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Tips for Designing Unique and Attractive Blog Posts. Designers have began to inject increasing levels of creativity into their blog posts and articles, throwing out the traditional and generic style of blog posts in favour of a much more attractive layout that’s themed specifically to the content. Let’s take a look at some of the best examples, and see what makes them work so well. In his fantastic article ‘The Death of the Boring Blog Post‘, Paddy Donnelly sums up this method of fusing together a blog post with the style and design of a traditional magazine article and coins the name, ‘Blogazine’. Be sure to check it out for a great introduction, and to hear from some of the pioneers of this style of blogging. Examples of the best Scrap the traditional website layout We’re all used to blog themes with the traditional two-column content and sidebar layout.

Take inspiration from print design For decades, designers working in print have used the core design principles to create balanced layouts in magazines and posters. A grid is your friend. 5 Simple Ways to Open Your Blog Post With a Bang. Writing Effective, Attention-Getting Headlines and Titles on Your Blog. If it bleeds, it leads. Punchy. Catchy. Attention-getting. Insightful. Writing a title for your articles or posts is part of the marketing campaign of your blog. A blog uses titles in many different ways, from within the web page design and browser, to how titles are used on search engines and link lists.

In this two part series on headlines and titles, a kind of “more than you could ever want to know about creating and writing titles and headlines”, I’m going to offer tips, information, and resources to help you learn more about how to write effective, attention-getting headlines and titles on your blog, and then introduce you to how blogs use titles and headlines in a blog’s structure and presentation. In this first part, we’ll examine how to write an effective, attention-getting headline or title for your blog. Writing Effective Titles and Headlines Writing a blog post or article can be hard work. There are two goals to writing an effective title. It’s that simple, and that difficult. Best Blog Layout Tips & Design {5 blog tips. Good blog layout and design is very important. It's easier than you think to have a beautiful blog with a great blog layout.

So here are 5 blog tips so you can have the best blog layout in the blogosphere! It's nice to look at, and clean, and easy to navigate, and leads to people clicking around on a site, which is the ultimate goal. But bad blog design? It should be unique and give people an idea of what your blog is about. The "rules" say that a header should be no more than 250 pixels tall, but you do have wiggle room on that. 3. 4. 5. Great blog design isn't rocket science-- you know what you love to see in a blog, just give people that on yours! Blogger Tutorial - How to Start Blogging with Blogger.