Blog Content Organization : Labels and Categories

Content organization is something you want to start thinking about early on in your blogging journey. The sooner you start, the easier it is to maintain, the more likely you are to get started and keep it going. No one wants to organize 100+ posts worth of content in one shot; ok maybe some people who love to organize (I started when I had about 40 posts because that's when I started to have enough stuff to organize into categories). If you want to just dab your toes in it to start, I recommend a Project Gallery type of page. You don't need to categorize yet, but all your projects are in one place...

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Blog Content Organization: Project Gallery

Blog navigation, to me, is one of the most useful, and essential part of a blog. You want any readers coming to your blog to be able to find more stuff to read, which means more pageviews for you! So you have to help them find what they want, and more importantly, what they didn't even know they wanted! At the beginning of your blog journey, you're gonna dab in a bit of this, and a bit of that. You may not know what your categories are, and you may not want to commit yourself right away. That's ok. I suggest you start a Project Gallery as soon as you can, though! You don't need to categorize,...

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Choosing a Color Palette

I mentioned a while ago now that I wanted to write about choosing a color palette, but have been putting it off because I wanted to code more. Now I want to get it out of the way. Now, all time I designed my blog I chose a scrapbook kit and that pretty much dictated what my color palette was going to be. This time around, all the elements I found that I liked were just plain overlays, doodles, etc that were just borders without a predefined color. Also, maybe I didn't find a scrapbook kit I liked this time around because the color palette was off. Anyway, I had to choose my own colors to design...

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Header Layout

When I started thinking about this new blog design, I knew I wanted to make better use of my header. The space above the fold is very precious real estate, it's the first bit of your blog a reader sees, it sets the tone and feel of a blog. As much as I loved my old header, it was just an image, and it was not very useful in any other way. Ok, I did have a menu below it, that was useful, but that's it. It's become more and more of a trend to put different elements right within the header, for ease of use to the reader. Social media icons, email subscription, search bar are all a common part of...

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