The days when a simple worldpress template was good enough for a succesful blog have passed. Now, to stay be the first in your niche you have to follow the trends in blog designing.
When it comes to designing your blog, be sure you use all the methods you know to make a cool and, in the same time, a clear design. Your content may not be all that counts. If your blog looks old fashion you'll lose your visitors in an instance. Make sure your design in unique by creating it by yourself.
If you're not designing the blog by yourself make sure you know what to ask for. A easy to read blog is what a internet user is searching for.
I'll start by sharing some ideas about certain elements of a blog.
a. Dimensions for the page
Make sure your blog displays corect on large screen resoltions, alot of users use large screens for their computers. Be sure your page doesn't take the whole screen width on small resolutions and, in the same time it's not displayed in less than 70% of the screen in large screen resolutions. Use CSS stylesheets for that!
b. Navigation
Try to use horizontal menus with large butoons, easy to read, and don't forget to add some text with informations about the the page near the button or inside it.
Use hoover effects for your vertical navigation menu (the archive of the blog) and don't forget to add some cool animations (javascript, jquery, css)
c. Images
Use images with the same size in the posts. It's a mistake to use large pictures for one blog and then use small thumbnail for another.
Add transparent watermarks and borders with shadows to the images. This watermarks should match your blog general design.
d. Tags for the articles
Use tags for your articles. Display the tags in the article and somewhere in the sidebar. Use visible fonts and different colors for every tag. This way the user will find a tag easier.
e. Add a large search box in a very visible place.
f. Don't display more than 10 article's summary on one page.
g. Use a different font for the first letter from an article. This is proved to be a success method that helps your readers find the articles.
Using those methods your page would be easy to read and will let your users know that you care about them. The chances to be revisited by lots of users are higher if your design in clear and fancy in the same time. Try to think outside the box, write cool articles and your blog would be on the top.
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There is just something timeless and special in the giving and receiving of gifts of fine chocolates. No matter what the age a person is, their eyes become like those of a child's, wide with anticipation as they open their box of fragrant sweet gourmet chocolates. This is why for an ever growing segment of the gift giving public, not just any store bought, off the shelf box of chocolates will do.
A Step Back in Time
Chocolates such as those can be had any day, any time by anyone and while tasty in their own right, they just don't compare to the types and styles of classic European gourmet chocolates that can now be so easily procured online. Browsing through the extensive selection of some of the online specialty chocolate shops is almost like taking gastronomical step back in time, to an earlier era when chocolate making was truly appreciated as an art form.
Gourmet Mozart Chocolates
For instance; Mozart Chocolates are truly a chocolate gift that any lover of music and fine classic chocolates will relish. The original recipe for this unique and delicious confection was developed in the year 1890 by a Salzburg master chocolateer by the name of Paul Furst. They are still being made today, to the exacting specifications of the original recipe and of course they are easily available through a few exclusive online sources.
The Taste Of Austria
Austria has for centuries been recognized as the home of some of the finest gourmet chocolateers and candy makers in the world and it still is. You simply aren't going to find the same level of quality that goes into the making of these Austrian chocolates at your local candy store, no mater how fine of chocolates they sell. The good news however, is that you don't have to take a European vacation to procure fine Austrian chocolates, because they too can now be found at these same online sites.
Original Family Recipes
What is so surprising when you shop for these and other fine gourmet European chocolates, is that they don't cost a whole lot more then the standard off the shelf fare that you will find at your local store. The reason for that is simple. European chocolateers make and sell their product as they have since chocolate was delivered to them by the first explorers of the new world. These special recipes and formulas that have been passed on from generation to generation are all that they have known.
So Easy and Affordable
Its the way that their parents and grandparents have shown them and its only recently that the Internet has made them so easily available on both sides of the Atlantic. So this new ease of marketing and shipping has enabled the cost on these once so out of reach wonderful chocolate products to remain reasonable. So now giving gourmet chocolate gifts that are truly special is more easy and affordable then it has ever been before.
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