A Few Do’s & Don’t For When You Create a Blog
Monday, December 3rd, 2007 at
3:03 pm
There are a few things that I have learned through study or by trial and error but they are things that you need to know when you create a blog or you’re building your website.
- don’t make your website or blog blink, flash, dance or jump. I have a hard time reading a website that has things moving around. It’s very distracting and if it has no real purpose it’s just annoying and I will quite often just leave the site and look elsewhere.
- use simple design and easy to read text with pleasant color schemes. I personally have made some pretty ugly websites but after a few days of looking at them I realized what a mess I created and tried to do better. I see so many sites that have really bad color schemes which tend to make my eyes strain to read the screen. Don’t do this unless you have a good reason. Just because you like it doesn’t make it a good reason.
- choose complimentary colors, if you need help try a color scheme program (free ones like www.colorschemer.com/online.html)
- use graphics when necessary to show product, highlight features, or show examples, but don’t over use them
- use the right font sizes for your page, people will skip over things that are too small or too big, use average font counts.
- don’t know html or fancy coding languages? Try a program like XSitePro with WYSIWYG editing for point, click, drag and drop editing. Investing in your website design is a good move, especially if you want to make money online.
- Try using WordPress to create a blog, it can be your main site’s functioning engine. Wordpress is not just for blogs as you can set a static front page with it and easily add content and additional pages.
- choose a shopping cart ahead of time if you need one. I have been using paypal for years because it offers easy to use and manage options.
- make pages easily accessible by readers through navigation, either on a sidebar or top menu, no more than two clicks to get to a location is a pretty standard measurement.
- use a text based menu instead of a graphic based one for better seo results in the future.
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Good principles..I can’t stand a site that has too much going on as well, i.e flashing popups or bad color scheme like you mention…design and layout are very difficult but if done right makes it for a great experience.