Importance of Blog Themes and Design
I have been monitoring few money making blogs design for the past 2 weeks. The one that got my attention is about Problogger’s new theme. You might have heard about his new design and I just want to give my opinion about it since we are all learning about this. Below is a screen shot of his new design:
Source: Problogger.net
As you can see from the picture above, problogger new blog theme does not look like a blog a lot anymore. It is much more like a portal for me. Personaly, I am not a big fan of this new design for the reasons below:
- It gives just a little preview of the current post. Readers need to click to read the full story to read the entire post content.
- I don’t know about you but, I would have kept the orange theme color of the original theme since most of the readers are used to it.
- I bet you don’t like the guy’s pic that big?
The thing I like it is because:
- It is an original and unique design! (I hope i can get a designer to built one for me and for cheap! any takers?)
- Very well structured and the ads design are properly placed on the right side.
- Easy on the eyes.(I must admit..)
Some articles about blogs design:
Have you heard about the blogger that paid JohnChow USD400 to get his blog reviewed and ends up being a laughing stock because of his poor blog design? You can read the JC review here, the last word I heard is he got a new theme going and looks like learning the mistakes he have made(i don’t think you need to pay $400 to learn that Black background with white font is bad!)
Oh ya, If you want free wordpress theme just like Johnchow’s, click here.
Happy choosing your theme!
Cheers
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August 25th, 2007 at 11:36 am
At first sight, i felt i like the previous design. Then I thought I don’t like the current design because I;m too used with the old one. Maybe we should give some time and see maybe we will eventually like it.
September 5th, 2007 at 9:30 am
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