Getting help designing blogs

There are lots of ways to design blogs, ranging from the simplest route of just using a free template to actually getting down into the code and changing or designing the format yourself. For design help, there's sites like Mandarin, and others, where you can get professional tools. I have included a color chart link at the side because I personally like to at least fool around with the colors and you need the HTML reference numbers. There are several sites with additional free templates, very spacy looking. There a number of unofficial blog award sites where you can look at what someone has called the best blogs.
When you finally like what you have yourself, there is always the option of listing your blog on Google.