CategoryBlog Design

Blog Design – When to Go for a Professional Template?
17th of November 2007 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

Blog Design – When to Go for a Professional Template?

Time for a little reader discussion. This one is inspired by a question from Frederico from Tutorialstream.com who is considering starting a new blog and asks: I was wondering if you think that starting with a standard/free/low quality template and after some time (when I have some kind of readership) ...more
Blog Design
Using Images to Take Your Posts to a New Level
13th of November 2007 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

Using Images to Take Your Posts to a New Level

Click To Play play_blip_movie_483532(); With millions of blog posts being added to the web each day – bloggers need to consider more than just the content that they are posting and think about how they can design their posts to grab attention. One element of this post design is adding ...more
Blog Design
Need a New Blog Logo? Here’s a Special Offer for You
4th of November 2007 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

Need a New Blog Logo? Here’s a Special Offer for You

A couple of weeks ago I received a package in the mail from a company by the name of Logo Design Guru. It contained two gifts – one for me and one for you. The gift for me – my gift was a book by the name of Get a ...more
Blog Design
WordPress to Launch Theme Marketplace
2nd of November 2007 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

WordPress to Launch Theme Marketplace

While in Argentina Matt from WordPress announced that there will soon be an official WordPress Premium Theme Marketplace launched where designers get 50% of any income brought in from a design sold. via FayerWayer (Spanish) and ReadWriteWeb. David at BlogHerald shares some concerns about this development and asks if Matt’s ...more
Blog Design
Talking about Blog Design: Podcast
23rd of October 2007 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

Talking about Blog Design: Podcast

One of the things that I love about blogging is the people that you ‘meet’ through it. One of the people that I met (both virtually and then in real life on a couple of occasions) is Yaro Starak – the guy behind the Blog Mastermind. The picture is from ...more
Blog Design
Create a Custom 404 Error Page for Your Blog
11th of September 2007 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

Create a Custom 404 Error Page for Your Blog

When someone comes to a page on your domain that is no longer there (either because it’s been deleted, because they’ve typed something in wrong or because the link that they followed was wrong) they are shown the dreaded 404 ‘page not found’ error page. This error simply means that ...more
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The Right Width for Your Blog
30th of August 2007 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

The Right Width for Your Blog

The following post on blog width was submitted by Michael Martin from Pro Blog Design. 800×600… 1024×768… 1280×1024… There are dozens of different screen resolutions available, and what’s more is that not all users have their browsers at full size, making it even harder to choose a resolution to design ...more
Blog Design
Declutter your Sidebar
10th of August 2007 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

Declutter your Sidebar

Today’s task in the 31 Day Project is to Declutter your sidebar Blog clutter has a way of creeping up on almost all bloggers. I’ve let it creep up as much as the next blogger and a big task in getting a new design together has been working out what ...more
31 Days to Building a Better Blog
Should Links Open in a New Window?
26th of June 2007 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

Should Links Open in a New Window?

Joanna asks – “I’d find it useful to hear your views Darren on the question of links opening in a new window. I was tutored to set them up to open in a new window so I didn’t lose visitors, but I see other people think it’s ‘spammy’.” The old ...more
Blog Design