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| Articles about Blog Design |
| New Make it Happen Blog Design Live | | 2008-07-14 23:32:07 | | Been a little quite on blogging for the last few weeks, not due to lack of action thats for sure, awesome things happening across the business, been in a business TV show, heaps of new features at the request of customers and plenty of new happy customers on board. If you’ve popped into the site [...] | | By: Make It Happen | | |
| | Great Layout or Blog Design | | 2008-06-25 00:31:00 | | My friend Carlota did customize my other blog, which the color is fuchsia, which looks great to me especially the header. You can check out http://gerlweyh.com and let me know what you think or send any msg. in my message box or in my posts. I loved my new layout and I would like she will be the one design all my blogs and she is skilled or talented in designing. How I wish I could do it by myself but those codes makes me confuse and besides I do not really have time to do it by myself. I do not have enough patience in doing it but I am willing to learn and perhaps if I knew, I could be patient by doing it by myself. I even wanted to study in designing a website, I knew it is not easy but I will learn and if I struggle or wish to know, I will learn. Okay, check out my new fresh unique layout (lol) at http://gerlweyh.com. | | By: My Trails In Life | | |
| | Custom Blog Design | | 2008-06-06 09:10:15 | | Nowadays many business organizations are using a blog system; in this term is design blog, to advertise their products through visualizing their brand and product image. Advertising a business through website or blog will need creativity on how the blog can deliver the message to the visitor or the customer.
Stylish Web Design offers you many [...] | | By: All About Share | | |
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| New Blog Design coming soon… | | 2008-06-02 23:46:19 | | We’ve been working on our blog strategy and design over the last while, as we get more of a focus on building communities, and 2 major things are going to happen. The first is getting a focus by cutting the blogs into 2; one for PlanHQ product and company related stuff, and the 2nd make [...] | | By: Make It Happen | | |
| | | The Importance of Blog Design | | 2008-04-14 00:13:42 | | Blogs have increased popularity over this past months. Many people have started to create their personal blogs to express their thoughts and feelings. Internet companies have also started their blogs to inform consumers on the latest product news and reviews.Because of this, blogs are also being used as internet marketing media. Before, internet marketing is done by placing banners and links on popular websites, such as news and information sites. Links were also included on newsletters and marketing letters sent to the members of their mailing lists.Many people spend time reading blogs. People read their friend's blogs, their favorite author's blogs, blogs on topics that they are interested in, and blogs on product reviews. With the increasing popularity of blogging, it is even feared that people rely on blogs to get the latest news.While getting news reports from blogs isn't reliable, some people look for product reviews through blogs. In some cases, this is more dependable. | | By: Make Money Online : Tips from I Digg Anything | | |
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| DESIGNATHLON - Logo Design vs Blog Design | | 2008-03-29 14:50:57 | | Time to get your self warm up now! New events are likely get you to exercise into rounds of enthusiastic battle of DESIGNATHLON competitions. :D Don't get confuse to what I'm trying to say. DESIGNATHLON is just a dummy term to describe what's going on here. There are two design competition events that I've been following recently. Held on Logo Design Love and Vandelay Website Design, I think if you could watch these competition it would be as fun as watching a game competition. You don't have t | | By: Graphic Identity | | |
| | My new blog design that I've made.... | | 2008-03-28 01:24:00 | | I'm so exhausted today, but proud of myself I made my own template..hahaha...Well the xml code came from finalsense, but I change some of the original codes and enhance my designed using Adobe Photoshop CS3. Honestly I don't know how to used Photoshop CS3 before and until know I'm still learning on it ("Thanks to my two designer friends Richard("the one who made my header in my old blog designed") and Fafa Ariel ("the one who made my friensdster header"), "thank you guys...I've learn a lot, now Cinderella will not bothering you anymore..hahaha"I decided to change my blog designed for three reason. First I don't like the designed of my old blog cause when I made it I'm so depressed at the time (emo2x thing). Second I'm sick and tired of the of the designed,it doesn't reflect the real me..."A girl that is bubbly and enthusiastic,even sometimes she's crying over spilled milk when life turns her down".Third I want to look my blog that is full of life, even some of my post is still in emo.M | | By: The truth behind my closet | | |
