Blog Design, Important & Overlooked

Blog Design is one of the most important aspects of your blog itself, it is the front door, where people who walk in may already be on their way out if your blog is ugly, badly organized and does not have flow to it. Being a visitor to countless website I do and probably many other people out there too like organized navigation with some quick links to good articles.

Some people are still getting their designs wrong, they put all these recent articles in a column that is miniscule with a font that does not differ from their background hence making it a big blur. In addition to this some people decide that it is perfectly fine to stick five, six, seven or even eight 125×125 ad buttons on their site when they look as out of place as a rickshaw in the streets of new york.

GET SERIOUS ABOUT DESIGN

I am asking everyone to get serious about their blog design, if you want a new design but you don’t know how to do it…guess what go to www.elance.com and hire a web designer who will do it all for you. I can also reccommend Nate Whitehill of Unique Blog Designs and Weborithm who recently revamped JohnCow.Com.

If you are a designer please make the following changes today.

1. Reduce your top articles from 10 to maybe only 6 or 8
2. Remove 125×125 ad boxes which look out of place and reposition them
3. Make text a different colour than one which looks almost exactly like you background
4. Don’t let your blog become a victim of OVER MONETIZATION, by this I mean slapping AdSense left, right and centre.

So, don’t overlook your design, because without a friendly inviting environment for readers to read your post, you are basically signalling them with a big red arrow to leave your site, never come back again and don’t think about clicking that RSS feed button.

It’s time to Get Real about Blog Design.

Posted on October 26, 2007
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