29th
Feb/08

Affiliate Confession Redesign!

Posted: 1:44 am by tom in Blog, Marketing, Push Standards, Reviews, Web Design

Affiliate Confession

I’m happy to announce the launch of AffiliateConfession’s new redesign, courtesy of PushStandards! I’ve been working closely with webmaster Alan LeStourgeon to give his blog the best possible new look.

For those of you who don’t already know AffiliateConfession, I highly recommend it, as it makes great reading. Alan updates very frequently with great affiliate related tips and tricks and his blog looks set to become VERY successful.

Alan was actually nice enough to dedicate an entire post to crediting me as the designer, a really nice gesture on his part. You can see the post here.

I’ve also added Affiliate Confession to my portfolio, so feel free to check out the casestudy there.

In true PushStandards form I couldn’t just post announcing the redesign. There are some great lessons to be learnt from the experience and I’d like to share them with you…
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22nd
Feb/08

Blog Design Lessons 1: Menus

Posted: 1:21 am by tom in Blog, Web Design

bloggingdesignclassmenusthumb.jpgAs a web designer I’m really interested in design trends as well as good design practices. Blogging may be all about content, but nobody is going to stick around to read your thoughts if your blog is horribly designed. As a designer I thought that I would start a series of blog design lessons for the average blogger - essentially just pointing them in the right direction to improving their blogs appearance.

The benefits of a well-designed blog:

  • You have more credibility and people will trust you more.
  • Often good design results in improved usability/accessibility.
  • You will be able to improve your brand by setting yourself apart from the bulk of poorly designed blogs.
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