Archive for Blog Design

Written on May 7th, 2008 at 01:05 am by Daniel Scocco

How Do I Get a Professionally Designed Blog?

Blog Design 56 comments

In this post Daniel Scocco answers a question from Reader Mar Joseph who asks:
I would like to have my site professionally designed as my lack of code knowledge is really holding me back. What are the best avenues to find designers?
First of all let’s identify the goal behind this question: to have a professional […]

Written on April 27th, 2008 at 03:04 pm by Darren Rowse

Should I Have a BlogRoll on my Blog

Blog Design 60 comments

@SalesBlogcast asks - “What’s the difference between haveing “links” vs. a “blog roll?” Benefits? Chosing wisely?”
Ultimately the word ‘blogroll’ is just a different term used to describe a list of links, usually on the sidebar of a blog. It’s just a different label for the list of links I guess.
When I first started blogging […]

Written on April 26th, 2008 at 12:04 am by Darren Rowse

Blog Design - Does it Matter?

Blog Design 58 comments

@mattpacker asks - how important is the design of your blog and how hard a decision do you think it would be to develop a new theme for it?

There will probably be a little debate over this one in the comments on this post because every time I see someone write about design there are […]

Written on March 8th, 2008 at 12:03 am by Skellie

Top 5 Ways to Improve Your Blog’s Usability

Blog Design, Featured Posts 46 comments

Skellie is a regular writer for ProBlogger. Check out her new blog Anywired if you’re interested in earning an income online.
Usability.
Yaaawn, right?
Think of it like this: the art of making it as easy as possible for your blog’s visitors to do exactly what you want them to do.
That simple, super-effective tip on putting your feed […]

Written on February 11th, 2008 at 12:02 pm by Darren Rowse

Blog Design Competition Winners

Blog Design 28 comments

Last week I ran a little competition here at ProBlogger asking readers to nominate their favorite blog designs to put them in the running to win one of five copies of Web Design for ROI: Turning Browsers into Buyers & Prospects into Leads.

This has been one of my favorite competitions to watch because the 113 […]

Written on February 6th, 2008 at 06:02 am by Darren Rowse

Win a Copy of Web Design for ROI

Blog Design 117 comments

One of the books that I’ve been enjoying lately is Web Design for ROI: Turning Browsers into Buyers & Prospects into Leads. It might surprise regular readers who know that I’m a self confessed web design dummy to know that I’ve been reading (and enjoying) a book about this topic - but I was […]

Written on January 19th, 2008 at 12:01 am by Darren Rowse

10 Remarkable (and Free) Wordpress Themes

Blog Design 66 comments

The following post on great free WordPress Templates was written by Reese Spykerman from Design by Reese.
A search for free Wordpress themes yields thousands of results, some dull or cluttered, some utilitarian, and many inspiring and beautiful. Numerous other well-designed Wordpress themes are available to you, but these are 10 that stand out to me […]

Written on January 8th, 2008 at 02:01 pm by Darren Rowse

How I Redesigned My Blog [by Ben Yoskovitz]

Blog Design 45 comments

One blogger that I read regularly and have come to respect over the last few years is Benjamin Yoskovitz from Instigator Blog. Yesterday Ben and I were chatting on skype and he mentioned that today he was launching a new design on his blog. I liked what I saw of the new design and said […]

Written on January 6th, 2008 at 12:01 am by Darren Rowse

Who Designed Your Blog? [POLL RESULTS]

Blog Design 38 comments

Over the last couple of weeks I ran a poll here at ProBlogger which asked readers who designed their blogs.

1828 readers responded in total (thanks everyone).

DIY - The results showed that 57% of you either considerably tweaked a free template (35%) or designed your blog from scratch yourself (22%).

Free Templates - Another 32% of you […]

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