In my last article I told you about 70 tips to get traffic to your blog, so here is another “70 list” tips that will help you to make your blog design better. The points will be not be that elaborated but I’ll cover all the points in detail in my future articles. Lets start :
- Choose white colored background template
- Place search box at the top in navigation bar
- Have a good blog typography (I recommend Verdana fonts)
- Have an attractive logo/banner
- Always use different color or hyperlinks
- Template should be two or three column
- Before applying the template make sure you cross check it in different browsers
- You must display post author, category, tags and date before or after the post
- Use percent instead of pixels
- Use a good color scheme (you can take help from ColorCombos)
- Compress CSS code, use CSS Compress plugin to compress CSS code
- Always have three or four column footer
- Use paging
- Use small size graphics
- Avoid using Flash
- Do not add music
- Do not add unnecessary badges
- Avoid marquee tag (looks very unprofessional)
- Avoid blink tag (again looks very unprofessional)
- Avoid adding Google ads inside content (it will irritate readers)
- Do not overuse Bold tag
- Avoid Gif images (it takes a lot of time too load)
- Keep categories list as short as possible
- Have small blog-roll list
- Separate comments and track-backs
- Make your blog logo clickable
