Hello valued readers!,

I thought and even assure most of you are a bloggers and webmasters (whos have blog or website). So at this post I’ll talk about blog design, layout and color. But, this topic is not only for bloggers or webmasters, This is also for whom design lovers.

My experience and my knowledge by reading others design articles, I concluding that the nice blog design must have the following criterion:

• Large layout that compatible with 1024×768 screen resolution. So it make your readers easy navigate and easy to explore your blog content, no need a lot of scrolling down.
• Use three columns. Such as those I mention, make your blog easy navigate and easy to explore. Using three columns is giving you a lot of space to put your content links on the sidebar.
• Don’t use the dark color as your content background color like black or purple. Just imagine, how are you by reading a book with black background color.
• Put your navigation page at the top of page, of course outside/before your blog content. Or you can put it on sidebar, but remember it must on top of sidebar.
• Make the partition to dissociate your links/banners; the ads, offers and promotion, other links/banners, etc. You can make a partition by giving border or larger margin.
• Put your feed rss link/banner on top and make it uppermost; bold text or larger banner.

I enquire Alvin Phang about using three columns, and he answer is; “the sidebar must be on only be on the right side”, see this post: 4 Important Tips To Find A Blog Theme To Make Money Online. But it’s OK if you put your sidebar on left or on left and right. I thought the reason why the sidebar must be on the right side is bacause most of people read from left to right. So when visitors visit a site, the first look is the left-top.

Optionally for the more nice blog design:

• Use gradient background color for the header
• Web 2.0 text style. I assure most of bloggers and webmasters love to see web 2.0 text style

Here’s the .psd file. Download it now!.

Theme Modules

• Header
• Navigation page
• Header 2. Example: http://www.forex1020.com it’s contain top image randomly, rss feed link and social media sites.
• Blog post/content
• Offers and promotion links/banners. Example; Google search, stuff, coupon, etc
• Ads links/banners
• Blog links; category, recent and popular articles, archives, and comments
• Other links/banners. Your blog; mybloglog/blogcatalog readers and community, and others kind of this

Make those modules clear (the sidebar, besides content), so your readers easy to differentiating between the internal and external links, don’t hazy. May be you have found some blog that hazy sidebar, so it hard to navigate and also hard to explore, you confuse where is the category links list, because there’s a lot of links and banners and the links is too close.

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