3 Simple-Yet-Effective Ways to Make Your Blog Looks More Attractive !

A lot of content, mine included, talks about how to get more traffic, get more comments, or make more money, and though that’s great information, today I’d like to take a break by talking about something I feel is just as important, but doesn’t get the attention it deserves -

Blog Design !

When the Internet first started, it was OK to build ugly websites; that’s all there was. But now that the tools have improved and design is easier than ever before, the look of your website says more than it ever has. In fact, most people simply won’t tolerate…

A Bad Looking Website !

So for the purposes of this post, let’s assume that your blog is at least borderline ugly, if not horrifyingly disgusting. Heck, it’s possible that your blog looks bad and you don’t even realize it.

Let’s Fix it
Right now !

1.  The Header is Your First Impression

Like it or not, people will judge your website within seconds of landing there. And as you can probably guess, the first thing that they see is the header. An ugly header doesn’t just say “get out of here,” it also screams unprofessional and even lazy. A simple header with a poor font selection isn’t good enough. I recommend paying a logo designer to build a nice looking header logo and accompanying graphic, but if you can’t afford that…

At Least Make the Effort to
Make it Look Nice !

If you don’t have a logo, then don’t use a bad one. Simply minimize the header space to let the rest of the content move up. If you do have a nice logo, then build the header to match, and make it look sharp. Use no more space than you need to, and only include pieces that look nice.

Everything Else
Can Be Thrown Away !

2.  Image Alignment and Borders

Look, nothing says amateur more than an image that isn’t properly aligned in a blog post. Worse yet, don’t be that guy (or gal) that doesn’t understand how to properly resize images and ends up with skewed or distorted photos and graphics.

This is a No-Go !

Another thing you can do for an instant fix is to add an automatic border to your post images. To do this, simply find your style.css file (or equivalent) and type in the following:

img {border:2px solid #FFF;}

This will add a white, 2 pixel border around your images, which will make them look like they belong. If you want to change the color, simply adjust the “#FFF” to another. If you want black, it’s #000, grey: #CCC; etc.

These Simple Tweaks
Make a Huge Difference !

3.  Font Size and Color

For some reason, many WordPress themes think to hard, and make text that is either too small or too light. I generally like to have a font size of at least 14 pixels, and a font color that is a sharp contrast from the page background.  Check your stylesheet (or have a CSS guru help) to look for your font size and color and make sure that the text is legible. If it’s too small, then make it bigger; too light, then…

Make it Darker !

These might be difficult, or even expensive changes, depending on how good you are with CSS and Photoshop, but if you want to be considered a professional blogger, then your blog should resemble that.

Stay Good in Design,

The Bad Blogger

Also Known As “The Design Blogger”

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