Hey, I have a fairly new blog and I was wondering what everyone's opinions are of my blog in terms of content, design, layout, speed etc. URL: www.codeitred.com Any help and tips are really appreciated!
I would say a clean and nice design. However, you will need a "Read More..." link. I didn't know that your articles are that long until I clicked on your articles' title which most will not.
Wow, never thought of it like that. I just thought the less confusing and less troublesome for the users the better. I will edit that now as it is a pretty darn good point!
Looks good. -On some of the posts on the frontpage, the social bookmark links are jumbled -- namely the "Temporary and Disposable Email Service Providers" and "Remotely control your PC using a Gmail account" posts. -I'd recommend listing categories in the sidebar, in the header it is easily missed.
Will put the categories in the sidebar! Thanks for that tip. What do you mean by the links being jumbled? I just checked and they look fine to me...
In the Opera browswer they're all pushed to the left and are partially stacked on top of one another.
I just tried to fix it up however it is not working. Is there anyone out there who has some experience in CSS who can help me out with the lining up? Edit- I seemed to fix it. Mizaks if you could kindly take a look to see if I got it right?
I was also just wondering if it is worth adding anything extra to my sidebar? I took out half of the junk that was in there...
The template colors and layout draw me in right way...very clean and not too busy. Good, timely topics. What I'm most impressed with is the quality of writing. I see so many blogs thrown up haphazardly, some with good original content, but very poorly written. If the copy is not engaging, I don't come back. I'll subscribe to your RSS. If you get to 10 or more posts in a category I would suggest adding a link to a next page, rather than scrolling indefinitely. Great job.
Thanks for the tips! You will notice that there actually are some Previous and Next page buttons at the bottom however the text for some reason came out small, I will probably make that larger right now... Thanks for the comments, I try my best to write some good content and my goal is to draw readers in.
Thanks for the support arwen54. This is one of my first major production blogs so I am going to put in all the effort. Thanks for all the support everyone has shown.
If anyone else has any tips or criticism then I would like to hear it. I am still looking for some more ways that I can improve my blog.
As an update, I have included the top commentator plugin for my sidebar so now my commentators can get a link back to their site! If anyone else has any tips/comments about my blog please let me know!