4 Factors that Influence on Your Blog Layout

Blog’ design can’t be taken for granted. WordPress Experts, Top bloggers and Webmasters preach about using premium templates on all the content management systems – Whether you choose WordPress, Joomla, Drupal or any other platform, the message from most of the professional SEO Experts and Web Geeks would be the same.

Web designers are getting creative, so are customers – that’s why probably we are seeing great web design patterns, styles and formations. Once slider image header was considered the most amazing coding.

But now, imaginations and creativity are mixing together to bring something new every day – Advanced Graphic design tools like Corel Draw and Adobe Photoshop have made things tremendously easy, whereas Editing and Coding softwares like Adobe Dreamweaver, Microsoft’s Expression Web 4.0 and BlueGriffon are helping coders and web programmers to develop sensational websites.

Find out Factors that can influence on your blog’s layout design:

1 – Theme and Template

Blog layout design is something that attracts the visitor after his landing on the blog – Theme or template of the blog is a whole story of approach, graphic design choice and design-taste of the blog owner.

Choose the blog theme (template) which is coherent to the mission, strategy and audience of the blog, because theme will be the first and basic thing to set the image of the blog in readers mind. While pursuing the best design, some changes, additions, editing and tweaks in the coding might be necessary in few themes to make it better or according to the requirement.  – Be ready to do such a dare.

2 – Color Combination

Colors talk. It’s the taste of your personality and mind. Some experts on psychology give color so much importance for identifying the personality traits and behavioral implications of the subject (person). When it comes to the colors on a website or blog design, it should be selected according to the audience type.

A color combination of a music and entertain web portal should be shinny, bright and lively, whereas color combination for a site for charity must be decent, sophisticated and light. It’s a psychology.

3 – Menus and Snippets

Menu bars, buttons and snippets are always there on the blogs to divide the parts of the layout and show the clarity among the divisions of the parts. Menu items are most important elements – Menu for pages and categories are used to categorize and display the content types of the blog for readership.

4 – Content Display Style

Blog Post style, writing style, fonts, color of fonts, title font, sidebar standing, comments section, author bio and other areas near the blog post content play a vital role in setting the blog post content for readership. If any of the above mentioned part of the post goes wrong, a reader might not be able to read the content or see the whole blog layout.

Great tip for Design: While designing your WordPress theme or website layout, make sure you see your design with content inside – So that you get to see how it looks with the data and content in it, otherwise, you won’t be able to see what many customers will see after start using it.