It’s about time we clean up the blogosphere, it doesn’t have to be this ugly, and not everyone needs to hire me or my likes to get a pretty blog. There’s a lot you can do yourself, and most of it is related to your content.
Take a look at your average listing of posts, usually your front page but it could also be a category page or an archive. Post after post after post after post. Boring? Might be. Long? In most cases, yes. Too long? Yep, I’d say so.
I believe in using read more functionality, in other words, in just displaying some of the content (if the post is a semi-long or long one) in post listings. If you display a 20 paragraphs long post after a 30 paragraphs long post, but before a 50 paragraphs long post, then you have a very ugly page.
By using read more functionality, available in any good blogging software, you can show as much content as you like in your listings, and it shouldn’t be too much.
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Let’s talk about footers, those big things that was so popular - and still is I guess - a while ago.
There are three kinds of footers:
- The non-existant, which basically just adds a copyright phrase, design credit, or something similar.
- The sidebar disguised as a footer, a common solution for one-column themes. These footers put content that usually ends up in the sidebar, in the footer instead, like categories, latest comments, and so on.
- The gigantic footer, with lots of extra stuff, like syndicated RSS feeds, widget overload (I won’t say the footer’s dead yet though), ads, services, badabing-badabom.
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I’m a bit under the weather still, so I’ll keep it short today, if I’m able. I never know when I start writing a post…
Among other things, I’m a blogger, doing freelance gigs obviously, since you can catch my madness in post form here, as well as on Devlounge and The Blog Herald, not counting my own projects.
Does it hurt my personal blogger brand that you can read me on so many places?
What I mean is, can blogging on several blog be a bad for your personal brand as a blogger, since you’re stretching yourself (perhaps thin) over so many blogs and actual blog brands? I don’t know, maybe if you’re all over the place, but not for a handful of blogs. more
