Blog Design- Little things matter a lot
Tuesday, November 20, 2007
You may question how many readers actually bother about where links are placed and what kind of navigation do you have in your blog. What gets noticed is not the presence but the lack of it.
Reduce
Though the drawback is with very large or very small resolutions, the design can become very haphazard. The length of line will either become too long or all the content will be squashed into a very small space.
The best way to deal with this will be to set the maximum and minimum length of the content.
Links- First of all, links should always look like links. Don’t make it hard for your readers to find out where to click. This is the least thing they will want to put their brains into.
Now to answer should the links be opening in new windows or not- people have different opinions about it. To do or not to do depends your individual thinking.
The right view-
Users browsing your content will right click and make the link open in a new tab(as I like it) or a new window. Forcing multiple windows won’t make your blog sticky. Rather try to get people back to your blog by making the content more engaging and hard to live without.
The Left View-
Keeping Blog readers on your page and not loosing them to an external link can be one of them. Sometimes its hard for readers to remember how they got to particular webpage, and have to click the BACK button a zillion times to find the navigational source, they would just ignore and move ahead.
It is also distracting for your reader to navigate away in the middle of the article.
As a browser I find it too hard to manage a hundred windows all at one time when I am trying to do a five hundred things at one time. So I prefer links opening in tabs.
Rest can be left on users choice of opening the links as per their requirement.
I would love to listen to your point here.
Enjoy Blogging,
Divya
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8 Comments:
I want to contact you...but could not find any contact information on your blog....
keep it up!
ammu.
I have been reading your blogs for a while. I can say that you have managed your blog pretty well. No clutter in the sidebar.
But one thing I would like to say is : is it really OK to provide your email id and cell no. upfront the way your have put. Are you not prone to scam emails and un-necessary calls.
I prefer putting emails in 'yourname [dot] somthing [at] provider [dot] com'. Just for reducing the unwanted clutter in my mail box.
Visit my blog, I would love to hear any suggestion you might have for me. I am sure you will definitely have something to improve my blog.
http://anuragbansal.blogspot.com
Thanks
Keep up the good work.
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