Blog Design For Dummies

Melissa Culbertson is a marketing communicator and blogger who shares blogging tips and blog design consultations at Momcomm.com and conducts Content Brew, an online course in social media content creation. She has been a featured speaker at Type A Parent Conference.

Introduction 1 Part I: Getting Started with Blog Design 5 Chapter 1: Recognizing Components of a Well-Designed Blog 7 Chapter 2: Applying Core Design Principles 23 Chapter 3: Getting to Know Your Blog (Even Better) 35 Chapter 4: Establishing a Style Guide 47 Part II: Choosing the Visual Design Elements 59 Chapter 5: Gathering Design Ideas 61 Chapter 6: Selecting Fonts and Colors 83 Chapter 7: Developing Your Overall Blog Layout 105 Chapter 8: Customizing Your Header, Footer, and Background 131 Chapter 9: Customizing the Design with Coding Basics 155 Part III: Designing for Easy Navigation and Interactivity 171 Chapter 10: Navigation and SEO Basics 173 Chapter 11: Laying Out Your Navigation Menu and Sidebars 191 Chapter 12: Making Content Easy to Find 215 Chapter 13: Increasing Ability to Share and Interact 227 Part IV: Creating Design-Friendly Content 243 Chapter 14: Designing Main Pages of Content 245 Chapter 15: Working with Images 265 Chapter 16: Incorporating Design into Your Blog Posts 291 Part V: The Part of Tens 299 Chapter 17: Ten Places to Extend Your Blog s Design 301 Chapter 18: Ten Well-Designed Blogs 311 Index 323