In the real world, we see peoples for their appearance. It’s same in cyberspace, visitor first look at the blog of design. That’s why design is very vital for a blog.
If we have good blog design, visitor will feel comfort, and probably will visit regularly to our blog. But if our blog have ugly looks, visitor will leave our blog. At least he’s been to our blog just a few minutes, even seconds. Here are some aspects that make the design a blog better.
SIMPLE, MINIMALIST
A blog should have a simple design and minimalist. Minimalist here does not mean sober, white without any decoration. Minimalists’ means not a lot of festive decorations do not focus too much on the details. The use of the widget is not too crowded. Suffice it to list of posts, Shout box, and hit counters. A simple blog design not only makes your blog visitors are not tired of seeing us, but also speed up loading the blog. Most visitors do not want to wait for long. Thus it should be kept simple blog design for easy viewing and faster loading.
COLOR SELECTION
Most people choose black or white color to be used as the background color. Actually more people comfortable reading the blog with white than black. White background makes the blog seem more spacious. The white color is also more perfect paired with a variety of colors. But black is also an advantage. That does not make tired eyes. In the physical sciences, the color black will absorb all the rays. In contrast to the white color that reflects all the rays of light and heat so memorable. Please do not forget to consider the font color. A good font color is a color that contrasts with the background color. For example if your background color white, you can choose black or dark blue color for the font color. For black background, you may choose white or yellow font color.
SIDEBAR IN RIGHT OR LEFT?
Actually there is nothing wrong if we choose right or left sidebar. After all, everything looks good. But I tend to prefer the sidebar on the right. Why? Because people read our article from left to right. That means the likelihood people will see the widget after reading the article. Try if mounted on the left, people will concentrate more into our widget before reading our article. Visitors only came to see our widget regardless of what we write.
2 OR 3 COLOUMN?
Most bloggers using 3 COLOUMN. Maybe they think with 3 coloumn, they can take advantage of the blog design as much as possible. When we decided to use 2 coloumn 3 coloumn or should we consider our goal to build a blog. If our aim is mild, for example just want to write our thoughts, and widgets are also not too much, then the second coloumn is the right choice. If our goal is to monetize or other goals are more severe, then 3 coloumn more is needed to accommodate ads as well as a lot of menus.
POSITION ADVERTISEMENT
Place ad in a position that is easy to see, for example, under the header, in the sidebar, at the very bottom of the blog, and on the sidelines of the post. For the size, under the header better use leaderboard size, to the sidebar using SkyCrapper size if it is still a lot of empty space, for at the bottom can use the large size of the leaderboard or rectangle. For posting on the sidelines of a greater variety of sizes, such as banner size, large rectangle, or can also use the link banner-sized units.