Now that you’ve selected your niche let’s look at some blog design tips with your readers in mind. Balancing a design with pizzazz and individuality to attract new visitors but yet still have the warmth and comfort of an old worn shoe for returning readers is a delicate task. In order to accomplish this feat here are 5 tips that will increase the appeal of your blog design.

1) Blog theme

The overall blog theme should correspond with the niche you’re blogging about. Don’t confuse your visitors by going off target with pictures, symbols, or other visual aids that ‘decorate’ your blog but have no relationship with the niche you’re in. Your blog theme is a subtle yet powerful component that reinforces your affiliation with the niche you’re in.

For instance on Halloween you display pumpkins, witches, and other scenes and figures commonly associated with this holiday. Christmas holds the same association with Santa Claus just as Thanksgiving does with pilgrims or turkeys.

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So if you are looking to create your own site at no cost and without those annoying pop ups ads, just follow this little tip and you can get it in no time.

1. Go to http://sites.google.com and create an account.
2. Log in into your account and click the “Create Site” button.
3. Choose from the large variety of templates and enter all the info that is require.
4. Once your site is created, click edit to begin entering content. You can add calendars, files, photo slideshows, and more!

Let a 404 error be an opportunity for you not the death knell to a visit to your site.

How often have you mistyped a file name in a web address? Have you ever clicked on a search result listing link to a dead page?

How many times did this result in the frustratingly uninformative ‘404 - page not found’ thrown up by search engines or, worse, by ISPs flooding your screen with irrelevant ads? What do you? Try again or just go elsewhere? I’d put money on it being the latter!

Just remember how you feel when this happens to you and you’ll understand how important t is for you to make sure this doesn’t happen to your visitors.

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RSS wears many a hats - rich site summary, really simple syndication- RSS or even Resource Description Framework (RDF).

RSS is basically a lighter XML format designed for sharing Web content. As it is one of the simplest uses of XML, RSS has become widely distributed. The RSS file can include a logo, a site link, an input box, and multiple news items. Each news item consists of a URL, a title, and a summary.

Because the data is in XML, and not a display language like HTML, RSS information can be flowed into a large number of devices. In addition to being used to create news summary web pages, RSS can be fed into stand-alone news browsers or headline viewers, PDAs, cell phones, email ticklers and even voice updates.

RSS files are created by content publishers and then delivered to people who have subscribed to that feed using a “feed reader” application also called a news aggregator. The feed reader program checks with the originator of the content regularly and if it finds any new content available from a particular site, downloads the information about it, called metadata, into the application automatically.

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Today anyone who has writing ability or is dreaming to be a writer has written a blog in the net. There are blog software that are simple and easy to use and technically inclined and challenged individuals can easily acquire a blog online.

For some individuals, blogs are their projects of every day living, as they talk about their daily episodes as well as make tribute to friends and family. Furthermore, blogs assume a profound meaning written to compose and assemble political statements, endorse a product, supply information on research, and even offer tutorials. Any subject that are of your interests, you can be sure that someone has written a blog about it.

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