Zero to Hero: Day Ten
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@ngrigor Clutter is always a personal issue. Remember the rules of journalism, above the fold is what gets read, the top left corner is golden, so do not waste it. And go from there.
Or written differently.
When you pull up your webpage, that is what would normally be above the fold. The top left corner is golden – that is why you usually see a WordPress logo there when you are logged onto your software (their software).
What you are looking at is what everyone will (READ THAT WILL) look at. They MAY look at the rest of our page, but they will SEE what you are looking at now.
Do YOU like it? If you do not, you know you need a change. Do your friends like it? Remember they will lie. Do strangers like it? They will also lie, but less often than friends.
Good blogging,
Wayne
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@pkanwar1983
Thank you for your comment. It’s encouraging. Saw your lenzexperiments blog which I follow now.@ngrigor
appetizing recipes ;-)). I think you have good sidebar. But as you noticed it all depends on your individual needs. I like mine for instance. pkanwar1983 thinks it tends to be overloaded a bit. And his lenzexperiments blog has 11 as far as I saw on his about page. In general I would say less is more even when I use 12 (!) ;-)) If you feel comfortable with yours it’s ok. I deleted on mine the email following and use only the blue follow luthersjournal bandage. -
I am not your friend, and I tend to be very direct. So, I will only mention one thing.
Your links on your site are not visible for me, their color is too light, almost salmon-pink? Look at the links on my site, or someone else’s and compare and contrast.
Remember what readers see is what they remember, what readers do not see well is a subliminal distraction.
Wayne
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@Luvsiesous2000, this is a support thread for bloggers participating in a 30-day challenge to jump-start their blogs. If you want to learn more about it, check out the challenge details.
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I read that before I asked.
So, do you have a destination page in mind? “Finished product?”
Wayne
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@luvsiesous2000, not really sure what you mean — blogs are never really *finished*. (Well, until you decide to shut them down ;) ) Everyone here is just developing their own site.
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@ngrigor your site looks great! Not too cluttered which drives me nuts…LOL I’ve looked at 50+ blogs this week and some are so cluttered up and messy looking that I end up leaving. Not to mention too, that some have so many words in their posts that you have to scroll all the way down to read. Immediate turn off for me, but that’s just me.
I’ve always believed in the “less is more” idea -:) -
@luvsiesous2000 Thank you so much for your honest input!! I see what you mean and I added some color in the background for contrast. I
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I added a calendar widget and wrote a 200 word post:
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I decided to take out all of my widgets and start from scratch (except the about widget we made on day 1? 2?). What are people’s thoughts on Twitter & Instagram? Also, drop down list or regular list for archives and categories? How do you guys navigate through a blog?
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I also do not want my page to be so busy that it’s distracting but did add a Follow widget (only had follow via email before) and removed the pics from the Facebook like widget. Also did some reordering. Pretty happy with it.
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I’ve decided to remove my Twitter & Instagram widgets. Instead, I’d like to put in little images for people to click on so they can get to my social media. Does anyone know how to do that for Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram, Tumblr & Bloglovin’?
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/@415whisperer, you’d need the Custom Design upgrade for that, so you could use custom fonts and/or CSS./
Uh, I do have the Custom Design upgrade… I just haven’t figured out how to use it?
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I got 2 hours sleep the night before, and even went to church – not usual for 2 hours sleep. I got 5 hours this morning, 7 to noon, my time.
I blog to ignore the pain. Just now, my leg cramped.
Oh the joys of Government Medicine ….
So, I blog to ignore the pain.
How will your program “Zero to Hero” help me use Word Press as as a blogging platform? How do I get WP to work as a blogging platform?
I want the readership growth which comes from blogging. Been doing that since 2005, very well until Word Press.
Wayne
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Here I go playing catch-up again. Weekends are hard for me to blog.
Nonetheless I’m committed to my blog, my followers and future followers :)
I added a Twitter widget, customized some of my existing widget titles (i.e. Edible Gallery, Search for Deliciousness, etc.).
Let me know what you think.
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A small piece of feedback, prompted by looking at the lovely blog by Hernandez of @ediblereflections. I’m sure lots of people will love this feature but there is something about blogs with infinite scroll enabled that just makes me want to turn off. It annoys me I can’t get to the bottom of your page – I much prefer having a limited number of posts on one page and having to “turn” a page to see older posts. Like I said, there’s so many blogs out there with this feature but it’s a bit of a turn off for me. I really did love her blog though – gorgeous photos, fun writing, can’t wait to try the recipes!
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@jobakes
When infinite scroll was introduced I was dead set against it. I had this 10 year old concept of what a blog ought to look like but I am on desktop. As time passed and I tested my blogs using infinite scroll and disabling it I completely changed my mind. There is a mobile explosion going on. There are more people with mobiles that those who own toothbrushes according to reputable sources.Considered to be a fad when introduced, Tablets are quickly replacing PCs and Tablet sales are likely to surpass PCs by 2015. Worldwide PC shipments are down 10 – 11 percent from last year. http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2013/11/10/responsive-web-design-the-gold-standard/ I deliberately choose to use responsive width theme and I enable infinite scroll on my blogs as well due to the results of my experimentation with both.
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