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Why I’m Using a 3 Column Layout 2008-11-25 03:46:29 There are a few seemingly perpetual debates in web design. 800x600 vs 1024x768. Fixed vs fluid. Content on the right or left. The choice of using a 2 column layout or a 3 column one is another of these. Advantages of a Two Column
Layout Forces minimalism. There tends to be less sidebar room in a 2 column layout. You simply don't have the space for 100 different widgets without overstretching the p
5 Ways to Get More Space On the Page 2008-11-25 03:44:42 As bloggers, we all want to put as much content as we can on the page, but make it look like as little as we can. It's an interesting paradox, which doesn't always have an answer. In certain circumstances however, there are indeed ways of cheating the rule, and serving your readers better by doing so. In this article, I will talk about the 5 main options available to you, and by knowing them, you Read more:Space
Should a Sidebar go on the left or rights? 2008-11-25 03:42:47 Whether you use a 3 column layout or a 2 column layout, you have to choose which side you want your content on, and which side you want your sidebar on. Left or right? Which is best? As always, the answer is; it depends on your blog. Why Have It On the Right? Western readers read left to right. When scanning a page, we will scan left to right (And top to bottom). Put your sidebar on the right, and Read more:Sidebar
7 Elements to Make Your Blog Look Great 2008-11-25 03:26:01 In What Makes a Design Good?, I talked about the technical aspects of a good design, like site and user goals, branding, and distinction. I did not however answer the question of what makes a design look good. What makes one blog visually attractive, but makes another one ugly? There is no mathematical solution, but there is an artsy one. A good looking design is a combination of a number of facto Read more:Great
Make your Blog Template Unique 2008-11-25 03:24:25 There are some obvious dangers to using a template, like malicious coding and such, but there is another, not so obvious danger. What if your template causes your blog to vanish into the blogosphere? What if it makes you boring? The very best looking template in the world is the very worst template you can use, because everyone else is already using it. If your blog does not stand out from the doz Read more:Blog Template
The 4 Aspects of Good Design 2008-11-25 03:23:04 There are many factors, but we can wrap the main ones under 4 umbrellas. These are what I would consider the main elements of a good blog design to be. Achieve Site Goals - What is your purpose for having the blog? What do you want visitors to do?Achieve User Goals - What is your user's purpose on the site? What do they want to do? Your blog's design should promote usability, and help make the use
Five Blog Design Mistakes that Make You Look Dumb 2008-11-25 03:12:09 Blog design rules are not set in stone by any mean, but there are a few things that you can do when designing your blog that really will hurt your blog’s success. While we all like to believe that the content is more important than the design, there is just no getting around the fact that the blog design is what your visitors use and see when they navigate your awesome content. If you make dumb
How to Design a Better Blog and Make More Money 2008-11-25 03:10:00 Why is Your Blog Design Important to Your Blog’s Success? You have been told over and over again that the key to success with your blog is creating quality content. That is true, I won’t argue with that, but if it was that easy how come your blog isn’t as successful as you wish it to be? I know it isn’t, because you are still looking for new articles on how to make it even better. What peo Read more:Money
Never stop improving if you want to be the best 2008-11-25 03:08:35 The title of this article is still true even if you don’t want to be the best. By constantly working on yourself and improving little by little you will be able to get a whole lot better faster. The following articles pretty much covers a lot of the good resources available online to help you improve your skills. 50 Ways to Become a Better Designer Stepping Up Your Skills: Areas for Continual Im
Blog design + Psychology = Food for thought 2008-11-25 03:07:02 If I can only use one word to describe my bookshelf, I would have to say “a total mess.” Over the years I have collected a wide variety of different books based on my interests and they fall into a wide assortment of categories from business to improving my social skills. My biggest passions are blog design
and psychology so I have been thinking about how they relate to each other.In psycholog Read more:thought
Designing a better blog 2008-11-25 03:04:12 In order to redesign my blog, over the past few days I have been soaking up inspiration from other blogs, reading books on blogging, and closing my eyes while on the train and imagining the different possibilities the blog could look like. I find the last one to be a very interesting and helpful tool to not only design websites, but to survive the daily commute as well. This is all done in an effo Read more:better
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The beginning of a blog design 2008-11-25 03:02:25 This is my experience over the last few days trying to come up with a new blog design
