Spring Clean Your Blog!
About this time last year, I suggested we all "Pimp" our blogs.
Pimp is the kind of phrase guaranteed to make my mother spin in her grave and borrowed from my "may-as-well-be son-in-law", Dan, who is mad about cars. Pimp means to kit out, glam up or decorate your car the way you really want it to look. Of course the term "pimp" has other less salubrious connotations which we will steadfastly ignore for the purposes of this post.
For those of us in the southern hemisphere, the 1st of September means spring has sprung. The jasmine is out in my backyard and the weather is warmer. The doona hasn't come off the bed yet but it won't be long before Summer is here.
This week, I borrowed a book from my local library by Robin Houghton called The Golden Rules of Blogging: The Do's and Don'ts every Blogger Needs to Know.
I reviewed it on goodreads as follows:
This is a beautifully designed little book. Short and easy to read, it presents 28 rules of blogging with expert commentary for and against following the rules. There are cute little thermometers which indicate the risk (low to high) of not following each rule. A handy diagnostic tool for performing a checkup on the health of your blog.
My blog's design has been bugging me for a while. I love the clean look of other people's blogs. It's all about white space isn't it? One of the tips in the book was to avoid light text on dark background. Guess what my blog was? Light text on a dark background. But I was so in love with my tree template. It was so hard to let it go. But I've buried it. It's gone to the great blog design graveyard in cyber-space.
What do you think makes for a great blog? Are you going to spring clean your blog this week?
Pimp is the kind of phrase guaranteed to make my mother spin in her grave and borrowed from my "may-as-well-be son-in-law", Dan, who is mad about cars. Pimp means to kit out, glam up or decorate your car the way you really want it to look. Of course the term "pimp" has other less salubrious connotations which we will steadfastly ignore for the purposes of this post.
For those of us in the southern hemisphere, the 1st of September means spring has sprung. The jasmine is out in my backyard and the weather is warmer. The doona hasn't come off the bed yet but it won't be long before Summer is here.
This week, I borrowed a book from my local library by Robin Houghton called The Golden Rules of Blogging: The Do's and Don'ts every Blogger Needs to Know.
I reviewed it on goodreads as follows:
This is a beautifully designed little book. Short and easy to read, it presents 28 rules of blogging with expert commentary for and against following the rules. There are cute little thermometers which indicate the risk (low to high) of not following each rule. A handy diagnostic tool for performing a checkup on the health of your blog.
My blog's design has been bugging me for a while. I love the clean look of other people's blogs. It's all about white space isn't it? One of the tips in the book was to avoid light text on dark background. Guess what my blog was? Light text on a dark background. But I was so in love with my tree template. It was so hard to let it go. But I've buried it. It's gone to the great blog design graveyard in cyber-space.
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What do you think makes for a great blog? Are you going to spring clean your blog this week?
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