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Hey, Is Your Blog’s Layout Just Fine?

Hey, Is Your Blog’s Layout Just Fine?

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This post isn’t really about the blog’s theme or the how beautiful the design is. We all know people who can spend can have the “best” theme while people who don’t have the money can settle for the average. The post that I am going to tackle is about blog design resolution of your website/blog. Why resolution? Well the layout of your blog, might it be the best or the worst, highly depends on the monitor’s resolution of your readers. In short, good design is useless if your readers still have to scroll horizontally just to view every part of your content.

So to kick things, this is how MelvinBlog looks in my laptop (1280X800)  (click for larger view):

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While on most computers w/c have the 1024X768 screen resolution, it does show like this:

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What you would notice is the fact that in my laptop, there is still a space both in the left and right side part while in most screen resolutions, there’s no margin anymore and the content is like stretched. And still it doesn’t look annoying at all!

The main point here is that don’t try to base the design of your blog in your wide screen computer’s resolution. In a certain survey about screen resolutions, it’s been proven that  a lot of people are still using the old fashioned 800X600 and 1024X768 screen resolution. In the end it just means that don’t decide based on your personal preference. Remember that our readers’ user experience is still the one that counts the most. We, liking the look of our blog is no match against them, not finding it good enough.

So, what does my blog look like in your computer? Scannable enough or completely crappy? How about you, have you already asked other people on what they think about the design of your blog based on their own screen’s resolution? Or maybe you haven’t even considered resolutions on carving out your design? Hmm..

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  6. ur blog looks great in my monitor’s resolution (1920 x 1080). It’s best to base our layout in a 800 x 600 resolution, or create a fluid layout nalang, para mas maganda.

    Pero basta naka base ka na sa 800 x 600 or higher ng konti, pwede na! 🙂

    You can also use multiple CSS layouts with conditional tags and some javascript. Para pag ibang browser, ibang CSS then kukunin nya. Pag ganito ang resolution, ganitong CSS. Pag ganyan, ganitong CSS. Para sa lahat ng browser maganda tingnan. ^_^
    .-= Jehzeel Laurente´s last blog ..What is an Influential Blogger? =-.

  9. Cool stuff. If you use Google Analytics, you can look under the visitors tab, browser capabilities, and see what screen resolution most of your users have.

    On my site, 25% of my users have a resolution 1024×768 or less. Obviously, that leaves 75% that view the site at a greater than that. 25% of my readers is probably too much to “ignore,” but at a certain point, it might be worth it to design for the majority and not the minority.
    .-= Blake @ Props Blog Ideas´s last blog ..How To Efficiently Use Your Time Reading Blogs =-.

  16. It is true, the screen resolution 800 x 600 pixels has signficantly decreased since July 2005. More and more internet users choose for screen resolution 1024 x 768 or higher.
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  19. on my laptop its looking very fine like the one u showed on your first pic
    and yea thats a very common yet very major thing to be kept in mind for our visitors

  22. i believe my theme has that conditional tag for different browser.

    what do you mean fluid layout? 😀 that’s something new to me..

  25. I do think that layout is very important. At least to me. Sometimes when I see some websites that look like created in the 90’s or texts are hard to read, I just leave.

  26. Definitely layout plays an important role in attracting readers. And not just the design of the layout perse but also its compatibility to different browsers whether be it firefox, internet explorer (different versions), and netscape.
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