Simplex Design blog : 7 essential elements to sketch your blog look great

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7 essential elements to sketch your blog look great Posted: 17 Oct 2012 05:23 PM PDT A blog is a  website that contains valuable information published on the World Wide Web shared among people at large. No matter how rich the content of your blog is, a unique blog design plays a vital role in making your blog successful. The internet is filled with ready to install themes but for bloggers who want make their blog a killer, read on to find out how you can design your blog from scratch. Preparing for the blog design The first step towards designing a blog is to have a clear idea as to what you are looking for. This is important for you or for your blog designer to save time and money on designing your blog. The choice of colors As you are striving towards getting more visitors to your blog, choose colors that many people like so that they will tend to stick around for a long time and also bring in their friends to your blog.  Every color has a meaning of its own and the choice of colors can convey a lot to your visitors. Usually bright colors like red and orange grab the attention of the visitors. Website layout Blog designing is based upon the layout of your blog website. Earlier, blog websites had just the header and footer, main page for content and a sidebar. Nowadays blogs have two sidebars on the right and left side of the main content. You must have noted archive, subscriptions by email on the side bar. Let us look at the importance of each of the layout components. Header Header is the top portion of your blog web page that your visitors first see when landing on your blog. The header is made up of the title, slogan, logo and navigation menu. Apart from these the search bar and icons to connect with social networking websites also finds a place on the header. The search functionality helps your visitors to perform a search on your blog and find relevant information. Sidebar You can opt to have two side bars left and right side of your main content or one of them. These side bars give you an opportunity to showcase advertisements or  add a call to action button like Buy now! Offers on e-books, prompting your visitors to click and view the ad. Today there are so many multimedia professionals who specialize in delivering Ad banner design services through the internet. If you browse through your favorite blogs, you will find network sharing functions on the left and blog archive, search function, tags, categories towards the right on many of them. Center web page The center part is where your blog content appears. Design your center part in a nice way so that visitors can enjoy reading your articles. You should be able to accommodate blogger comment form that allows other bloggers to comment on the posts and display them with replies added to those comments. Also include social media buttons and links to related posts. Social media buttons enable people to share your article posts on popular social networking and bookmarking websites. Footer Footer is the last section of the blog page. This section is the same for almost all web pages which consists links like privacy policy, terms and conditions and contact us. A good blogging platform compliments an attractive blog design. Blogging platform like Wordpress support theme installation and has over a thousand free templates to offer for its bloggers to instantly add a theme to their blog. Let your blog design code be flexible enough to make changes in case your blog is not able to attract visitors. Ensure that it is search engine friendly and compatible on devices like the iphone, tablet and mobile touch phones. About Guest Blogger  Linda, a passionate blogger also creates attractive banner designs for the web and dns server setup to configure and optimize server.

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