Effective Blog Design Tips and techniques for Beginners

Fresh and wise concept:

Fresh and wise concept is respected by any one in the world. So take this first step more creatively. This first step is a first key to your successful bog.

URL:

Your blog address should be related to your content and don’t contain any spelling mistakes. Try to setup a simple and small URL address relevant to your concept. A correct presentation of your URL address helps in your blog’s Security in further long period.

Title:

You need to setup a title to your blog with necessary keywords to your content with in the Meta tags which in turn helps your blog indexed fast in search engines.

Header:
Header is a picture or Flash animated banner consists of your logo, Title and Simple Description with a theme relevant to your content. Design it effectively which attracts your visitors as a professional look and should be indexed in their mind at first sight only. So, the design should be unique, creative, effective, and attractive and should be related to the main content. Don’t use too much flash animation or gif animations which slows your webpage loading. Design it for standard 800x600 resolutions and it should be centre aligned. Because if header goes left or right in some other resolution which causes visitors confuse your first presentation only. If header is designed in center alignment, It would be in the top centre of your webpage in spite of any resolution which don’t create confusion to your visitors.

Text and Pictures:
Text and pictures are the main information or content presenting your Thoughts or Description of your subject. You should format the text with selective colors which would be highlight and match on the background. The language style you are using should be easily understandable to your targeted visitors. Try to format your text with optimum size which doesn’t affect your visitor’s eye sight. You need to repeat your keywords related to your content which in turn helps in fast indexing in search engines. Pictures comprise buttons, graphs, links or photos related to your content. Pictures should be placed in an effective way which they don’t disturb your text or background. So, they should be edited with some outline, stroke or a frame uniformly. Pictures don’t exceed the post area. You need to see the preview of your post before publishing. Then you can complete the post publishing with necessary corrections.

Author:

After the post completed, you should give some credits to your author of the post content in "About the Author" section and some recent posts written by the specific author back links also.

Tags and Back links:

At the end of posts you need to setup necessary tags and back links which in turn helps in easy navigation and indexing for visitors and Search engines.

Side bar:

Search bar:

You need to set a search bar on the side bar of your blog. Because visitors would search the content they want in your blog or in net without leaving your blog.

Counter:

Counter tells the visitors how much traffic your blog have. With this they suppose to refer your blog what is the helpful information you posted.

Dynamic Feed readers:

You should at least setup one Dynamic Feed reader or news reel relevant to a selected subject. Visitor would get something more fresh information through this news reel without searching another site.

There are number of free feed readers or news reel services available with a simple search and select which satisfies you.

Subscription bar:

You should setup a subscription bar which the visitors subscribe to your blog for updated posts or news letters. It will develop a powerful rapport and long relationship between you and visitors. You can get repeated and helpful visitors for your blog through this subscription bar.

Tag cloud:

Search Engines loves the tags in blog because of their small and single word or phrase description of your posts categorized. So, Search engines easily index the tags in their directory. You need to setup a Tag cloud in your side bar which your visitors easily navigate to the interesting category through Tags.

Blog archive:

Blog archive helps the visitors visit your old and gold posts and they can easily navigate to that period posts which they liked before. So, Blog archive should be setup in your side bar with necessary navigation style.

Blog roll:

You may setup a Blog roll if you are wish to maintain some more blogs or your dearest blogs in turn they have one of the back links from your present blog.

Note:

You may select the blog theme which have two side bars so that you can divide all the above widgets uniformly.

Disclaimer:

A valid disclaimer should be setup in your blog describing your copyrights which helps your blog maintained for a long period.

Profile:

At last you can setup your profile link section called "About me".

This Article is Owned and published by http://kadapaswamy.blogspot.com
Permalink: http://kadapaswamy.blogspot.com/2008/08/effective-blog-design-tips-and.html