| | A New Blog Design Again! | | 2008-03-25 08:00:00 | | Hello readers! How do you like my new blog design? I've been aching for a fresh new look for some time now but I guess I was a little too lazy to get a new one. Partly also because I haven't really found a cool new one. By chance, I found a cool WordPress theme template from a cool designer who was kind enough to provide his well-thought creations for free.I've always wanted a WordPress-look blog since I started. I even played around with the actual free WordPress template but I got turned-off by the intricacies of the whole deal. The back-end was a little too complicated to figure out. I like simple and easy blogging. I also like the fact that my previous modified blogger template was versatile enough for me to move stuff around my blog. That's the reason I stuck with my old design.This new WP-theme blog design, however, was the answer for all my needs. It had this new cool wide professional looking design I've been looking for. It has light colors for easy reading. The style gets rid | | By: The Call Center Expert | | |
| | Designshack featured my web/blog design portfolio | | 2008-03-23 03:06:00 | | Nothing is more satisfying to a designer than being recognized for their efforts in creating a design. I finished putting together my portfolio about last month and since then I have been included in a few web galleries and top X lists, which makes me all giddy every time it happens.It is even more awesome that Designshack decided to include me, because I often use their website to find inspiration from the web’s best. Besides the little moment of fame, it is also a great way to get traffic and spread the news that your site has launched. Just another benefit of having a great design for anything, including your blog.Unfortunately, this blog’s design is not ready yet and needs some tweaking with the details to make it good enough.In other news though, I have been tweaking with this theme’s code in order to turn it into a gallery. Yes, there will be a blog design gallery with not only blog designs, but their elements too. The elements include, but certainly not limited to comment | | By: klikwae | | |
| | 5 Simple Ways to Make Your Blog Design POP | | 2008-03-23 03:04:00 | | In “The Secret of Great Blog Designs,” I talked about using schemas and the peak-end rule to not only make your blog design more memorable, but to also associate your blog with the concepts, images, and ideas that will help you towards your goals. Before we can go deeper into that, we have to first make our blog design POP. What does it mean to make a blog design POP? A blog design that pops is simply one that grabs people’s attention and can often times evoke a “Wow!” Does it mean that you must make your blog really extreme in order to get noticed? No, it does not, especially if you are doing it just for the sake of getting it noticed. The pursuit of just that one goal alone won’t get your blog design very far.But if your blog design does not pop at all, it will simply go unnoticed and disappear into the masses of everyday blogs. First we must understand how to make something pop before we go into what we can do to make our blog designs pop. It has been show in studies tha | | By: klikwae | | |
| | How to Create a Blog Design from Scratch? | | 2008-03-20 17:42:00 | | I often get asked this question by people who have been blogging for some time, but are new to blog designs. They want to get rid of their blog design templates and take their blog to the next step by having a custom blog design. There is usually just a little problem, they don’t have the money to hire someone or the expertise to build one for themselves. If this sounds like you or you just want to learn even more, then this series just is for you.In this series, I will focus on how I would learn how to create a blog design if I were to start all over again from the beginning without any knowledge in the area of blog designs, web design, or graphic design. Basically starting over from scratch with the goal of creating an awesome blog design for my blog.In this series, I will focus on how I would learn how to create a blog design if I were to start all over again from the beginning without any knowledge in the area of blog designs, web design, or graphic design. Basically starting ove | | By: klikwae | | |
| | Create a custom blog design | | 2007-12-18 05:50:49 | | Step #32 in the 101 Steps to Becoming a Better Blogger.
Create a custom blog design. Your blog is a symbol of your brand. Make it uniquely you.
I’ve tweaked the current theme alot, but there’s definitely a lot more that can be done. I’m not a coder by trade, but I do like poking around and [...] | | By: thepinkc | | |
| | Rolling Out A Unique Blog Design | | 2007-11-13 07:18:56 | | Putting together a new theme is something that I’ve had on my mind for months. Initially I tried to put something together myself, but realized it would take me way too long to learn everything I need to know about web design and coding.
