Comments on: Are you making these common blog layout mistakes?

By: Aelizia

Aelizia — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 04:38:26 +0000

Hi,
Informative points to the bloggers.I appreciate that “Important Stuff in the Footer” concept.Because many not aware of it.Good going!Keep it up.

By: dt

dt — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 11:03:55 +0000

Ah thanks for the clarification! Learnt something new today.

By: J.D.

J.D. — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 01:06:06 +0000

I have a feeling that my blog is violating at least two of those design concepts.

It’s fluid, and there’s not very much white “empty” space. You might want to differentiate between white and empty space, because some blog backgrounds are BLACK.

Just kidding.

Most people are stuck using whatever free theme that they find, without much ability to go into the code and change things to better suit their purposes. I’ve played around a little bit with the CSS on my site, but I wouldn’t want to go crazy and change a bunch of things that undoubtedly would break functionality under the hood.

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By: Tara: Graphic Design Blog

Tara: Graphic Design Blog — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 13:45:47 +0000

Congratulations Randa, to be honest I have never really read Wisdump, but will keep my eyes on it now.

By: Randa Clay

Randa Clay — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 12:26:58 +0000

@dt – that’s the point, they don’t adjust the website width. They can adjust the size of their window, but the width of the web site is fixed. You could make the case for letting the reader decide what width they want the post column to be, but then the reader would have to take the extra step to resize their browser window. I maintain that we should present the content to them at the most readable width and make it easy on them. Your own web site is fixed width except for the very top ad header.

By: dt

dt — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 07:55:57 +0000

Actually I dont get it. If you dont have a fluid layout, then how can your readers adjust the website width?

By: pickel

pickel — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 20:06:19 +0000

It all goes back to the basic rules of newspaper design. Anyone who has a background in journalism will know that in design the rules of following the eye, and white space are key. Start at the top and see where your eye follows…clockwise, right? So, what do you want to put where their eye stops? Your most important information of course.

By: Randa

Randa — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 19:41:28 +0000

@Johno – thanks for your kind comment – glad to hear I’ve got an adequate amount of white space since I’m preaching about it.

@Aaron – yeah, I’m interested to see if I get much vehement disagreement. Already got one commenter who didn’t agree. I just don’t get it. I wonder if it comes down to how reader focused a blog is? Seems like you’d want to do whatever is best for the reader, not whatever you think looks good.

Thanks Shaz and Laura!

By: Laura

Laura — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 19:32:10 +0000

Congratulations! I look forward to reading your pieces.