Oct | 30 | 2007

Why A Good Blog Template is Crucial

Posted by Jaren as Blog Tutorials News, Design and Themes, Templates

Blog Templates make or break us plus aside from the fact our content, but a good blog theme is crucial.

I recently did a post on the QuickStop titled“Blogging Sarcasm” and the number 2 of my list is this :

2. Pick the most weirdest templates with the weirdest colors or better yet make your own â€œWeirdâ€ blog template, less experience you have the better.

Yes that was a joke, I was just try to make fun. After all blogging is supposed to be fun.. right?
But to redeem myself, I’m telling you that a good blog template is crucial, a well designed blog incorporates simplicity and readability and still retains professionalism. May it be a personal blog or a business blog. A natural thing keep reading the articles that is focused on readability. Check out some blogs and take a look at the design, the more simple the design of the blog is the more your readers will focus on reading. I really liked the post on CodeSlack “Why Blog Templates are very Important.

Which tell us to make great use of these factors :

1. Content Area Width – getting that 2 column design was neat, wide enough for the words to flow through on the left content area and enough to get a sidebar running on the right. Since we in general read from left to right, it gets us enough time and less eye stress due to it let us stay on a line long enough before moving to another one.
2. Fontography / Font Size – Notice how it made best use of font sizes on different sections, since primarily it only had four parts (the header, the blog post title, the sidebar header, the paragraphs). Sizes weâ€™re proportion enough for each part to serve itâ€™s purpose.
3. Horizontal Rule – A must particularly when itâ€™s colored properly. This gives enough quick shot on the readers eye that, â€œhey! comes after this line is another sectionâ€
4. Better use of WhiteSpaces and Line Height – Less cluttered text, much readable
5. Limited and Maximized use of Images – I only counted one, the gradient header. I ainâ€™t counting the images on the sidebar as itâ€™s not design related images.

Here are 30 Dark Designs that you can use as basis or inspiration for your “dream blog template”

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