Components/aspects of pages
Stealing passwords from McDonald's users - Tijme Gommers: transparent nav bar in header
How "Key Convincer Phrases" can land you the gig every time 'V' in header, done w/ SVG
Stratechery by Ben Thompson – On the business, strategy, and impact of technology. Great overall design, love the footnote widget (..., click to see note).
AMP and Incentives - TimKadlec.com. Like the header. Like the date overlaid a line in the heading.
https://tridnguyen.com/. Great header. Navigation on left, photo and tagline on right.
https://0x65.net/ and https://0x65.net/j/. beautiful shadows behind headings, reminds me of oldblog.samat.org design. text-shadow: 0 0 1px #667
https://www.tildedave.com/posts.html. Great heading
https://www.slightfuture.com/error-page-404-preview. Error 404 page. has search, and links to most recent posts. Uses Nikola; per-post header images.
http://syntheti.cc/van-build/. Box around photos.
padding: 20px;
background-color: white;
box-shadow: 0px 3px 16px -2px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.4);
margin: 0.5em auto;
http://nobi.com/ Great, transparent header.
header {
background: #333;
background: 00000080;
}
a { color: white; text-shadow: 0 2px 0 black; }
Mailpile blog: line height, extra-large headings
Full designs
https://kjellski.github.io/. Dark colors, monospaced, beautiful blues and greens.
Emanuel Quimper. Dark colors, monospaced.
❤. Monospaced theme, Nikola-based.
Rasmus Andersson: Light-colored monospaced theme
http://blog.jacobtorrey.com/rowhammer-defensive-programming
http://williampross.com/tech-companies-trend-backing-losing-candidate/ Header with animated title text. Header (and homepage) with background graphic, along with animations on scroll.
Aurélien Jarno: Nice black, grey, and white look. Rounded boxes.
http://www.ybrikman.com/writing/2014/04/09/six-programming-paradigms-that-will/: Navbar, header, etc.
https://blog.haschek.at/2016/my-door-sends-me-chat-messages.html : Header, body, etc.
https://www.tnhh.net/: Entire design, love the white & black minimal look.
Landing pages
https://abrah.am/ - Uses Twitter cards, OpenGraph, looks good. Uses JS to load higher-resolution background image. FontAwesome for social network links, etc.
http://jefftannenbaum.com/. Love the fading in from black into the background image; great detail.
Themes
The Base. Medium-like theme called Mediator
Minimal Mistakes, a Jekyll Theme × Made Mistakes. Used by https://blog.kylemanna.com/
Wordpress Intergalatic theme. Variant used on levels.io