Embellish the Blog

Designing an interesting blog would be the dream of every blogger and it is  a pride for a blogger to have an attractive design for their blog. Sometimes bloggers are too focused on designing the blog to appear attractive. However, some blog end-up contain heavy loading as blogger put too many elements into their blog.  Actually, there are few ways to make a blog interesting yet also meaningful in terms of the content and arrangement.

First, the blogger should identify the audience of the blog. “We need to know the demand of the reader, just like we need to know need and wants of customer” says Matt (2022). Hence, by doing the evaluation, bloggers may create a blog which suitable to the demographic of the reader. As an example, a breast–cancer campaign blogs that mainly targeted woman as the audience may use soft color like pink and purple besides.

(Source : http://www.fhcp.com/blog/how-to-get-involved-in-national-breast-cancer-awareness-month/)

Besides, in way to gives a better idea and information to the audiences, the bloggers may attach some graphic-aid such as video, photo and graph. According to Chernatony (2010), a good presentation is required to make audience interested.  

However, the selection of proper graphic is also an issue. Graphics used in a blog should not contain offensive elements that affect the sensitivity of particular communities. In addition, the graphic attached must relate with the content and purpose of the blog. Clear graphic display gives a quality impact to particular blog. Next, size and arrangement of the graphic also should need to take into account, so that it would not confusing the audience . Lastly, the text itself must be simple and easy to read, by take into account the use font color, style and size. Below are the example of bad quality image and clear high definition images.

(Source : http://www.michaelbud.com/2012/08/the-importance-of-a-gravatar/)

In addition, adding widgets such as Facebook Comments, Popular Posts, Recent Comments, Blog Archive, and Alexa widget to your blog may also embellish the blog. However, you also have to be smart in choosing the widget to be installed on the blog as most widgets may also be reluctant to open in the blog.

(Source :http://www.helperblogger.com)

Reference:

Wilson, M. 2002, "Distributor focus--value-added service: Knowing & giving customers need (and want)", New Equipment Digest, vol. 67, no. 5, pp. 2-32C.