Focus more on 2, 3 and 4. All my designs end up having almost similar fonts and layouts. They look good but not different. Most of my(and everyone else's) designs end up having header-content-footer layout or sidebar-content layout but there are other layout patterns that can be used :
- http://www.themealings.com.au/
- http://landor.com/
- Metro UI Look
- http://captaindash.com/
- http://www.thebullittagency.com/#!/home/
- http://www.360langstrasse.sf.tv/page/
- http://www.wingcheng.com/