Not particularly the top ten, just a random ten that I think look super great. All of these designs are original. Meaning that they're not running any of the available Habari themes out there. After all, the themes deserve an entry of their own.
The list is sorted alphabetically by title. Clicking on the preview image will take you to the respective website.
44forks
Designed and written by Nick Cernis and with his renewable and amusing writing skill, Nick will constantly prove you that etiquette, although often invisible, is still relevant even in our senseless age of the zeros and ones.
Colin Seymour
Colin claims the ownership of more blogs than OpenSolaris experts like himself often do, but if I'm not mistaken, this is happens to be his personal blog. Designed by himself and powered by Habari.
Design Intellection
A small web design studio run by David Yeiser. David also runs the twitter-based web gallery, Good Website.
Future Spark
A brilliant idea. Instead of using the conventional sources of energy, you get to work away those few extra kilos by being a human dynamo, providing power to public events. Designed by the folks at Squareweave.
InDesigning.net
A very rich source of Adobe InDesign tips and advanced techniques in addtion to occational takes on design and developement topics. Written and designed by Thomas Silkjær.
Lvx ex Cælis
The personal blog of Joel Lee, a talented designer and developer from Hualien,Taiwan who donated many themes and plugins to the Habari community.
mindgarden
Digital playground and personal blog of Marc Tobias Kunisch, a web frontend engineer and a web standards advocate. This design has to be one of my top favorites.
Paul Armstrong Designs
Now Paul, he's not a small time designer. I mean developer. I mean designer. Would you make up your mind, Paul? ;-)
Not only the design itself is über sexy, the blog often has valuable information and catchy design tricks.
Sillyness Spelled Wrong Intentionally
The personal blog and portfolio of Chris J. Davis. A developer, designer, author and speaker. Chris has done countless redesigns over the years from a great design to another but this time, he chose a whole different direction in the redesign that turned out to be great nonetheless. The new design uses CSS gradients which is not supported by Firefox yet thus I'd recommend viewing with either Safari or Chrome first.
Sw'as
Pleasant indeed. Sw'as is the blog of Simon Elvery, a Brisbane based web developer, designer and a great photographer. Simon is a valuable Habari contributor and had written a number of great Habari plugins.
Did I miss something?
These were part of the originally designed Habari powered sites that I'm aware of. If you know one that I missed and you think I shouldn't have, please let me know in the comments section below.
Great list, Ali. Really pleased to see a few in that list I haven't seen before. And obviously, I'm honoured to be included with some seriously impressive company.