CategoryBlog Design

Hello again, fellow bloggers! Last month, we talked about how to find and interpret your blog’s readability score. If you weren’t happy with what you found, don’t worry: there are plenty of ways to improve readability and we’ll look at a few today. Some, such as using shorter sentences, may ...more

This guest post is by The Blog Tyrant. One of the hardest tasks a blogger can face is getting readers to stick around. In actual fact, its one of the most important things you’ll ever learn to do. Why? Because unless those visitors delve deeper into your site you are ...more

This guest post is by Liane of the Blog Design Team. After almost three years of blogging, and about the same time spent discovering my addiction to graphic design, I’ve come to realize that both of my passion go hand in hand. Blogging and design is a match made in ...more

This guest post is by Josh Mullineaux, co-founder of Highlighter.com and Unique Blog Designs. Over the past four years, my business has completed over 500 custom blog projects and through that experience, we’ve learned the ins and outs of a what contributes to a successful blog design. Today, I wanted ...more

One of my favorite WordPress themes – Thesis – has in the last week released an update with some pretty cool features. My strategy with blog design is like this. I generally aim towards a completely customized blog design that will give my blog a distinct look and brand – ...more

One of the most common questions I’m asked by readers starting out with blogging is around blog design and how they can get an affordable but unique blog design. The irony of this is that I’m a self confessed dud when it comes to blog design. These days I hire ...more

Over the last few weeks the poll I’ve been running here on ProBlogger has asked people about who designed their blog. The results are in and it looks like that the vast majority of bloggers are not paying for themes. 61% of our readers are using free themes in some ...more

This is one of the cooler ideas I’ve seen in a while – it’s a WordPress theme site with a twist – ThemeWars. Each week two WordPress themes are featured and readers are asked to vote for their favorite. While obviously the site’s about selling WP themes it’s also kind ...more

Today, Amir Helzer from WPML (WordPress Multilingual) shares his experience building a custom WordPress theme. In my previous post, I talked about what I do when commissioning custom WordPress theme design. It left where the job started. In this post, I’ll talk about the steps that follow – working with ...more