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When it comes to designing your blog, your mission is to put together the best blog design for you and your readers. What works for one website may be great, but it doesn’t necessarily mean the exact same design details will work for someone else.
It’s best to understand how the different pieces and parts of a blog design work together to create a place on the web that is uniquely you.
Blog Design Tips
Over the past few weeks, we’ve covered the different elements that go into great design, breaking down the anatomy of the perfect blog.
Today, we’re taking this information one step further and creating a visual summary of how all these details work together.
Each section of the graphic pertains to a post on design we’ve recently published, including:
- Why header design matters
- Understanding how to choose colors for your blog
- Where you can find free fonts
- How to best utilize your blog footer
- Adding social media icons to your blog
- Setting up your blog’s feed using Feedburner
- Secrets to working successfully with a blog designer
FREE Download
Why stop at simply pinning our basics of blog design graphic when you can download it to your computer absolutely FREE?
As an added bonus, we embedded links to all of the relevant posts we’ve published explaining each section of a blog. It is a beautiful, clickable summary…all for you.
Go ahead and download now!
Last month we created a checklist on how to start a blog. Go ahead and click the link to download for free!
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Awesome tips !! seriously !
thanks !
Hi there! Thank you for your blog and the instructions you give! I hope to have time to implement this info soon, so overwhelming! I too cannot DL the pdf. I did copy it to my PC as a png (the only option I had to save the pic).
Thanks, Tif
Oops! You came across a broken link on The SITS Girls, Tif.
Here is the URL to the free printable you were looking for on the Anatomy of a Perfect Blog Design:
http://www.thesitsgirls.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/anatomy-of-a-blog.pdf
Thanks for letting us know! And happy holidays. 🙂
I too cannot download the PDF. I’ve tried downloading the plugin for Firefox and tried using Safari instead. Neither work. I just get redirected to the forum.
Oops! You came across a broken link on The SITS Girls.
Here is the URL to the free printable you were looking for on the Anatomy of a Perfect Blog Design:
http://www.thesitsgirls.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/anatomy-of-a-blog.pdf
Thanks for letting us know!
I have tried to download the free PDF file but I can’t get it. I was using google chrome and now internet explore. Each time they go to catorgizes of blog design and no pdf opens.
I’m trying and having the same issue. The link is going to a forum and not a pdf 🙁
Oops! You came across a broken link on The SITS Girls, Meg.
Here is the URL to the free printable you were looking for on the Anatomy of a Perfect Blog Design:
http://www.thesitsgirls.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/anatomy-of-a-blog.pdf
Thanks for letting us know!
I am running into the same problem.
Oops! You came across a broken link on The SITS Girls, Kristy.
Here is the URL to the free printable you were looking for on the Anatomy of a Perfect Blog Design:
http://www.thesitsgirls.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/anatomy-of-a-blog.pdf
Thanks for letting us know!
All fixed now, Cody.
Here is the URL to the free printable on the anatomy of a perfect blog design from The SITS Girls:
http://www.thesitsgirls.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/anatomy-of-a-blog.pdf
THANKS!
Love, love, love this wonderful advice 🙂
I am sorry but I can’t seem to find the document to download – anatomy of the perfect blog
I can’t seem to find the download for the anatomy of the perfect blog –
Oops! You came across a broken link on The SITS Girls, Michelle.
Here is the URL to the free printable you were looking for on the Anatomy of a Perfect Blog Design:
http://www.thesitsgirls.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/anatomy-of-a-blog.pdf
Hope that helps!
Hi, I was trying to download the printable but it keeps taking me to the comment forum. I tried to sign up for membership but the button will not submit. Is there another way to get this printable?
It keeps sending me to the forum as well, and I’d really like the pdf!
Apologies that you could not find the printable you were looking for on The SITS Girls, Sarah.
The broken link is now fixed.
Here is the URL to the anatomy of a perfect blog design printable:
http://www.thesitsgirls.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/anatomy-of-a-blog.pdf
All fixed now, Latisha.
You can find the printable on the anatomy of a perfect blog design here:
http://www.thesitsgirls.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/anatomy-of-a-blog.pdf
I love it when you do printable tips like this! I always print them out and out them in my blog planner, that way I have them when I need them. :0)
Thank you for all of your encouragement and great tips! I’m off to check out your links…and to find some sweet script for a wonderful current project!!!
Happy weekend,
: )
Julie M.
I have tried to download this multiple times (using three different browsers), but the link goes to this page http://www.thesitsgirls.com/forums/
Any ideas?
Finally found the way to make it work —
right click on the image – then “save image as” instead of “saving link as” (like I would do for a pdf file).
Also to clarify (it is the “click here to download…” link that is broken).
This is a wonderful site – I have spent way to many hours on here today!
SO sorry that you had trouble with this download, Belind.
At long last, it is finally fixed:
http://www.thesitsgirls.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/anatomy-of-a-blog.pdf
Great tips, I am about to embark on a new logo, just have to find the time. lol
Busy Mom and Busy Bee Worker, thank the heavens coffee is abundant and hugs from little one keep me grounded.
Love how you showcased the tips – great way for people to relate to it. Colors and fonts always need to be tested too and to sure they are big enough. Thanks for sharing.
Sorry I meant thank you*. My head is still foggy today.
As always that you so much for the great tips!
Fabulous! Everything in one place, and it’s great to be able to see it all together. 🙂
Great tips, and timely too. I feel like I need to completely overhaul the design of my blog before we launch an online magazine this coming Spring (in September)
🙂 Hazel
Great tips Francesca!!!!
I look forward to adding this tips to my blog 🙂
Again! Terrific tips. There’s sooo much to do to improve.
Thank you!!!
Great printables thanks for sharing. I’ve been working on a new blog after a loooong break and have been rusty. Wish I saw this about five hours ago! 🙂
I look forward to implementing many of these tips. Thanks for sharing such great information with your readers!
so cute! love it
Thank you for this printable. It will come in handy!!
Thanks for the really awesome printable! I have a question (and maybe you’ve answered this) but–what font do you use on as the header font for this blog? The scripty one. I think it would be perfect for some invitations I’m designing for my daughter’s Cinderella birthday party…
TIA!
~Lynsey
hello…did you get the name of the font..the one that says font…love the S…thankyou lee x.
Thank you ! I am going to print this and put it in my blogging notebook.
im currently working on the theme i have up right now and i think i have all this stuff 😛 still needs a lot of work though, but im no pro so it might take time.
Thank you for all the wonderful advice! I have learned so much from SITS last month. Could not have done it without you!
Thanks for all of the tips. I’ve been working on my blog design a lot these last few days. While I liked what I had created before, I didn’t feel that it reflected where my blog is going. I’ve since updated my header, and have made better use of my footer. Wouldn’t have done any of it without SITS!