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Design is plays a key role for any blog. It can increase or decrease the value of the blog. “Look” is first thing which helps in dragging visitors to your site .Let us take an example suppose if I buy very costly shoes and wear it or if you have good body then it doesn’t matter, if you meet a new person then first he look at our face then he will look our bottom. He doesn’t loot at our feet at first glance. First impression is the best impression. That impression can be possible with good design. So the design is essential for bringing best look for the blog.

When it comes to blog design you will be confused what you have to do to get the perfect design? But there will no confusion if you are perfect in html and web designing then you can design the blog your self. If you are not perfect then you can hire some one to do it. The blog can be designed based on your budget. It is as follows:

1) Do you have enough money to design your new blog ?

2) Install a free theme or install a free theme by making some customizations to it.

If you want unique blog design and you are ready to spend money then you can go for option one. But if you don’t have enough money then you can go for option two.

There are many web design services online you can order your design based upon your requirements. You can order your blog to be designed there. The following things should be kept in mind before you start designing.But before designing your blog just make sure how you want it to be?The below things might give you some sought of idea.

-> If the pages are visually appealing and if they provide convenient navigation, they are likely to be visited by more users. A poor layout will discourage people from spending too much time on the blog.

-> Ask you’r self who the intended audience is. Are you writing for children, business executives, retired persons or a general audience? Knowing who you are targeting will greatly influence your design.

-> How many graphics do you intend to include do you want to impress your audience? Remember, graphics take long time to load. Google will take time to crawl the graphics loaded blog.

-> Do you want the blog with two sidebars with two one left and right side with content in center? Or do you want one sidebar with content section on one side of the blog? Just decide for yourself. Most of the bloggers today are opting for one sidebar with content section in one of the side.

For the people who want their unique and new design:-

If you want new design then you can discuss the things how you want it to be on your blog? They will take your wanted things in to consideration before designing the blog. It will cost some where $1000 to $2000 to have your own unique ,new blog design. The blog design services like Unique blog designs,Sharpwitdesigns , Weborithm etc charge this fee.

Problogger ,Johnchow ,Shoemoney and Zacjohnson,  have got designed their blog at blog designed services. But they got the blog designed after being successful at blogging. So they have done better things.

For the people who can’t afford to get designed their blog:

For the people who can’t afford to spend too much money on design then they can download free themes online. They are lot of free themes online. We can even make some customizations to the theme if we want like changing color or any other. I have bought free theme which is very popular which is called UBD money maker theme. It was designed by Unique blog designs and given free to bloggers. They are many other bloggers who are using this theme some made customizations and some did not. Examples of them Webtrafficroi, Advertisespace .

They are also ready made themes available we can buy those themes. It doesn’t cost too much to buy those themes. They are priced between $50- $100. We can buy ready made themes here at Johncow, Ultimate Blogging Theme , Popularity Theme .

Blogsmartly , The University Kid and The net fool use the above mentioned themes.At last you have to decide which way you are going to choose .

All of the readers I wish you merry Christmas. I am one day late because i was busy with house work.This blog has not been successful with out you. Not only the readers of the blog I wish every one merry Christmas .Hope they have happy and safe Christmas. Hope you and your family have a joyful and good life.Have a fun filling 12 day christmas.

As the generation moves on every day a new blog tool is launched to add to our blog. It helps us monitoring the blog activities better.

Some of blog tools I use are mentioned below. These tools I use daily for my blog.

Traffic Statistics:-

I use statcounter (free one) and google analytics. Google analytics is better one than any other traffic monitoring tool. It even has the ability to track down google adsense clicks.Previously I use to use mybloglog which also tracks adsense clicks. It tracks only few clicks in free version, to track all the adsense clicks we have to upgrade.

Blog editors:-

I don’t use blog editors but I am planning to use scribefire which is free to use. It is simple to understand and use. They are many blog editors like ecto, blogjet which we have to buy to use them. Qumana is free to use.

Plugins:-

This is big list of plugins. I will list my plugins in separate post.

I would like to know what blog tools you use.It would be interesting to know what blog tools others use.

Some of the key factors should be kept in mind before choosing the domain name. By keeping the factors in mind we can avoid confusion and get clear idea about choosing domain name.

Why you want your own domain name?

We have been successful in making money online using free blogs. If I am not successful then wouldn’t have started this blog. We are blogging since two years through free blogs. We need to establish our own identity, branding and maintain professionalism. Having own domain increases the branding of product, business, person etc. We need to start to our own domain because we got to reach more and more readers to show how we make money online which is not possible through free blogs.

Goals and Objectives:-

What is the goal of your blog? Are you going to achieve some thing through this blog?Are you starting the blog for professionals, young people or for anything else?Do you want to achieve financial freedom and show how it can be possible? Just be clear in front of your audience.

Did the Domain name match with your content?

If you choose the domain name as blogging experiment and you write about any other thing, it would be great turn off for the readers. The content should reflect the domain of the blog. Most of the domain names reflect the content in the blog. It would help the readers to recognize it very well.

Length Of Domain name:-

Readers will find the short domain very easy to remind. If the domain name is too long then it would be difficult to remember. It is very difficult to find shorter ones today. The risk of choosing bigger domain name is if we mistype then it would return any other blog. Internet is much bigger and so many blogs are live we are not alone. Choosing keyword domain name is good for SE .

Dot com domain or any other domain?

Most people like to choose the domain .com and they are powerful, universal. In the sense it is not true, on internet everything has some place to reside. .Com has been used regularly so most people use it because it is universal one. We are not going to discuss this issue in depth further. We can also use the .net, .org or .info as domain name.

Collect The Opinion Of others:-

If you are too much confused about the domain name you want to choose then first ask your friend about what domain name to choose? It would help us choose the right domain name easily because they can give you some sort of idea and suggestions. Opinion of others is important and it counts. We have to check how our domain name looks for other people as it can look good for us and bad to other people. Different regions, different cultures and different people have different opinion on the domain name. It helps us choose the better one than an unsuitable one.

Extension of Domains:-

If we don’t get the domain name you are looking for then it is better to choose another one but don’t choose any extension for the one you looked for like numbers, The power of the domain will be lost if we get any extension of domain.

Already Used Domain Names:-

Some people don’t use the domain names but they just register it so that it might be useful for them in future. They don’t use the domain but we can get them by interacting with them, with the help of an agent you buy your favorite domain by paying little more money. I tried this one before but later I found the one I want. Here we want www.bloggingstreet.com is not used by anyone but it re-directs to http://www.relationstreet.com/ . So nobody is using the domain name.

And some spammers use some domain names and sell them after using it. The domain names might be slapped by google. So it is better to check the history of domain before buying it.

Don’t get domain and hosting only at one place. If you bought domain at www.namecheap.com then bring hosting at www.bluehost.com or www.hostgator.com It is recommended to get our domain at www.namecheap.com or any other registrar because if we register at domain registrar then we will be the only owner of the domain. If we bring domain and hosting at same place then we are not the owner of the domain instead the hosting company. We can transfer the domain only after three months, this has happened with me. So it is better to get your domain at domain registrar directly.

Secure Multiple Domains:-

Suppose if we don’t get www.bloggingstreet.com then we can try www.bloggingstreet.net .Who knows the .net will also be not available in future. It is better to secure wanted multiple domains at once.