.In my experience with creativity and coming up with ideas in general, there is certainly no wrong or right way to go about generating ideas especially when nothing is coming to mind right away. There are certainly old and tired methods that we learned from a while back and we still do when we are desperate. For i
The Secret of Great Blog Designs 2008-11-25 02:59:43 What is the purpose of a blog design? There are no blog designs that doesn’t have any effect on its blog, its message, and its goals. A blog design is either helping you move forward with your blog or it is not only hindering you from moving forward, but actually pushing you backwards. There exists no stand still between the two, because a blog’s design acts as the frame that a reader uses to Read more:Designs
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17 Resources for Creating a Blog Design 2008-11-25 02:58:39 1. Weblog Usability - Top Ten Design Mistakes Jakob Nielsen gives us the run down of the top 10 blog design mistakes. When Jakob talks, I listen… sometimes. I can’t help it, he has a lot to say. But his breakdown of the top 10 design mistakes is quick to the point so give it a read. 2. 13 Blog Cliches Cliches suck, here are 13 of them for blogs. Yes, the calendar is one of them! Get rid of the Read more:Blog Design
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Ultimate guide to designing blogs 2008-11-25 02:29:20 Introduction When designing blogs I noticed there are a few different design elements that I have to take into account every time. I have broken these different design elements into nine different parts. The more attention you give to each part, the better your overall blog design will be. HeaderContent AreaPrimary NavigationSecondary NavigationHeadlinesCommentsPost’s FooterFooterAdvertisements1 Read more:Ultimate
17 Resources for Creating a Blog Design 2008-11-25 02:23:26 1. Weblog Usability - Top Ten Design Mistakes Jakob Nielsen gives us the run down of the top 10 blog design mistakes. When Jakob talks, I listen… sometimes. I can’t help it, he has a lot to say. But his breakdown of the top 10 design mistakes is quick to the point so give it a read. 2. 13 Blog Cliches Cliches suck, here are 13 of them for blogs. Yes, the calendar is one of them! Get rid of the Read more:Blog Design
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Successful blogging starts with a Unique Blog Design. 2008-11-25 02:14:31 Successful blogging starts with a Unique Blog Design. We are a company that provides WordPress and MoveableType blog, website and CMS solutions that will help you build a community, increase traffic and ROI, and grow your brand.
Blog Promotion — Tips to Get Traffic and Increase Readership 2008-11-25 01:59:52 Blog PromotionWhen I got started with my first blog in 2004, I scoured the Internet every day to find news and subscribe to RSS feeds. Just by highlighting news and link to them, I could grow my traffic level to several thousands every month. Not bad at all, considering that I knew nothing much about blog promotion.Why Starting a Blog is Different NowNowadays, the competitions are stiff in almost
7 Blog Promotion Techniques 2008-11-25 01:55:03 A reader asked me a question that I found quite intriguing, “How do I get people to find my blog posts?” There are a number of ways that people can come across you and your blog posts. Here are just a few. Search Engines - Google, Yahoo, MSN and Ask are constantly looking for new content to crawl and rank. Ensure your site is search friendly and submit an XML sitemap for faster indexing. Be
Big List of Blog Search Engines 2008-11-25 01:49:47 My new theory on blogging is that whenever I can't find a particular piece of information on Google I should just create it myself. What's the point of all this easy-to-use publishing technology if you don't publish stuff, right? Well, I recently created a new blog, MyLabIsOnFire.com and wanted to find a quick checklist of all the blog and rss search engines so I could submit the site and reap th Read more:Blog Search
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SEO 2004 2008-11-25 01:48:36 There once was a time when people used meta tags, creative and overlong headlines, multiple dashes in file names, and a lot of other magic. These were the innocent days of optimizing your pages for a search engine, using quite innocent methodology. This used to work. It still does, for some engines. Not so for Google. The major search engine must prevent itself from being tricked.These days, what Read more:SEO
Want a Popular Blog? Put Your Ego Aside 2008-11-25 01:38:04 In this post Daniel Scocco examines personal branding vs blog branding. When creating a blog, you need to decide if you want to build the brand around the blog itself or around your person. While doing both things at the same time is possible, it will make achieving either of the goals a harder task. Additionally, if you want to maximize the traffic and growth potential of the blog (for making mo
10 Important Facts of Blog Promotion 2008-11-25 01:36:54 Almost every blogger aims to grow their blog and reach a larger audience. Unfortunately, most new bloggers don’t know much about promoting a blog when they are just getting started. The good news is you will learn pretty quickly if you are consistently involved and working at promoting your blog. Here are ten things that I have learned to be true from my experience. 1. Building Significant Searc
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