CategoryBlog Design

Blogging Tips: First Impressions Count
22nd of June 2007 Lorelle VanFossen 0 Comments

Blogging Tips: First Impressions Count

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
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Does Blog Design Matter in the Early Stages of a Blog?
5th of June 2007 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

Does Blog Design Matter in the Early Stages of a Blog?

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
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Custom vs Premade Blog Themes
7th of April 2007 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

Custom vs Premade Blog Themes

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
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Important Elements of Blog Design & Layout
23rd of March 2007 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

Important Elements of Blog Design & Layout

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
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Does Blog Design Matter in an Age of Feed Readers?
16th of January 2007 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

Does Blog Design Matter in an Age of Feed Readers?

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
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Resources for creating a WordPress theme
3rd of January 2007 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

Resources for creating a WordPress theme

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.
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Top 10 Technorati Blogs Layout Composite Map
1st of December 2006 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

Top 10 Technorati Blogs Layout Composite Map

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
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Designing with Colour – Tips
1st of November 2006 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

Designing with Colour – Tips

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
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Increasing Blog Readability
31st of October 2006 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

Increasing Blog Readability

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
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