"Blog Design" Posts
Beyond the template, we’ll help you establish a look-and-feel that matches your company’s brand. ContentRobot also provides content architecture so that all your information is easy to find and in the right place.
What Year is It on Your Blog?
Are you still writing 2007 on your checks (if you are still writing them)? Even tho we are over two weeks into the new year, are you still struggling to say this is 2008?
Now … what does your blog’s copyright date say? Scroll down to see your footer, do you see © Copyright 2007 Your Blog Name?
While it’s a little mistake, it may be big and glaring in the eyes of any unforgiving readers. Don’t give them any reason to question why they should stay on your blog.
Add Some Holiday Spirit To Your Blog With Our Animated Snow For WordPress
To help spread holiday cheer, ContentRobot has created an animated header with falling snow for the WordPress default (Kubrick) theme. You can easily add this Flash-based header to your site and it will overlay falling snow on top of your existing header graphic. No fiddling with Flash necessary, simply upload a few files to your server and the snow automatically appears!
You can view an animated example here.
The “Snowified” header is easily customized via a simple text file.
Choose from three different snowflake styles.- Customizable flake fall speed and rotation amount.
- Choose to display the blog’s title and description within the Flash file (or hide it if your logo is part of your header image).
- Dynamically loads external header JPEG behind falling snow.
- Chose to display snow within the rounded area of the header or have the snow fill the full header.
Tips & Tricks to Improve Blog Accessibility
In the final post of our Blog Accessibility Series, ContentRobot provides some tips to helping your design your blog for a wider audience.
1. Use Relative Font Sizes
Express font sizes in percentages or ems, rather than absolute font sizes expressed in points or pixels. The allows users to make the text larger or smaller as they wish.
2. Design & Label Your Forms Properly
Lay out your forms logically and consistently, make proper use of labels, and avoid client-side scripts and radio buttons will make your web forms much more accessible to users who are visually impaired.
Design Your Blog to Be More Accessible to a Wider Audience
The World Web Web Consortium has published guidelines to help designers make their sites more accessible. ContentRobot has summarized some key points below.
- Make multimedia content (images, video, and audio) more accessible to a wide audience. This can be done using text equivalents (often rendered with Alt tags within HTML documents). Text can be rendered in ways that are available to almost all browsing devices and accessible to almost all users.
Is Your Blog Accessible to People With Disabilities?
Blog designers should consider ways to make Web content more available to all users, and help people find information more quickly.
Consider that many users may be operating in contexts very different from your own. Have you thought about these issues while designing your blog?
Web Surfing Devices
Websites can be viewed from a desktop or laptop browser, voice browser, mobile phone, automobile-based personal computer, etc. Can your users connect to your blog using all these devices?
