Obviously many (like considering who your audience is, how your page will be used, paying attention to details, etc) also apply to designing any site.
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7 Blog Design Tips from a Content Strategist
When designing a weblog, it's imperative to make sure the content is at the forefront. These sets of tips are from a content strategist.
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An extensive and excellent collection of portfolio sites, mainly for designers and developers. Still, food for inspiration…
Of all of the types of websites, the portfolio site has to overcome what might be some of the most difficult hurdles. Talk to almost any designer and they will agree, launching your own portfolio site is a painful process. Most frequently, this process includes numerous versions and, often times, a launch out of sheer frustration.
Full article : Characteristics of a modern portfolio site | Webdesigner Depot.
Here is an excellent introduction to core values of good design. Read it and check which apply to your site 
Good visual design offers more than improving people’s attitudes to a design. Good visual design will actually make interfaces easier to use.
There are at least four key principles of visual design that have an important impact on usability. These four principles — contrast, repetition, alignment and proximity — were originally given the engaging acronym CRAP by Robin Williams (the visual designer, not the comedian). You can exploit these four principles to make user interfaces both more attractive and easier to use.
Full article: A CRAP way to improve usability | Userfocus.
An excellent case study of designing for the Web. Most often web designs start with a let’s-make-something-pretty concept instead of first realizing what is the content, the desired features and which are the user actions we want to “provoke”, and the developing a design to accommodate these elements.
UX Exchange is a Q&A site in the Stack Exchange SE family of websites, the most famous of which you probably know: Stack Overflow. Every SE site has its own look and feel, and as the UX site is getting close to graduating from beta, a new design was in order.
Full article: Designing UX Exchange.
This is the blog of Markos Giannopoulos, devoted to web development, technology, the internets, etc. I've been working on, in and around the web for the last 16 years. You can find me on Google+ and Facebook.