Nate Whitehill of Unique Blog Designs came to the rescue with [...] | | By: Alex Shalman . com - Practical Personal Developmen | | |
| | | Blog Design - 25 KISS techniques | | 2007-09-13 03:24:00 | | I have had blog design on my mind for a few days in lieu of having the time to actually design something for my impending move to Wordpress. I came up with some wild, wonderful and complicated ideas only to end up reminding myself of the KISS principle - Keep it Simple Sue. I brought myself back to earth and reverted back to more basic web design principles and the particular needs of a blog site.These concepts apply whether you are designing a blog from scratch or trying to choose a pre-made template.Keep it Scope Sensitive1. Consider your blog's goals and target audience, what is its purpose and focus.2. A personal blog tends to have more design leeway than a business blog which often needs to follow certain professional conventions. 3. Consider the age and sex and interests of your audience whichcan influence the whole tone of your page with regard to color, image and layout . Keep it Styled SimplyReading on the web is not particularly easy on the eyes. A design take account of styling for readability . 4. Choose fonts, font sizes and colors that are easy on the eye. To state the obvious, a blog page contains a large amount of text and each page, be it archive or post pages, are the same. Blogs do not have the luxury of being able to use splash pages or images to catch and keep readers attention, the words are paramount. 5. One thing that amazes me is that as screens get larger and resolutions higher there is a tendency for smaller text. This is more noticeable in blogs that have an eye on making money online and advertising. Wanting to follow SEO recommended techniques for which elements should be in the optimizd position, they cram as much as possible into the top page area that does not require scrolling. There are some good reasons for this 'fold' area, in regards to how the eye scans a page, but go overboard and readability suffers. The quality of your posts is the drawcard to keep readers interest and to bring them back. Keep your content interesting and readers will happily scroll to read your posts. 6. Use white space to help guide the eye rather than confuse it with clutter. Space out lines and paragraphs, do not crowd them 7. Columns are used in newspapers and books for a purpose - to allow your eye to scan lines easily, without causing undue strain. Wide content areas do allow more of your post to be visible without scrolling, but the difficulty in reading may not keep your eyes, or your mind, focused for long.Widescreen monitors and full width flexible layouts increase the problem. You do not have to have your windows maximised of course, but having to change window size can be offputting. I personally find that having other windows, or even my desktop background showing, behind a reduced sized window is distracting. In general spend significantly less time on full width sites than others.On the other hand 800x 600 screens are becoming outmoded, making it less necessary to use the narrower layouts. A good stats utility will show you what resolutions your readers are using. You can use the extra area allowed by wider window sizes to add a third column to your blog rather than make your post area too wide. Keep it Sensibly SystematicConsider the placement of individual page elements: 8. Follow blogging conventions so that readers intuitively know where to find things.9. Study other blogs so that you can develop a picture of this, particularly in regard to your sidebar.Archives, categories or tags, subscription and contact options should be easy to find. Place them in a prominent position in your sidebar. Work out what other things readers of your blog may be interested in. For example, you may have other blogs or sites that they like to visit too. Don't make your readers hunt for these, as they are likely to give up and head off somewhere else. 10. A current trend is to make greater use of the footer. Ensure that long sidebar content does not make important information hard to find on individual post pages, where the footer may be well below your content. Anchor links to your footer placed near your post may be a way round this Take care with the proportions of site elements ensuring your content does not get lost. Look at the size of headers, sidebars and sidebar elements in relation to the overall layout.Ensure easy navigation around your blog pages, making everything as easy to find as possible. Keep it Simply StunningTaking account of readability, blog conventions and sensible layout, your blog design concept will be now be plain but well organized. Now you can think of adding styling elements that will distinguish your blog and mark it as yours; but do not compromise your basic planning principles.11. Browse showcase and blog directory sites for ideas - take screenshots or bookmark them for later reference. If you wish to discover how certain elements are styled, use a utility such as the Scrapbook extension for Firefox to do a quick download of the page or look at the sites source code. 12. Always remember that you are designing for a blog and unless you are aiming for a young, My Space kind readership, avoid gaudiness glitter and glare.Use your heading and logo to make your blog distinguishable but do not make it so large that readers need to scroll too far to reach your top post. 13. Keep in mind that images in posts are attractive and help break up the large amounts of text in your content area. Keeping the rest of your design clear and clean means that these images draw focus and interest to your posts. You have more freedom in post image, color and size as you don't have to worry about clashing with surrounding images and colors. Keep it Smartly ShadedConsider your colors carefully taking account of: 14. Readability - text color should clearly stand out Use strong color contrast for text and text background - use darker text on light backgrounds or vice versa15. Consider the preferences of your audience and what fits with your blog's purpose.16. Delineation of Page Elements - Different colored backgrounds text can divide your page up; to draw focus to areas you with to highlight. Take care that colors do not draw attention away from your content. 