Use the Fold To Sell Your Blog on the First Impression
The ‘fold,’ is defined as the area of the page which a user can see without scrolling down. There is a lot of controversy online about the existence of the fold (Its size differs greatly depending on...
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Make Sense of Your Blog With Proximity
Each page on a blog holds a number of different sections. Each section has a distinct purpose, for example; the title gives a name, and the blogroll gives a list of links. For all of these goals to be...
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Why I’m Using a 3 Column Layout
There are a few seemingly perpetual debates in web design. 800×600 vs 1024×768. Fixed vs fluid. Content on the right or left. The choice of using a 2 column layout or a 3 column one is another of...
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Prioritize Your Blog Into 5 Distinct Groups
In the first post, What Is Design Clutter?, we talked about how clutter is caused by too many objects competing for attention. The problem for any blogger is choosing which objects should get attention...
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Sidebar Redesign: My Thought Process
In the past few days, I redesigned my sidebar. It doesn’t sound like much, does it? But looking back, that one change has had quite an impact on the overall look. In blogs in particular, the sidebar is...
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5 Ways to Get More Space On the Page
As bloggers, we all want to put as much content as we can on the page, but make it look like as little as we can. It’s an interesting paradox, which doesn’t always have an answer. In certain...
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Should a Sidebar Go On the Left or Right?
Image by Apesara Whether you use a 3 column layout or a 2 column layout, you have to choose which side you want your content on, and which side you want your sidebar on. Left or right? Which is best?...
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7 Essential Elements of Blog Design
The blogosphere continues to expand almost on a daily basis, and as a web designer we often inform clients of the numerous benefits of attaching a blog to their site. It is always a great way to...
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Get More From Your Site’s Visual Acreage
One of the most important, and sometimes most difficult, parts of web design is deciding what to do with the space that is given you. Usually, you have around 960 pixels in width and an indefinite...
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