8 Reasons to Redesign Your Blog
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–> Written by Samuel in Blogging

Last week, after writing an article about 8 Web Design Mistakes That Developers Make, I took inventory of the antique design, and decided it was time for a redesign (despite the certainty that the going to decay design only lasted two months). So this part not only ushers in the newly come design, but moreover answers the question: Why even redesign a blog in the foremost place? So here are 8 good reasons for anyone to redesign their blog.

1. Things Have Gotten Messy
Blogs evolve over time and although your layout and navigation seem intuitive to you, you’ve also been looking at it every day. Furthermore, you’ve probably added new sections and ideas along the way, discovery ways to fit the content in a design that might not comfort it. Since a blog’s core is its appease, sometimes you need to clean up your existing design to make access to this content easier.

2. Your Brand Needs Refocusing
As noted, blogs tend to evolve with new ideas all the time. Furthermore, the goals you originally had for your site bring forth either been reached or have drastically changed. Consider what your new goals are and change your locality accordingly. Just make sure you plan beneficial to the next year, not just the next month.

3. The Community Needs Improving
Although the camaraderie in the midst of bloggers is racy, blogs in and of themselves aren’t truly “communities” since only a tiny percentage of visitors ever participate in the comments. However, there is still great value amongst those who do choose to participate, with equal reason it’s always good to promote that. One method of promoting community started here are group warning posts. Another is adding robustness to your comment section, using features like avatars (we’re now using gravatars), annotate threading, and email notification.

4. You’ve Ignored Your Own Advice
We bloggers can be quite didactic at state of things, listing out rules and reasons with a view to various activities, including blogging. So depending on your topic, just make sure your blog is in line with the advice you dispense. If you’re a blogger who covers websites, you should with appearance of truth have decent standards of XHTML and CSS. (Yes, that mode we finally replaced the tables in the sidebar through CSS [although there are still other tasks that need attention]).

5. It Makes Business Sense
No need to beat around the bush…if you need a better layout for advertising or sales, then achieve it. Blogging can be quite the timely exercise, so if you be possible to cover some time and expense, you should design for it. Just do it in a tasteful way, remembering that you always need content and visitors first. There’s nothing vile with making currency (says this author who’s currently public recital Atlas Shrugged).

6. The People Demand It
You should always file away suggestions the you’ve received from others. Chances are, your visitors are a bit more objective about your site than you are. So if people say that your navigation is confusing, then that means that your navigation is confusing. Your blog’s success is directly proportional to your visitors’ perception of it. Take their advice.

7. The Analytics Demand It
I would also suggest that occasionally, you check your visitor analytics and have a pretty suitable idea of where your commerce comes from, what they click on, and what pages they leave from. Although such data be able to be misinterpreted a hundred different ways, whether or not there are obvious flags (liking a high bounce rate or a low average visit time), you should try to address them with a new design.

8. You Really, Really Want To
It’s your blog, and granting that you really crave to redesign it, then go for it. Although the objective reasons above should play a part in the decision, if you’re passionate surrounding a redesign (or anything besides conducive to that matter), eminence often follows. Just don’t get carried let us go. to the condition that your content creation becomes secondary to your design creation.

And one last thing: it is inevitable that after any redesign, people will wrangle with some of your design decisions. Listen well, but also remember that (hopefully) you’ve already spent many hours considering and testing many persons options. Don’t immediately start reverting changes unless you’re convinced by multiple voices or obvious analytics. Stay positive, take pleasure in any good or helpful feedback, listen to everyone, and then get back to creating content.