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25th

Blog Design Basics: Why Your Blog Design Sucks

Files under Blog Design | Posted by Max Miroff

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The Perfect Blog Design

Sure, everyone loves some good ol’ great content, but who cares about that when you’ve got a fancy picture of a car (shiny!) as your blog header? It’s critical to have great blog design because it’s arguably the biggest factor in whether a reader stays or goes.

BENEFITS OF GREAT BLOG DESIGN
Is your content crap? Add some pictures of fake checks from Google or sports cars and people will immediately love you (see: John Chow). Oh, and I guess it’s more pleasing to the eye. Anyway. Here are some tips I’ve garnered from top-tier blogs that you should combine in order to create a blogging design hybrid that will be so good readers eyes will literally bleed.

  1. Include pictures of desirable things. Cars, money, checks are the top contesters here. Try combining them all (perhaps a car made out of Franklins filled with $1000 Google checks? Just sayin’…
  2. Add lots of 125×125 ad buttons. When people see 125×125 ad buttons, they know that your blog is serious business. Because 125×125 is like that.
  3. Add lots of other ads. All of those big-name bloggers have plenty of ads. So should you.
  4. Get a custom logo. Your custom logo should combine the things mentioned in step #1. When John Cow came out with its cowcar logo, it asserted its authority over all things cowcar-ish.
  5. Publish RSS feeder counts. Even if your blog only has one subscriber (you, in an attempt to inflate your numbers), display it. If you have to, edit it and add some big number. Trust me, no one will notice that your tiny 10-visitor-per-day blog has 12,000 subscribers.

Does your blog have any of that? Hm?

That’s what I thought. Now get your Photoshop out and put it to good use.

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2 Responses to “Blog Design Basics: Why Your Blog Design Sucks”

  1. By BradBlogging.com - Increase Website Traffic With Easy To Follow Steps on Feb 2, 2008 | Reply

    Not to be critical, But Your sidebar still comes after your comment form. And theres a 404 on the picture.

    Great post!

  2. By One Year Millionaire on May 2, 2008 | Reply

    Come to think of it… I think I may want to purchase a cow-car sooner or later… I wonder when John Cow will post up the real pictures of the cow car instead of the illustration… :) Another good post!

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