I’m just kidding, don’t quit. While a great blog design won’t allow you to quit your job right away, it will set a solid foundation for any plans you have with your blog; whether that plan is to outright quit your job in the future, establish yourself as an authority in your area, or to make more money.
What is Blog Design? Blog design is one of the most important elements of a blog, yet it is the most overlooked as well. This can be seen by just taking a casual look at the majority of blogs that are being published today. In a rush to to create quality content, a lot of bloggers have neglected their blog design. While the quality of your content will determine a large part of your success as a blogger, by making the mistake of neglecting your blog design you lose one of your most powerful weapons to your blog’s success.
In one sentence, the art and science of blog design is a careful balance of many different factors that include usability, aesthetics, typography, images, readability, contrast, and color.
Your message does not exist in a vacuum. If it did, then all you have to focus on is your content. But it doesn’t, because messages exists within frames that have a large effect on the message that you send. A frame in psychology, is a point of reference that a person uses to determine what a message means to them.
“In recent studies on web design, they found out that users make an almost instantaneous judgment about a website based on nothing more than the site’s “look and feel.” This judgment happens in about one-twentieth of a second and the initial impression is pretty persistent.” (1)
This is great news if your blog design is up to par, but if it isn’t then that is bad news for you as it is hard to change people’s first impressions. Use this to your advantage and instead of being one of the bloggers with tunnel vision who only focus on content and marketing, you can utilize your blog design in your arsenal to achieve your plans. Whether you are still set on quitting your job, establishing yourself online, or selling something, blog design is not something you can neglect anymore if you plan to compete.
This article kicks off a series of articles that fall under “Blog Design 101″ that will focus on setting the foundations for building a better blog design. Here are some of the following benefits a blog design can do for you:
- get more traffic
- gain more subscribers
- communicate your message better
- sell something
- and do all of it while looking good
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References
1. “The New Rules of Web Design” - Wisniewski, Jeff
55 comments
thanks for the post. i hope to read some more.
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Nice kickoff, I have already read some of the following articles and you did a nice job. I will be watching your blog closely, keep those articles coming.
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Very Interesting Information there about blog design, thanks for the tips!
I have been looking at ways to incorporate a Unique blog design with my SEO site, Thanks a bunch
Excellent, I changed my blog page! Looking forward to learning more…thanks to problogger tweet, I found your link!
P.S is there a comment box design template for blogger? I read your blog but for wordpress only.
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I’ve been designing the majority of my work to strict horizontal grids for some time now. Some of them are simple, and you’d barely no it was there (like the site linked to in my name). Others are more obvious, like my personal site.
It’s one of the key elements of my design process now.
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The designs and the greatness of the blogs will really give you reasons to quit your job.
Todd
Yes..beautiful blog can win the hearts reader and sometimes they can make reader become boring . However, depending on the design blog niche blog itself.
Thanks for the tips… I’m following your advice!
Great… reading them a bit out of order… but this is a very helpful series…
Excellent information. My blogs don’t look like I’ve given them much thought!
I’m just starting a website and blog so this is very valuable information you are supplying!
Great advice… thank you so much. Hope I can follow these simple steps with my own blog!
I appreciate these articles… this will help me!
Great info… I think my biggest problem is finding the time to implement all of these things I’m learning from you… sometimes too much to think about. I just need to pick one thing and concentrate on it.
sometimes too much to think about.Great info…
A great blog is popular… But why is my blog unpopular?
The art and science of blog design is a careful balance of many different factors that include usability, aesthetics, typography, images, readability, contrast, and color.
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