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Design Your Blog Effectively

Discussion in 'Content Management' started by monsur, May 9, 2011.

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    One common factor among all successful blogs is they all have a powerful design statement. To make such a design statement on your own blog, use the following tips.

    For the most part, it is essential for your blog to have efficient navigation. Period. Readers shouldn't be forced to explore the entire blog just to get to where they want to. To put it another way, it should be fairly straightforward for them to find the way through each portion of your blog without any perplexity. You can't force the users to "ruminate" when it comes to assisting them in looking through your blog. Whatever you decide you'd like them to navigate through whether it is via tags or categories or any other method, the blog's routing plays a vital role. Therefore when building your blog, this is one of the essential constituents to keep in mind. It's also a good idea to design some effective secondary navigation where the popular or related blog posts are shown. When you make it easy for the readers to find out specific types of posts, it will make them happy because in a way, you helped them discover new content. Secondly, make the most of your 404 page and adorn it. It's an actuality that people do come upon 404 error pages occasionally; a number of them might just type the URL or your blog wrong or it could be on account of a small change you made to your permalink structure. Whatever the instance is, making your 404's more appealing should be on your list. The basic 404 page that you come across is plain, common and yes, boring. This is a sphere where you can be inimitable. 404 pages can help you fostering faith, entertaining readers, and additionally help your readers come across fields that they hadn't seen before. Try to furnish your readers with a simple way to reorient themselves and an additional option to learn about something new and fascinating on your blog.

    Lastly; take advantage of post graphics and do something nifty and stylish with them. Let's confront it; post thumbnails have turned into a vital portion of any blog's design. It's amazing how much sense an image can drill into a blog post and make it stand out in terms of the design; it polishes the blog's presentation. Being imaginative with your posts graphics is one thing that every blogger should be aware of. If you take a look around, quite a few of the admired blogs make sure that they utilize the most excellent photos that are related to the blog post. You can subscribe to one of the countless services that give you permission to access stock free photos that you can make use of with no restraints, on account that there could be copyright concerns if you apply just unmethodical images that you come upon online.

    You need to have an effective design for your blog if you want it to succeed. The above factors will all help you as you create a unique design for your blog.
     
    monsur, May 9, 2011 IP
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    jmbinfo Well-Known Member

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    Good sound information. Thanks for the post. The 404 non-design is a common mistake.
     
    jmbinfo, May 9, 2011 IP
  3. monsur

    monsur Well-Known Member

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    Dear Moderator ,
    Perhaps this post should be under blogging.I am sorry if this is not the right place.May you please move it under the right category as I did not see any option to do it myself?
     
    monsur, May 9, 2011 IP
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    jasonme Peon

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    I totally agree, great information. But a lot of it was basics, it's a bit of common sense.
     
    jasonme, May 9, 2011 IP