Make Your Blog Stand Out: Blog Design Made Easy – Part I

Each site needs to have a blog. Blogs are a great way to make sure that you have great content that is fresh, just the way search engines love it. Plus it is also a great way to discuss the topics you are interested in and have your readers and customers join in.

Blog design is just one of the things that you need to consider when putting up the blog, and is probably one of the most important ones. Your blog design can help your blog succeed, keep people coming back and enhance your content.

This series would give you the basics of having a great blog design that your readers will remember and love.

The Basics of Outstanding Blog Design

1. Aim for utmost readability.

When looking at readability, there are certain elements that you should tweak to make sure your readers do not have a horrible time trying to read your blog posts:

• Make sure that your background and text colors have sufficient contrast.
• Insert a full line break after every paragraph to make longer paragraphs easier to read.
• Use fonts that are easy to read. Ornate fonts tend to be difficult on the eyes. Plus, you may want to use a readable font size at 12 pixels to 14 pixels.

2. Spotlight your content.

Make sure that you do not distract your readers’ attention from the content. Design your blog to make sure that you do not have a background image on your blog text. Also, do not insert ads within your blog posts.

3. Make your header memorable.

Your header is one of the first things that your readers see, so make sure you make it memorable.

The BeQRious site takes pride in its header that gives you an idea of what we do and what we are, the sections of our site that you could visit and learn from, as well as how to contact us. Our readers comment that they can forget about the blog post they’ve read that day but not the header.