Columns, I refer.
Why must your blog be designed with two or three columns? Everyone’s blog looks like that! I keep experimenting with a single-column look and I keep nixing and changing it. I think it’s time to keep the single view, don’t you?
I awoke this morning to a 2-column design at AriWriter. I will sleep with this current look of a single column.
The sidebar content, albeit with elements truncated, is at the bottom of this page.
Chris Pearson, developer of the Thesis theme for Wordpress that powers this blog design, explains some of the background and reasoning for why I did what I did:
I wrote about the importance of minimalism 15 months ago–before I shifted it. Now, it’s back. You like?
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I don’t know…I think you’re forfeiting valuable sidebar space!
I realize the sidebar stuff is at the bottom, but to see it, you make your readers work, go that extra mile – and they might not. If I hadn’t wanted to leave a comment, I would have missed it. Isn’t that marketing 101, make everything as easy as possible for the customer?
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You make an assumption: What sidebar stuff?
If you are visiting my blog, I want you to read and/or comment. Everything else is fluff. You disagree? What would you like to see?
I like your blog in a single column, it’s inventive. I don’t think it takes away from your blog at all, it simply sets it apart as unique.
Simplicity is good, so many blogs have sidebars just overflowing with stuff. (I’m working on a post about blog layout/navigation actually.) In thinking about Julie’s comment I wonder if you could add some navigation help by just adding a Topics Tags archive page at the top as another link in the blue boxes. It could go to a page like http://www.heidicool.com/blog/tag-list/. That would make it easy for people to browse without going to the bottom. (My blog relies more on categories and tags but I have pages for each. One of these days I’ll clean them up so that categories are broad and tags are specific.) As always I enjoy how you share our thoughts behind the various changes you make both here and in the social media sphere.
New from Heidi Cool: “Make the Web site bright and shiny.” Bells, whistles and video are only cool if they help you tell your story. Choose carefully.