Improve Your Blog's Appearance

You can always improve your blog. Whether the improvement occurs through an aesthetics overhaul, better content, better search engine rank, or site monetization an upgrade to your blog is always possible. In this blog entry, the spotlight is on your blog's appearance. The appearance and atmosphere of your blog is monumental as it subconciously portrays messages to site visitors. A well polished blog can initially brand you as an authority, knowledgable, cool, professional, or informative. On the opposite end, a poorly put together blog can leave the impression that you are an amateur, disorganized, or unreliable. There are many questions you should contemplate in deciding how to improve your blog's appearance.

Is your blog unattractive or has your design become stale? If you like your blog's atmosphere, are there any improvements that can be made? Chances are a change design of your blog - big or small - could help create a better repoire between your blog and its readers. Run through the checklist below to decide what cosmetic aspects of your blog you need to change.

Are you 100% satisfied with the way your blog looks? Your blog appearance is a reflection of it's strength and magnitude. Whether or not you are satisfied with your website's appearance in comparison to others you have seen speaks volumes as to how much work needs to be done.

Generally, does your template or blog scheme fit the topic of your blog? For example, celeb gossip blogs identify with pink or red colors and larger, attention-grabbing title fonts with information splashed on pages in an impromptu manner. Business blogs normally present well with dark blue or red colors and a conservative font. So first the first item to your checklist should be does my blog scheme fit the topic of my blog? If your scheme does not fit, visit top blogs from various niches and observe their atmosphere. TechCrunch, celebrity-gossip.net, thebignoob.com, and rockytoptalk.com are all very well designed blogs within their niches and subtopics.

Next, now that your blog style fits within its niche, how do the components within the style mesh? Are your font size and spacing easy to read? Are your colors complementary and conducive to locating material? Is your material within squared or rounded containers? These are the next three details you should look at when improving the look of your blog.

Ideally, your body font should be between size 11-13. Too big of font reduces the amount of material available within a given space. Too small of font increases the difficulty of absorbing the content. Your titles should be 25-33% larger as you want them to grab the readers attention, but not to the point the whole blog's focus is drawn to the title of individual blog posts.

The best overall background color scheme for writing is white. Every other color has been attempted - and some with success - but generally white receives the best results as readers see the words better with a dark font contrasted against a white background. As far as overall colors, that is entirely dependent on the scheme implemented. However, blogs are better suited by limiting color usage to two or three main colors.

Spacing is crucial within blogs. Cluttered or tightly packed websites underperform against blogs with easy and smooth transitioning from object to object. Readers like to perceive ample space to go around. A blog with too many things forced into a small spot leaves readers uncomfortable. This is not to say several lines of text or items is an automatic dismissal. Higher volume image, object, and text sites must offset the amount of material with supreme organization and smaller structure so the reader can fluidly locate labels and subsections within the blog.

Ads are also an important topic within presentation. A well designed site integrates ads within the flow of the site. Moreover, the ads become a part of the site and users feel at ease with their presence. Ads intrude upon lesser designed blogs and stand out as independent islands among the blog. While this technique may be more successful at achieving clicks initially, research proves that visitors learn to scroll over familiar ad paths and ignore the ads completely as they familiarize themselves with the blog's structure. Well placed ads do not obstruct readers from material and develop a reputation as a related supplemental offer or option geared towards the reader's interests rather than an intrusive object that serves as the cost of viewing the website.

Remember, blog presentation is a vital contributor to your blog's success. Content is king, but a better blog atmosphere improves your blog's presence and increases marketability as well as reputation.

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