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great post. I just finished a small redesign of my blog and posted an article about one of the coding issues I ran in to. You can check it out over at http://www.kylesteed.com/redesign.

Great article. Thanks.

When I went to do the major redesign of my blog that I’m still slowly scraping together I did have very clear guidelines. Wanted to make it clearer, easier to read, with better and more information in the sidebar, wanted to make it more me and yes, I even made the commenting form something awesome.

But when I look at the new design now I notice that knowing what you want doesn’t do that much good if you’re not a very great designer and can’t make it look as awesome as it looks in your head

Excellent article, it really does pay to focus on your goals when you set out to redesign, harder yet is the ability to remain focused once you have gotten pas the initial stages of the redesign.

And on the topic of overlooking ones own design, I mashed together some quick design changes at one time and hustled along to stay on top of a few client projects. It wasn’t until two weeks later that I noticed I had some pretty serious issues in IE7. That was a mistake I don’t hope to revisit, I try to pay much more attention to my own blogs these days.

Nice work, great article!

When I tweak myself I mostly change small things (and more often cutting and not adding). It’s not really goals, just attempts to make parts of blog easier to use or more informative.

I have some areas that need total remake (eventually) so I’ll try to set “big” goals when I get to that (unlikely to do it myself).

Great post - I would add another useful tip: Keep notes about your next design!

This means bookmarking inspiring website designs and writing down your ideas about what you want to do with your next design - before you actually sit down to make it.

With this technique, by the time you are about to begin a new redesign you’ll have a plethora of ideas & inspiration to finish the project.

AND another tip! (I recently finished my blog redesign too so I’m fresh with ideas) - sometimes the best design ideas come during your sleep. I find that if I goto bed thinking about my new site design my sleepy mind will almost always come up with some really cool ideas (in which case I recommend you get out of bed to write them down less you forget by the morning).

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Have no strategic goals in redesigning. Just pure satisfaction.
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Interesting post here. I think it is hard for most people to take a step back and review their site objectively. For me it is always good to ask others for feedback or suggestions. And if you have some success you can ask your readers.

when redesigning anything i always like to set out clear goals like you have mentioned then look at the available technology from javascript to flash and then see which i really should use and make sure i don’t look at anything else once i started the design process else i can get into way too much and end up confusing the design.

have to disagree with the comment that you should not have any strategic goals when redesigning.

i think its just a matter of knowing what your goals are - if you have none then cool redesign as you see fit. Sadly not all of us are able to just let the inner designer loose all the time without other strategic or commercial consideration

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For sure I’ll put a link on my website. Great work!!!

Great job on Designredux. The theme looks great. I can’t wait to give it a try. By the way, this blog looks excellent too. You have some serious design chops.

Keep up the good work.

Thanks for this, I was thinking about some ways I might redesign my blog. These are great tips, I will keep them in mind. The design of this site is beautiful as well I might add.

Redesigning according to your goals is def. important. If you want to eventually monetize your blog or at least try you will have to consider this into the design.

I think it is important to ask your readers how they feel about your blog redesign.
You see the readers are important for your blog, so theirs opinion might help you to keep your blog successful or not.

Cheers

Great article on blog redesign- and yes, I agree that it’s important to ask your readers how they feel about your blog redesign also. It’s easy enough to change things online, especially with the better blog software like WordPress.

We’re in the middle of a big redesign right now, so thank you again for these tips!

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very informative post and some very good ideas to think about

Design is really a big problem for me. It take a day or more. And the result “not bad”
So, my domain is just sit here before I finish my blog design

Thanks mate for the article just finished redesigning my blog now it looks a lot nice and easier to read

Great post!! Very helpful! Great tips! Thanks for sharing…

Thanks!

That’s a really helpfull article, I keep coming back as I’m working on my business blog at the moment.

Thanks a lot, I’ll put a link on my website. Great!

Thanks a lot, Very useful post for people like me who want to do almost everything themselves. I love designing. I am a big fan of you.

Thanx a lot, Good Luck

I’m going through this process right now, and this article greatly helped me.

Thanks

Great article.. Really very interesting post about web redesign. Thanks for this useful information.

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Think I’ll need to redesign couple of my blogs using your advice. I feel like I’m gonna buy anabolic steroids to improve my blogs now that I know the information from this blog. Thanx

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Thanks for sharing with us. The theme on Designredux looks great. I will give it a try. I am just curious, can good blog design be seo friendly too? Or it doesn’t meter?

I am in the process of redesigning my site and these are some really great tips. Thanks

I’m ispired to redesign my blog. It means your post is really motivating! Thanks

Great article (what about the world domination though?)

This is great article for blog redesign.

nice tops to redesign the old blog.

I started redesigning my blog, before reading your article…such a mistake I started again and of course it is always harder to change it into the way it looks in my head, as some write here, but after a while it worked out. Great article…

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I like to envision what my blog will look like before it ever even goes live. Having many years of experience with SEO and programming, I actually write down on paper how my blog will look and I analyze every little section and see if it makes sense. Obviously as time goes on things change so you constantly have to update your blog but keeping up with the trends is a good thing. Even better is to be ahead of the trend

I am creating a blog and this post has really useful to me. i don’t know much about this field, but I hope to learn soon and easily. Thaks for the lesson!

I would like to create a blog for my site and will try to remember what was said here, as a matter of fact I will print this article. Thnks for the post!

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Great article - I believe looking at as many different blog design ideas as you can would make you see and learn things about blog designs and help you select the best ideas from the many.

After designing a blog we need to evaluate the blog whether it is helping or not to improve our goals and whether blog is getting decent traffic?

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When I’m finish my blog design I would always ask someone for their honest opinion on my blog and what can I add to enhance it. That always work for me.

