In reference to the post “The 7 deadly blog sins.”I add the following:
8. No visible comment area. Perhaps she’s trying to get us to blog about it instead of simply polluting her comment page. No matter- it sends the vibe that “I do not care what your comment is”and that may be true and valid but really,a comment form is a good thing. Her repeat visitors might stay longer if they’re looking to see if anyone responded to their comment.
9. No memorable graphic image in the header. As I was reading her blog,I realized that I had been there before. The posts weren’t forgettable (they were funny and easy to relate to) but the look of it was very forgettable. Personally,I enjoy graphic header image banners. It’s like your face sitting atop of your blog’s body.
That’s all I have to say,and if you’re having the problem she described in sin #6 go into your browser settings and have every link open in their own tab. Then,you never have to right click to open a tab again.
Incidentally,if you are disabling right clicks in an effort to prevent people from stealing your graphics,please know that all they need to do if they really want it that bad,is to view your page source code for the URL of the photo. OR- if they hold down the alt key and press “print scrn”they can paste your entire front page into any .doc and use their photo editing software to crop and steal your image,or even an entire screen in your website (as a static image.)
Anyone care to post these instructions for mac users? I could go in to the mac and figure it out but really,there are so many blogs to read and the baby is almost ready to burp.
This is an entertaining read. Thanks for the useful tips on designing and maintaining a blog! I totally understand your concern in deadly blog sin #8. Blogs that don’t have space for comments just throw off readers.