote it and when. Readers use the date to judge whether advice is still current; Marginal Revolution and the Cloudflare Blog put the author on every post.
• Author box — a photo, a one-line bio, and a link to the About page at the end of the post. It answers "who is this?" for readers who arrived from search.
• Table of contents — for long guides, a list of jump links to each section. It suits long how-to posts like travel guides and tutorials more than short essays.
• Related posts — two or three links to the next thing to read, so a reader who finishes one post does not leave.
• Recipe or summary card — on food blogs, a structured card at the end with ingredients and steps, so readers who skip the story can still cook.

Copyable HTML blog template

The template below is a complete single blog post page in one HTML file: header, article with byline, a table of contents, an author box, and a footer. It uses a fictional blog, The Slow Kitchen, so nothing here describes a real site. Save it as index.html and open it in a browser.

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
  <meta charset="utf-8" />
  <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" />
  <title>How to Make Weeknight Lentil Soup · The Slow Kitchen</title>
  <meta name="description" content="A simple lentil soup you can make in one pot on a weeknight." />
  <style>
    body { margin: 0; font-family: Georgia, serif; color: #222; background: #fffdf8; line-height: 1.7; }
    header, footer { font-family: system-ui, sans-serif; padding: 16px 24px; border-bottom: 1px solid #e7e2d8; }
    header { display: flex; justify-content: space-between; align-items: center; }
    header a, footer a { color: #222; text-decoration: none; margin-left: 16px; }
    .brand { font-weight: 700; margin-left: 0; }
    main { max-width: 680px; margin: 0 auto; padding: 40px 24px; }
    .meta { font-family: system-ui, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; color: #6b6458; }
    nav.toc { background: #f4efe4; border-radius: 8px; padding: 12px 20px; font-family: system-ui, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; }
    .author { display: flex; gap: 16px; align-items: center; border-top: 1px solid #e7e2d8; margin-top: 40px; padding-top: 24px; font-family: system-ui, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; }
    .avatar { width: 56px; height: 56px; border-radius: 50%; background: #e7e2d8; flex-shrink: 0; }
    footer { border-top: 1px solid #e7e2d8; border-bottom: 0; text-align: center; font-size: 14px; }
  </style>
</head>
<body>
  <header>
    <a class="brand" href="/">The Slow Kitchen</a>
    <nav aria-label="Main">
      <a href="/recipes/">Recipes</a>
      <a href="/about/">About</a>
      <a href="/subscribe/">Subscribe</a>
    </nav>
  </header>

  <main>
    <article>
      <p class="meta">Soups</p>
      <h1>How to Make Weeknight Lentil Soup</h1>
      <p class="meta">By Ana Torres · <time datetime="2026-10-20">October 20, 2026</time></p>

      <nav class="toc" aria-label="Table of contents">
        <strong>In this post</strong>
        <ol>
          <li><a href="#ingredients">Ingredients</a></li>
          <li><a href="#method">Method</a></li>
          <li><a href="#storing">Storing leftovers</a></li>
        </ol>
      </nav>

      <p>This is the soup I make when the fridge is nearly empty. It needs one pot and pantry staples.</p>

      <h2 id="ingredients">Ingredients</h2>
      <ul>
        <li>1 cup red lentils, rinsed</li>
        <li>1 onion and 2 carrots, chopped</li>
        <li>4 cups vegetable stock</li>
      </ul>

      <h2 id="method">Method</h2>
      <p>Soften the onion and carrots in a little oil, add the lentils and stock, and simmer until the lentils fall apart.</p>

      <h2 id="storing">Storing leftovers</h2>
      <p>Keep it covered in the fridge and add a splash of water when you reheat it.</p>

      <aside class="author" aria-label="About the author">
        <div class="avatar" role="img" aria-label="Photo of Ana Torres"></div>
        <p><strong>Ana Torres</strong> writes simple recipes for busy weeknights. <a href="/about/">More about Ana</a></p>
      </aside>
    </article>
  </main>

  <footer>
    <a href="/archive/">Archive</a>
    <a href="/feed.xml">RSS</a>
    <a href="/privacy/">Privacy</a>
  </footer>
</body>
</html>

The template uses the semantic elements a blog post needs: <article> for the post, <time> for the date, a labelled <nav> for the table of contents, and <aside> for the author box. For a full one-file site with the structure explained line by line, see the HTML website example.

Choosing a blog platform: WordPress vs Blogger vs static

The platform decides how you write, how the blog is hosted, and how much maintenance it needs. Readers rarely notice which one you chose; the patterns on this page work on all of them.

• WordPress started as blogging software, and posts, categories, tags, and comments are built in. See real sites and the post-first patterns in WordPress website examples.
• Blogger is the quickest way to a free blog, as the Google blogs above show. The trade-off is fewer design and feature options.
• A static site turns posts into plain HTML files that any host can serve. Generators such as Hugo, Jekyll, and Eleventy build those files from Markdown. The static website example page explains how a site made of files works.

Hosted platforms such as Ghost and Medium sit in between: Coding Horror and the Netflix TechBlog above are examples.

FAQ

Want a website built for you?

If you would rather start from a finished design than build a blog from scratch, the same ready-made personal and professional designs featured on the personal website examples page are available. See our web designer website example, graphic designer website example, or consultant website example, each of which can be customized with your name, work, and content.

Where to go next

A blog is built around one habit: publishing posts readers can find again. Start from the homepage and post page anatomy above, then borrow the specifics from the examples that match your niche. If the blog is part of a site about you, the personal website examples page covers the rest of that site; if your posts sit next to a body of work, see the portfolio website examples. To build it by hand, start from the HTML website example and the static website example; to use a CMS, see WordPress website examples. For the pages and copy around your posts, see website structure examples and welcome message examples.