{"id":5108,"date":"2009-07-28T06:53:07","date_gmt":"2009-07-28T06:53:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.amitbhawani.com\/blog\/?p=5108"},"modified":"2010-09-30T22:10:11","modified_gmt":"2010-09-30T16:40:11","slug":"simple-blog-design-or-magazine-styles-whats-your-favorite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.amitbhawani.com\/blog\/simple-blog-design-or-magazine-styles-whats-your-favorite\/","title":{"rendered":"Simple Blog Design or Magazine Styles &#8211; What&#8217;s your Favorite"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have been planning to redesign my blogs and always this is the first question which comes to my mind and i felt its better to ask the blog readers on what kind of website designs they love and what is the structure that would make them read blogs regularly. Most blogs have different kind of styles, templates, looks and ideas and iam going to differentiate them into a few in order to get a better idea.<\/p>\n<p>Simple Blog Designs : These are the designs where you would find a blog with the lowest graphics but main focus given to the blogs content. A Minimalistic design with neat sidebar, header and footer. A simple logo on the top with a small advertisement in the header and a sidebar consisting of few latest posts and subscription options. These kind of designs may have 2 or 3 columns based on the themes width but overall would be really quick loading with the lowest use of graphics and more use of simplicity.<\/p>\n<p>Magazine Style Blog Designs : These designs would be normally found on newspaper kind of websites and blogs where atleast 25 posts are shown on the homepage on multiple columns and while you are on a single posts section you would find that the pages are stuffed with links and links all over the place. If a blog is having a big number of subscribers then magazine themes would suit them but again these are filled with stuff like related posts, related categories, twitter updates, most recent posts, most popular posts, monthly archieve and so on making the whole blog look like a complete magazine filled with everything.<\/p>\n<div>n<\/p>\n<div>\n\t<div class='democracy'>\n\t\t<strong class=\"poll-question\">What's your Favorite<\/strong>\n\t\t<div class='dem-results'>\n\t\t<form action='https:\/\/www.amitbhawani.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/democracy\/democracy.php' onsubmit='return dem_Vote(this)'>\n\t\t<ul>\n\t\t\t<li>\n\t\t\t\t\t<input type='radio' id='dem-choice-157' value='157' name='dem_poll_25' \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<label for='dem-choice-157'><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amitbhawani.com\/blog\/simple-blog-design-or-magazine-styles-whats-your-favorite\/\">Simple 2 Column Blog Design<\/a><\/label>\n\t\t\t<\/li>\n\t\t\t<li>\n\t\t\t\t\t<input type='radio' id='dem-choice-158' value='158' name='dem_poll_25' \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<label for='dem-choice-158'><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amitbhawani.com\/blog\/simple-blog-design-or-magazine-styles-whats-your-favorite\/\">Simple 3 Column Blog Design<\/a><\/label>\n\t\t\t<\/li>\n\t\t\t<li>\n\t\t\t\t\t<input type='radio' id='dem-choice-159' value='159' name='dem_poll_25' \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<label for='dem-choice-159'><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amitbhawani.com\/blog\/simple-blog-design-or-magazine-styles-whats-your-favorite\/\">Default WordPress Blog Design<\/a><\/label>\n\t\t\t<\/li>\n\t\t\t<li>\n\t\t\t\t\t<input type='radio' id='dem-choice-160' value='160' name='dem_poll_25' \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<label for='dem-choice-160'><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amitbhawani.com\/blog\/simple-blog-design-or-magazine-styles-whats-your-favorite\/\">Magazine Style Blog Design<\/a><\/label>\n\t\t\t<\/li>\n\t\t<\/ul>\n\t\t\t<input type='hidden' name='dem_poll_id' value='25' \/>\n\t\t\t<input type='hidden' name='dem_action' value='vote' \/>\n\t\t\t<input type='submit' class='dem-vote-button' value='Vote' \/>\n\t\t\t<a href='\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5108?dem_action=view&amp;dem_poll_id=25' onclick='return dem_getVotes(\"https:\/\/www.amitbhawani.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/democracy\/democracy.php?dem_action=view&amp;dem_poll_id=25\", this)' rel='nofollow' class='dem-vote-link'>View Results<\/a>\n\t\t<\/form>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Its generally upto you on what kind of design you would like, but iam making a small poll on what kind of design you would prefer reading. Whats your take on Simple Vs Magazine Style blog designs. Currently this blogs homepage is more towards a magazine look because it covers everything from the header to the footer and most of the blogs area is filled except the sidebar. Just check out our article on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amitbhawani.com\/blog\/best-designed-blogs\/\">best designed blogs<\/a> in order to find some really well designed blogs and let me know what kind of designs would you recommend me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been planning to redesign my blogs and always this is the first question which comes to my mind and i felt its better to ask the blog readers on what kind of website designs they love and what is the structure that would make them read blogs regularly. Most blogs have different kind [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[970],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-5108","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-web-blogging","7":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4890,"url":"https:\/\/www.amitbhawani.com\/blog\/apple-mac-wordpress-themes\/","url_meta":{"origin":5108,"position":0},"title":"Apple &#038; Mac alike WordPress Themes","author":"Amit Bhawani","date":"July 6, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"If you would have visited Apple.com, then iam sure you would have bookmarked the website atleast for the beautiful design. 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