Comments on: 7 Quick Tips to Make Your Blog Design More Readable

By: Nathan Brook

Nathan Brook — Thu, 03 Apr 2014 11:35:00 +0000

Thanks for the Informative and Interesting post. good points to keep in mind while doing Blog.

By: Brian Farello

Brian Farello — Sun, 19 Feb 2012 00:33:00 +0000

Thanks for the advice Nicholas. Do you have any other tips? I really appreciate the feedback 🙂

By: Daniel

Daniel — Sat, 18 Feb 2012 10:52:16 +0000

Many thanks for the reply, Nick.

Sounds like the design editor would be a very welcome addition for thesis users. That(The full scale design editor) may turn out to be the catalyst for many Blogger users to decide to jump ship.

By: Joe Elliott

Joe Elliott — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 19:23:11 +0000

No Problem Nicholas, It’s called the F layout, most important things to the left then least important on the right, the only reason I can think of maybe putting left sidebar is if your mailing list subscribe is on it, but to be good to your readers keep it on right. There is a Z layout but isn’t near as common its good for a 1 product website though 🙂

Joe

By: Nicholas Tart

Nicholas Tart — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 06:23:05 +0000

Thanks, Daniel! Yep, Thesis and many other premium themes make it easy to make simple changes like changing font size and background color. I know Chris Pearson, creator of Thesis, is working on building a full-scale design editing function into Thesis that’ll be released later this year. If you buy it, you’ll have unlimited upgrades for life.

By: Daniel

Daniel — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 04:34:50 +0000

A very interesting post, Nick.

I was not to clear about drop caps, so I just went and did a bit of browsing in relation to this.

Just one question regarding WordPress and in particular the Thesis theme: Do you actually need to go in and do code edits with WordPress, on such basic things as changing font size , color, etc ?

That does sound like a bit of a pain, as you can do that with Blogger in a split second(click)using Blogger ‘s template editor.

In my case, I get a fair amount of coding practice, as I am using a Bloggerized WordPress theme that does not allow you to use Blogger’s template editor.
It’s a bit of a trade off, “Great template —-limited editing function apart from manual code edits)
So maybe the shift to WordPress Thesis won’t be as Painful for me (The learning kerb required).

By: Niall

Niall — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 21:51:40 +0000

No problem. 🙂

By: Nicholas Tart

Nicholas Tart — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 18:04:23 +0000

I’m glad, Nitin. Almost every blog starts with a simple design. Then you just keep tweakin’ it.