October 20, 2011

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The explanation is presented for Donte Whitehill on 19/10/2011 at 4:53 PM under About pages and Rachelle Gressman on 19/10/2011 at 3:33 PM under article What Is The Best eReader Out There? question is about the lay out.

Lay Out of a blog is no different from magazines or newspapers. Blogs are dynamic web, when we post new articles, then the old articles will be pushed down. Although the article is always changing, but overall the blog has the same composition, because changes occur only at the entry of new articles.

Visual basic of a blog is template. Discusses the design of a blog on principle, was to discuss modifications that might be done on a template. Therefore, selecting the template is the crucial early stages.

In a blog, header, sidebar and footer will not change when we do post a new article. In addition to the function header, sidebar and footer, the parts that can be used to form the composition.

If we pick one topic, for example about the ebook reader, the header should be designed to fit and reflect the topic. In addition the header must be original or have never used other bloggers. The best header is designed by himself. Because as the owner and manager of the blog, we know exactly the header in accordance with our wishes.

Based on these considerations, if you choose a template, the template must be "custom header" or can be replaced with a header of our own design. In the template with "cutom header" there is usually a description of the header size in pixels.

An important factor for designing the header is a must to attract attention. The header also need to have character, which when visitors see will have an overview of the contents of the blog. Headers should be able to give the first impression when viewed by visitors.

Next is to design a sidebar using widgets or gadgets. Adjust the color side bar with a header, links to other pages can be displayed in the form of images. Because if we use the widget in accordance with the original, then it will be interesting. The problem is how to use the widget to the design.

If you put an ad in the sidebar, put on a balanced position. Ads that are interesting to add to the beauty of a blog as long as we can put right. But the ads that are too large will damage the appearance of the blog, because it is too dominated the field and not part of the content.

The design on the template with 3 columns is more difficult, but it can produce more interesting blog. In addition, three-column template tend to need more weight, so we have to carefully calculate the amount of load to no more than 100 kb

The composition of the blog as a whole must remain in harmony, in terms of SEO do not fill too many links on the sidebar, because it will add weight blog, so it may take longer to load. This will affect visitors and Googlebot.

Link for remote connections so need to slow loading, or the link is not an important place in the footer. Visitor's attention is more focused into the header. If visitors find interesting articles and continue to read it, then it will never pay attention to the footer.

If you lay out to produce a blog that looks interesting, not quite done once. But it requires action apart pairs several times. Here the difficulty lies not in technical, but lies in the mental attitude that quickly get bored and give up easily.

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