I'd really appreciate your opinion on the design of my blog. I am using a free theme for thesis called looks good naked. My goal is to focus on the content, and at the same time get people to sign up for my newsletter (in the right sidebar). http://www.slymarketing.com Thanks a lot.
You definitely have content and as others have said, it is king. I did have one problem when clicking on the comments as well as the reports tab at the top; "Error establishing a database connection". *Edit* Tried comments and the reports tab again and they both worked now. May be some hosting issue you will need to keep an eye on.
Hi! It may be a 100% subjective opinion , but I do think that Thesis should be more spiced up visually. Try using a custom header , add more variation to the background colors and the sidebars , highlight somehow the titles ; I'm saying all of that simply because I think that your content is awesome and should have more visual impact. You may be thinking that if you are doing that you'll come across as a yet another cheesy marketer but it doesn't have to be like that if you "art" properly ( like someone said before ) . I see that the site is 5+ years old. You have a ton of articles there that are great and could use some inside promotion ( like a top 10 or something) later edit* : I tried subscribing to your RSS feed but it doesn't redirect me to a popular subscription service . People are lazy , they want to have a way to remember your link in a snap . I would use Feedburner .
Thanks a lot. I have just added the Feedburner redirect plugin. Now, I'll start working on the inside promotion (great tips). I'll take a look at my header and see if I can do something about it
I would really appreciate it if someone could tell me what they think of my newsletter sign-up box (in the right sidebar, just below my picture)? Would you have changed it, or does it fit my design? This is the link: http://www.slymarketing.com Thanks again.