Planning A Blog Re-Design? Read This First

Lots of bloggers like to launch their blog into a the new academic year with a re-design. Three new blog designs I’ve observed recently are John Cow, Blog Storm and Tech Crunch. If you are planning a blog redesign I suggest visiting the links I posted above and observing the comments readers made about the new designs, in order to get a better idea of what your readers will be looking for.

Reading Material About Blog Designs

Note that the comments readers made on these posts are often even more usual than what the original author wrote!

• Blog Design Is Impossible from Blog Storm.
• Why Your Blog Can Use a Unique Theme published on Tyler Cruz
• Evaluating the Effectiveness of Your Blog Theme by VandelayDesign
• 12 remarkable Blogger designs from Blogging Tips.

A main point to take away is that with a new design comes new opinions and not everyone will like the design. Sometimes even if a new design is more user friendly than before, the fact that it is different means regular readers can find themselves wanting the old design back, for the sake of familiarity.

A new design takes time getting used to and to truly measure the success of a new design traffic levels and traffic conversion levels need to be monitored over at least 2 weeks, during and after that time further tweaks can be made to the blog design.

If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!