PBD: Bad Layouts
0Bad Layouts Rutledge explains why Sidebar-Content-Sidebar is rarely a good layout choice.
PBD: Milo has Moved
0Milo Has Moved Regular commenter Milo had to change her blog URL quite suddenly. Here’s her new home.
10 Tips For Designing Photoblogs
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Photoblogs have the very best looking content, no doubt about it. Why then can it be so hard to design a photoblog well? Surely the photos alone look good enough?
These 10 tips discuss the theme and design for the blog/gallery, and I’ll be following it up later with a post on how to organize and display the images well.
My 10 Tips for Styling Your Blog
- Use neutral colors. When photographing people, you never know what they will wear so you use a neutral background. The same applies to your design. You need a background color that works with all your photos (e.g. The black background here is perfect against the Northern Light photos of all colors.)
What Is Design Clutter?
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Choosing the parts of your site that a user sees is all about prominence. The more prominent something is, the more often it will be seen.
The problem with prominence is that it’s relative.
Simply giving something a bright background and a bigger font does not make it prominent. It must stand out in comparison with the rest of the design.
For example, the "Come On In. We’re Hiring" badge on Authentic Boredom may be very noticeable, but if you put it on this site, it would just blend in. They need a different method of getting attention.
Design Review: What Sarah Said
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What Sarah Said is a personal blog, belonging to Sarah of course. It was picked out of a CSS gallery to be this week’s review candidate; a high quality candidate!
What Has Been Done Well?
- Color. No-one will argue that the color scheme here isn’t unique. The unusual combination looks great, and works perfectly. Getting this right has instantly made WSS memorable.
6 Ways To Help When Your Blog Is Down
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Downtime is one of those things that we all fear. Some of us have more reason to fear it than others though. A shabby downtime page can lose you valuable traffic.
A few hours ago I decided to check in on a promising new blog I discovered recently. I wanted to see how it was doing and the new content.
That is, until I read the homepage:
"We’ll be back very soon. Please hang in there."
That was the entire contents of the page.
PBD: Be Brave – Break Your Blog
0Be Brave – Break Your Blog! A guest post of mine just went up on ProBlogger.
