Your blog’s design should scream success, but without detracting from your great content. A good design is almost invisible — blending perfectly with your articles. Here are a few simple things you can do to showcase content and encourage visitors to read further.
1. Display Key Content Above The Fold
The term “above the fold” refers to [...]
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Design
Recently I was cleaning up some of my posts on TBODC and I noticed one of my plain bland-looking blockquotes. Naturally, being a designer, I had to do something about this. The blockquote is a highly underrated character on a blog or website. Usually it just sits there looking bored or like a clone of [...]
Tired of boring text links? Need to save space in your sidebar? Then consider an attractive image with more than one hyperlink spot. You’ve seen corporate sites with maps where you pick a city or state for local information. Another example is a painting of prominent 18th century figures seated around a table. Click each [...]
Two weeks ago, we changed our design. Now we are using Thesis framework.
On that post, some readers said that they were planning to buy Thesis. When we decided to buy Thesis, we read some reviews and guess what? None of them was completely true!
You will find many articles out there promoting Thesis. Guess what? They [...]
Most of us don’t think much about our current blog design unless someone complains or we get tired of the theme. We go merrily along creating great content.
But not taking stock of existing design flaws is like skipping your annual doctor visit or car inspection – just waiting for something to go wrong. Blog readers [...]
I’m sure you see some interesting font styling on other blogs and wonder just how they managed those touches. You sigh and think that if you could only monetize your blog, you could hire a designer! Well, you don’t have to go that far to create some of that eye candy. In this post you’ll learn about [...]
Who does not want a blog that encourages readers to stay for a while, subscribe, click or share? Everyone wants it, but not everyone is getting it!
What’s the problem?
The problem is that we are not being what we are, Humans! We think like bots, designers and what-not, but not like normal human beings! (If you’re [...]
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Do Not Give Your Readers a Choice, Place Exit Points Intelligently!
by Mr. I · 14 comments
in Design, Promotion
Do you get good traffic but very few comments? Do you get very few submissions to social sites? If you are not converting your readers well, then this post is for you!
As a blogger, I have always been concerned about Exit Points. Exit points are the choices you give your readers to leave your blog. [...]