Are You Bored With Your Blog Design?

Writing by Brick Marketing on Saturday, 16 of February , 2008 at 7:14 am

Blog design is one of those areas that most blogger’s feel dissatisfied with most. Either it is never quite right or you have simply become bored with it. So what can you do to improve your blog design.

You have a wide variety of options. You can:

• hire a specialist to revamp your blog design
• find a template that you can purchase, preferably with exclusive use
• use a common license template, remember, there will probably be others using the same template
• tweak your current template

If you are confident and comfortable playing around with the CSS files on your blog then tweaking your current template can be one of the quickest and easiest ways to update your blog design.  There are many areas that you can modify to get a fresher looking blog. You can:

• change the color scheme
• change the font, font color and/or font size
• for some blog designs you can change the width of the sidebars, content or whole page
• add or remove a sidebar
• change the header image or text style

These are only a few of the areas that you can modify. On one of my other blogs I was able to increase the page width thereby allowing me to increase the width of the sidebars and the content. While I was at it I fully justified the content and increased the font size marginally. I then added a new header image. The end result was a blog that I was much happier.

Part of the reason for being happy with the improvements was due in part to the fact that I had done it. I do urge a word of caution. If you blog design was created by a specialist designer then may be easier and cheaper to get them to do the redesign.

Whichever path you take, it can often be easier to just tweak what you have. Your regular visitors may notice the improvements, but most items like your categories and archives will remain the same (unless you make a major change to them as well). A total change in template may have undesired results when it comes to your regular visitors. Humans like the norm, not change.

Your blog design - if you are bored - tweak it first - you may be surprised at the results.

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