30 Things You Can Do To Increase Your Blog’s Usability

Posted October 29, 2007

Readability of a blog or other web site is what I believe to be the main way to keep readers, aside from content of course. Pro Blog Design has listed 30 things you can do now to increase readability of your blog, including underlining your links (and saving underlines for them only), posting pictures at the beginning of the post (pictures help grab attention to the post, so why do it any other place), and restyling the CSS of your theme to make owner comments stand out.

Something else I want to bring up, which is also found in this article, is the wall of text. That is, a huge block of text in one paragraph with no life, soul, or end in sight. Truthfully, this is the only thing I can think of that would make me skip reading the post. I use Google Reader to catch up on all of the blogs I read, and when I expand that post to find one huge block of text I don’t even bother.

[30 Ways to Improve Readability via Pro Blog Design]

2 Comments so far

  1. Michael from Pro Blog Design on October 29th, 2007

    Thanks for the link Jake. I agree entirely that readability is crucial, especially in the feed readers. When someone is flicking from one post to another, like you said, a boring looking post is going to get few readers. You have to make things easy for the reader. :)

  2. Mike on October 29th, 2007

    Yeah, I agree. And I need to start using google reader. My first experience wasn’t quite good… ;)

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