How to give professional look to blog? Few tips every blogger should follow
How to give professional look to blog? Few tips every blogger should follow
You might have seen What does the blog mean? How do I create a blog? Before creating a blog follow some tips & tricks in the previous post. In this post, I will tell about how to give a professional look to the blog. Making blogs in blogger is easy.
Blog design has to be done by selecting a particular theme in Blogger. You can use blogger's inbuild templates. But the blog looks just fine. You must have seen lots of blogs that look absolutely professional. Why does their blog or website look professional? How can we design blog just like their blog? There will be lots of questions in your mind.
● Should you have knowledge of web designing for blog designing?
● Can the ordinary person who does not have knowledge of web designing can give a professional look to the blog?
Yes . You can also design a professional looking blog. You do not need to have complete knowledge of web designing. An ordinary person can design a blog with a good design.
How to create a professional looking blog?
1) Search for free premium template
By the way, Blogger gives you many dafalut templates but the blog doesn't look very attractive. You will find many free custom templates on the internet. There are plenty of uses of custom templates.
• Uniqueness:
The blog looks attractive and unique, which has good impression to the visitors.
• Optimized for SEO:
Generally, Web Designers make custom templates which are SEO (search engine optimization) friendly.
How to download free custom templates?
One easy way to download free premium templates is to go to google images and search for free custom templates for Blogger. After searching, you will see images of template. Click on the good image from those images. After the image is open, click on the option of visit page down in the left side. Now a website will be opened from there, you can download the templates.The template that you download will be in the zip file and you have to extract it in the xml file. Because xml file supports Blogger
Websites to Download Free CustomTemplates.
You can download free custom templates from the websites below.
• http://btemplates.com/
• http://www.way2themes.com/
• http://foremefore.net
Upload Custom template
Search http://www.blogspot.com and sign in to the blogger account.
In the Left, click on 'theme'option. Click on the option 'backup / restore' in the right side. Firstly backup your previous theme. Now select xml file & upload template Check if your blog is showing a professional design by clicking on the View blog option.
Blogger favicon
In Blogger, favicon is a small icon, which is displayed in the address bar beside the domain name. In a way, this is a brand logo. Your blog with favicon seems to be a brand. You can click on the Layout option in Blogger. Up, you will see the option of favicon. Now you can upload your logo by clicking on the favicon option.
Buy a unique custom domain
Blogger provides you subdomain for example itecnomart.blogspot.com To remove blogspot extension, you must buy a domain name. The domain name is the unique address of the blog. It helps to gain visitors to the blog.A unique domain name is important for making professional blog.The custom domain name is essential for getting into the ranking.
This all are basic things to make professional blog.To make a professional blog, some knowledge of web designing is important.It is very important to edit the template after uploading a custom template. After uploading the template, your blog will look professional but adding pages, widgets, social links, author profile, labels, social share buttons, credit links, all have to be added. In the next post, you will see how to edit custom templates.
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