CategoryBlog Design

The following is a guest post by Lorelle VanFossen of Lorelle on WordPress and an excerpt from her popular book, Blogging Tips, Tips Bloggers Won’t Tell You About Blogging. There are several “first impressions” your blog makes as it struggles to attract and hold on to readers. Few of those ...more

Jennifer asked – “I know a better layout would be more useful to my readers. Is it better to redesign early in the game?” Two main thoughts come to mind: 1. Design does matter – I’ve written on why previously but I think it is one strategy that can really ...more

The following post on custom vs premade blog themes was submitted by Matthew Coddington from Net Business Blog. At one point in every blogger’s career he or she has to make a choice between investing in a custom template or staying the course with a premade, downloadable template. There are ...more

Hello everyone, I’m Matt from NetBusinessBlog.com. I’ve been doing web design and development for the last 7 years but have just recently started blogging. Hope you find my content on par with the rest of the articles here, and don’t be afraid to let me know what you think. The ...more

Paolo Amoroso sent me an email this week asking: Why do you emphasize blog design? After all, many users follow blogs via news readers. Is it known what fraction of users use a news reader as opposed to regularly accessing blog sites? Good question Paolo. There are a number of ...more

Rachel’s put together a list of Useful resources for creating a WordPress theme which kicks a new series of posts for those wanting to create WordPress themes.

Healthbolt has done some nice analysis of the layouts of top 10 blogs at Technorati and comes up with the following Composite Map. It gives a unique insight at how a small group of top blogs arrange themselves. See it at full size and with a key to interpret the ...more

Mark Boulton is running a helpful series on Five Simple Steps to Designing With Colour which those of us who are ‘design-challenged’ might find helpful. He’s written two posts so far at here and here. Mark is also putting together a book called Five Simple Steps – Designing for the ...more

One of the more recent additions to my RSS feed is more minimal – a blog about… minimalism. One of the latest posts on it relates to blogging – five ways to make your blog more readable. focus your content reduce the amount of text on your page stick with ...more