Comments on: Making your blog post easy to read

By: Dave Whittle

Dave Whittle — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 18:53:19 +0000

Hello John,

Sound advice indeed and I must admit I tend to write a post and forget about white space.

I have to say I keep looking at the Thesis theme as it is really isn’t it.
I don’t think you have a problem with white space as your posts are very clear.
Regards,
David
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By: John

John — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 08:00:11 +0000

Hi Andrew,

Thanks for the tip about the ‘Read More’ widget, I’ll get that added later on today after taking the kids to their golf lesson.

As you say, I just tried to get my blog up and running rather than right first time which would me my natural instinct.

I’ve found a blog theme called Thesis which I’m currently investigating. It’s made by a compant http://www.diythemes.com and you do have to pay for it, but apparently it is very SEO friendly and has vast flexability to edit including the option to turn the sidebar off on pages if required. The idea being to reduce the distractions available to viewers when talking about a lengthy topic (such as List building) embedded in which you could add your affilliate links.

I’ll keep you posted.
John

By: Andrew Graham

Andrew Graham — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 23:11:26 +0000

Hi John,

Thanks for dropping by my blog yesterday and leaving a comment.

I am glad that I have now visited your blog as I picked up some useful information from this blog post in particular, which then led me to Karen’s blog as well.

I am very concious of website and sales page layout and content and your tips build on what I already new. I know that we are supposed to “Don’t get it right, just get it going” but I think a shoddy site or sales page (ie one that is not well laid out, has different fonts for different paragraphs and too many spelling and grammatical errors) put people off. They do me. I think that if the sales page looks like this then the product is not going to be good quality either. So you leave the page/site without taking action. As you say…first impressions are important.

I can tell that you appreciate the finer points of layout and content, and if you follow a few basic rules it shouldn’t take much longer to put the page/post together and the results should be much better.

BTW…..one suggestion that I would make about your blog layout (and Karen’s as well) is that perhaps you should think about using the Read More.. option in WordPress. I have recently added that to my blog and it is so easy to use. It means that the reader can more quickly scroll down through your blog looking for the headings that interest them. This way they don’t get the “this blog looks exhausting” feeling. If you don’t know how to apply the Read More option in WordPress just let me know and I can tell you.

Sorry….didn’t expect to make this comment so long.

Cheers,
Andrew
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By: admin

admin — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 07:35:20 +0000

Hi Gary,

Nice example, glad I’m starting to get on the right track.

John

By: Gary Simpson

Gary Simpson — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 03:41:43 +0000

Actually – working example for everyone else to see the difference. Hi John… YES YES YES! You “get it!” White space. Short sentences. Short paragraphs. Well done! I have been trying to teach this to people but they still keep writing like lawyers do – ie start in the top LH corner and finish in the bottom RH corner with 1200 words and very little punctuation. It’s ridiculous! No wonder so many people have few or NO visitors. Their blogs look just TOO HARD to read! Yours is great BTW! Incidentally, my new e-book (almost finished) is about copywriting and I have devoted a fair bit of attention to this very subject. Thanks for your visit to the TEMPLE – LOL!

BIG difference huh?

Gary Simpson
TEMPLE

By: Gary Simpson

Gary Simpson — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 03:38:55 +0000

Hi John…

YES YES YES! You “get it!” White space. Short sentences. Short paragraphs.

Well done!

I have been trying to teach this to people but they still keep writing like lawyers do – ie start in the top LH corner and finish in the bottom RH corner with 1200 words and very little punctuation. It’s ridiculous!

No wonder so many people have few or NO visitors. Their blogs look just TOO HARD to read!

Yours is great BTW!

Incidentally, my new e-book (almost finished) is about copywriting and I have devoted a fair bit of attention to this very subject.

Thanks for your visit to the TEMPLE – LOL!

Gary Simpson
TEMPLE

By: admin

admin — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 17:29:16 +0000

I’ve managed to change the font style from Georgia to Verdana in the body section of the blog.

I did this from WP-Admin, Selecting Appearance, then Editor and simply overwriting the Style sheet value.

Hope it looks a bit better.

By: admin

admin — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 04:30:37 +0000

Thanks Karen,

I know there are so many improvements I could make to capture leads and get people to sign up for eBooks, but I’m in Thailand at the moment, so I’m trying to find content that Newbies like us will find interesting.
It’s wierd, but I’m almost wishing my vacation away so I can get back to my blog, but whilst I’ve been out here I’ve tried to record some video clips of myself for the site to act as an incentive for me to be successful so I can come back.

Speak to you soon,
John

By: Karen Kalata

Karen Kalata — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 12:25:33 +0000

Hi John,

I am flattered that you’ve posted this article on your blog.

I would also like to mention that you have done a wonderful job yourself with your blog, I think that it’s coming out beautifully.

I stopped by last night, but I was rushed out the door, so I came back today to read some of your posts and I need to tell you John, you’re a well-spring of good ideas!

Keep moving forward, I really look forward to coming back and spending more time here. The post on Attitude was a great read.

Take care,
Karen