Blogging: From Zero to Hero - Blog Design

Your blog’s layout is incredibly important. Your blog can’t flourish unless visitors are able to find more information about you and your blog, read your posts, leave comments, contact you, submit your posts to social media, and do all the other things that help your blog grow.

All of the above actions are negotiated through your layout. If your layout makes the actions easy to complete, they’ll happen more often. If your layout makes these things difficult, they will happen less often. As a result, a flawed layout can hold your blog back.

This tutorial will help you get everything right, from finding or designing the perfect blog theme to writing a powerful ‘About’ page. When we’re done you’ll have all the tools and knowledge required to choose, create or adapt a design that helps your blog meet all its goals – whatever they may be.

Whether you see blogging as a new hobby or a potential business venture, this Blogging: From Zero to Hero series will teach you everything you need to know to create a thriving, popular blog. In this second lesson, you’ll learn about the foundations of great blog design and usability, and how a great design can help your blog meet all your goals.

This tutorial is over 10,000 words and packed full of strategies you can start using today.

Purchase the Other Installments in the Series:

• Blogging: From Zero to Hero – Getting Started
• Blogging: From Zero to Hero – Blog Design and Usability

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Skellie is the manager of Envato’s Tuts+ blog network (http://tutsplus.com), visited over 7 million times every month and nominated for ‘Blog of the Year’ in the 2010 .net Magazine Awards.

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