Introduction
When designing blogs I noticed there are a few different design elements that I have to take into account every time. I have broken these different design elements into nine different parts. The more attention you give to each part, the better your overall blog design will be.
Header
Content Area
Primary Navigation
Secondary Navigation
Headlines
Comments
Post’s Footer
Footer
Advertisements
1. Header
The header is the first thing most visitors see when they come to your blog and it is also one of the most important. It is important for branding and making your blog stand out apart from the millions of other blogs. It is important that the header be unique so that is is memorable. This is why headers are usually given the most attention to in blog design, even by people who don’t do anything else with their blog design.
Lots of different types of headers work, but no matter what style you design your header in it is important to ma...
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Post Date: 2008-05-08 11:19:26
Even people who have no idea about usability feel the need to write articles about it to tell other people what they themselves should be doing. Usability has become a hot topic and everyone wants a piece of it by writing their own list of guidelines. Most of which end up just repeating what the other guy said. Yet even with the endless amount of articles on usability, there are still a lot of web designs that overlook easy ways to improve the usability of their design.
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Post Date: 2008-04-23 18:46:39
Introduction
A big problem with blogs these days is that a lot of them look pretty much like each other so it is hard to tell them apart and worst, it makes them easy to forget. While the quality of your content will have a large effect on whether or not your material was worth remembering, the blog design will either make or break the user’s experience when they are reading your content.
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Post Date: 2008-04-18 02:35:01
The main reason for this post is because I created a landing page that organizes all the articles I have written for the “Creating a Blog Design from Scratch” Series outside of the blog’s software. I choose to do this, because I don’t believe a page or post listing all the articles would be as effective as creating a custom page. I think it came out really nice and makes it easy to access all the articles for the series on one page to refer to.
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