Very helpful also for beginners! Well written and useful with great tips! Thanks!

Thanks for the great set of tips, I have forwarded this article to a friend who is currently redesigning his blog.

I look at other blog and website designs to shape my ideas for future redesigns. You can find some great ideas, yet you don’t have to copy exactly to find a winning combination.

Thanks for this, I was thinking about some ways I might redesign my blog.

Thanks for the advice, I try and find inspiration from other sites from CSS galleries and then mix and match the best parts from each site and add my own styles to make it unique.

good article, well written and useful. tnx!

nice info there. and as always, starting the blog or redesigning it is only a small part of the work done. keeping it fresh (like the way you do) is another thing altogether.

I must say, all these tips and instructions about website redesgn will help me with my future improvement at my websites. Thanks.

I’m ispired to launch my own blog. Your posts (not only this 1) are really motivating! Thanks

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Great design indeed. Every blogger must follow these steps. Very unique and inspirational indeed. Thanks

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wow thats a great article. For my blog, i still need some help like these tips. Thanks for sharing these steps.

Thanks for the great articles you wrote about designing a blog / website. They are very helpful.

This is not about whether or not your current blog design is helping you achieve your goals, because that is the next step.

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Great set of tips, will bare these in mind.
Thanks.

I like starting with simple creations and moving up with more advanced graphics/flash animations.

Great article! I will use your tips when I design my next blog.

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Awesome post. I like your thought about redesign blogs. Thanks for sharing. Keep writing…

yeah , the makeover is sometimes crucial decision , as important as the first design. i like the post , thank uuuuu for the tips , great job !

“Let your goals guide your design” - nothing more true has ever been said. I think that so many times people start out with the best intentions, but then they see something or do something that looks “cool” yet has nothing to do with their goals and it ends up staying in. It’s so important to do a constant audit against what you were originally trying to achieve.

You have a really nice design. It is interesting how blogs are really popular nowadays.

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That is a lovely article. Redesigning issues do come, every now and then. Your tips on the same will definitely help.

Very interesting article.. Its really a different post that can help to redesign any blog or template or theme…

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I have the great design, tell me more about the World Domination part

Great Post - thx for it - i have also made some Designs and Grafics - keep writing

Great and excellent article to read. Very useful for web designers. Now I am going to redesign my site and then post it in a contest running by grafikguru.com

this is nice article also for beginner like mine.

I agree, especially for beginners, a guide like this is worth a lot. Thanks, great stuff !

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Wonderful article. It really helps to focus on your goals when you set out to redesign. however, the hard part is to remain focussed on it even after you have gone past the initial phases.

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Really nice article - its very helpful!

i have also made some Designs and Grafics by using your blog

Thanks for the list of resources, I would add them in my notes together with this useful blog. Kudos to you!

Yes, that is a verry good article. For my blog, I still need some help like these good tips. Thanks for sharing , regards from Cologne

Thanks for this interesting Topic…

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blog redesign is a great art we can say and now what u said about the design, links and footer and sidebars was grate.

That is a must thing to do all implements in a blog.

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Great point about setting a goal and then following the plan.

in order to redesign the blog, the blog owner should be aware of all the features available in the blog so that he can utilize it to the maximum extent.

A really helpful article, especially for beginners to this field.

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sometimes getting that design we have pictured in our head onto a design and then into code can be a lot harder than we thought at first

Nice article. but be aware of issues. For me the best way is a simple design. Less is more!

Yes, I agree… first start with a plan. Great Post!

I am a firm believer that redesigns are nearly always better than first versions. Not only does an organization’s management better understand what they need because of those things that the first design lacked. Thanks for the tips.

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We are thinking of adding a blog on our site and this was very helpful

Thanks for this, I was thinking about some ways I might redesign my blog. These are great tips, I will keep them in mind. The design of this site is beautiful as well I might add.

Great post - I would add another useful tip: Keep notes about your next design!
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Very useful post, thanks for sharing.

today, wo all use wordpress to design a blog, if one do not have much knowledge about php, how can he do this.

Very good article, we are currently re-doing our website, and our blog. Having flirted with the idea of having a wordpress website, we actually decided against it. I believe it’s a fad that will pass quickly. Although this does not effect your points of good blog redesigns, we will be keeping this in mind. Thanks,

It will work, but only if you have some knowledge about design, for me it is a difficult task.

I have blog in my website. but i am not satisfy with its layout. i was thinking to redesign my blog. your tips will help me to resedign my new blog.

We are just about to redesign one of our client’s blogs and this has come in useful. I will drop a few of these points in an email to them and will point them towards this post. Blog Design is getting closer to full Web Design every day especially as the themes are becoming more and more complex and design rich.

Great post, still applies nowadays. I believe the best way to have an objective view over a website’s design is to ask for users’ feedback on different webmaster forums. They might be the best judges available.

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This info could be useful for starters, also I would recommend to add a list of sites with free themes.

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Thanks teşekkürler.Interesting post here. I think it is hard for most people to take a step back and review their site objectively. For me it is always good to ask others for feedback or suggestions. And if you have some success you can ask your readers.

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Great stuff….Thanks a bunch for sharing….

I think a key to keep your readers close it’s to make constant modifications on your blog so they will always be kept by something new… and I mean something new beside your posts. The redesigning will be a great choice, I wonder how much time it takes if I already have an idea about what I would like to do?

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Excellent article really useful some ideas are very good. Thanks for sharing all the ideas of redesigning blog.

Thanks for sharing all the ideas of redesigning blog.

A great blog redesign starts with a plan…

Thank you for your share, A plan is very important…

You have your point! I like the way you suggesting us. But I prefer to have just a simple design on my blog to make it easier, most readers are only after with the topic, design helps but not much!

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