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Blog Design and Layout Ideas

The design and layout of a blog plays a very important role in its success or failure. A well designed blog with best layout can become a great success. Blogging requires very little or no knowledge of HTML or website designing. If you can a paragraph, you can blog. Here I explain all contents of a blog and how to design the layout of a blog. Title of The Blog : Blog title / names tend to be attention-getting and off-beat. If your blog is for business, service, product, I would like to suggest to incorporate important keywords to their business when naming their blog.


Design & Layout : Select a layout that doesn’t require a lot of technical changes or adjustments. The best way to determine the look of your blog is to look at the layout of other blogs and determine what appeals to you. Should you use one of the templates provided or have something custom designed? Do you want your blog archives displayed? Do you want to be the only author or do you want to permit others to make posts, as well? There are many questions you'll be asked in the startup phase about the design and layout of your blog.

Widgets : There are a number of widgets, or add-on programs, that you can incorporate into your blog. Check your blog software's site for more info about what features you'd like add to your blog. At a minimum you'll want to give visitors a couple of ways in which they can receive blog updates through various updaters, or feeder services, as mentioned earlier.

Comments : Set your comments to moderated, which means that you have to approve any comments to your blog before the post goes live. You'll save yourself a great many headaches and time by choosing to moderate the comments. This will protect your blog from spam posts.
Blog content : Content, content, content! That's the secret towriting a good blog. To create content, you must find a subject or subjects that you are passionate about.

If you want to develop a readership for your blog then the topics you write about have to be ones which people will find interesting.
Content should be fresh and written in simple & concise way. Keep your posts and blog entries clear and easy to understand. There’s a time and place for long posts, but if you want to generate comments, keep your posts as short as possible.

You can post content rich articles of interest to your target market, comment on a current event, answer questions from your visitors.
Keep your eyes and ears open for information relevant to your audience. Relevance is important for getting targeted search engine traffic to visit your blog.

Also, before you start writing about a topic, make sure you understand it and that what you’re writing is fact. The quickest way to lose readership, or never gain one at all, is to write blogs that are false or misleading.
Posting frequency : Blogs are just like gardens - they need watering regularly and require some care and attention. For maximum effectiveness, you need to post several times a week to your blog. You should respond to reader's comments - blogs provide a great forum for ongoing discussions. If your blog content is updated frequently, search engines will tend to spider the pages at regular intervals.
Blog Traffic : Now the great question is from where the audience of your blog will come. Work on SEO for more traffic.