17. On centered designs keep the background color or image toned down or in harmony with your other background colors. 18. Gradients used carefully can jazz up a page without taking it over; the darker color in line with your heading, the lighter color with your post content. Keep it Search Engine Savvy19. Choose a site title that is relevant either to your topic or identity.20. Consider which keywords to use as metatags, in your title, description, sidebar headings, navigation menus and category lists. 21. Add "alt" (descriptive words) to your site images. My graphical representation of the GooglebotKeep it at Supersonic Speed22. Only include javascripts, widgets and 3rd party coding elements that are absolutely necessary - Work out which social networking and subscription sites that require you to place code on your site are really of use to you and leave the rest off. Jazzy image effects may be visually appealing but can slow a page down considerably. 23.Take care with the amount and size of images used in your template and posts.24.Use image size reducing tools to create graphics that are as small as possible in pixel size while retaining their quality. (Article to follow on this one)25. Consider creating a seperate page for some slower loading elements - eg create a page for your award images. This unclutters your sidebar as well as improving page load time. Have I taken all of these factors in consideration with the design of the blog as it is now? Not completely. This is my aim for my upcoming makeover.Reading ResourcesGeneral:useit.com: Jakob Nielsen's Website has many useful articles. I found his study on how the eye scans a page particularly interesting. F-Shaped Pattern For Reading Web ContentMark Boulton - covers "Design thinking, Web Delivery" Problog Design gives a good coverage of blog design, layout and useability. The Graphic Design Blog Pro Blogger Design ArchivesWeb 2.0 How to Design Guide - gives examples of good design principles combined with the more modern look. Andy Budd's Well Designed CSS Sites Dev Lounge Design ArticlesShowcase sites - good browsing material for ideas. Take care here, although a design may be very visually appealing it may not suit the requirements for a blog. To save me entering a long list here please look at my del.icio.us bookmarks - Sueblimely Showcase LogoTwo - a dedicated Web 2 Showcase of logo designsSearch Engine Watch Specific articlesFive Simple Steps to designing with colour Part 1,- Part 2, - Part 3 by Mark Boulton. This site is a also a wonderful illustration of using a clean simple blog theme and colorful, graphics in posts. The graphics are not only complementary to the subject matter of the posts but give the whole page its design appeal with no distraction from the content. The Value Of White Space by Netmechanic. A good explanation of active and passive white space and how to use it to good effect.Put Your Best Foot Forward: 19 Gorgeous Website FootersThe Right Width for Your Blog by Michael Martin from Pro Blog Design on ProbloggerHow to Create a Search Engine Friendly WebsiteMaking a Site Link Friendly- The turn-ons and turn-offs of a design.45 Excellent Blog Designs from Smashing Pumpkin Magazine.How C.R.A.P is Your Site Design? by Mike Rundle on Vitamin Blog Design sueblimely alexa | | By: Blogging Sueblimely | | |
| | How Important Is Blog Design. | | 2007-08-24 14:13:39 | | Blogs have increased popularity over this past months. Many people have started to create their personal blogs to express their thoughts and feelings. Internet companies have also started their blogs to inform consumers on the latest product news and reviews.Because of this, blogs are also being used as internet marketing media. Before, internet marketing is done by placing banners and links on popular websites, such as news and information sites. Links were also included on newsletters and marketing letters sent to the members of their mailing lists.Many people spend time reading and checking out blogs. People read their friend's and family blogs, their favorite author's blogs, blogs on topics that they are interested in, and blogs on product reviews. With the increasing popularity of blogging, it is even feared that people rely on blogs to get the latest news.While getting news reports from blogs isn't reliable, some people look for product reviews through blogs. In some cases, th | | By: Make moeny Online with a 12 years old Kid | | |
| | I Need Help With My Blog Design | | 2007-05-15 09:29:42 | | The photo in this entry is Mysteriousness. Photographed and edited by me, Lynda Walldez.In recent days in an effort to invest in better blogging, I decided to give my blog a makeover. Because I am investing in promoting my blog, I thought it would be good to make it more appealing and functional. Right now, I am waiting on an opportunity to implement a totally new template. After which my blog will be under construction.The upcoming changes include another sidebar, more expandable sections, a new color scheme, and a new header. All of which will enable a sleeker look, faster loading pages, and a more organized site. Though my only problem is that I cannot do everything on my own. I've tried, and it is actually too complicated for me. Therefore, I would like to employ the help of a skillful and knowledgeable person to help me implement some coding I already have in mind for my blog.I have worked quite hard to get my blog where it is today. My efforts so far have paid off tremendously. | | By: One Day At a Time | | |
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