New look

Posted on August 22, 2005 by Brigid Alverson

Hey, when someone’s right, they’re right. I refer to this post, 7 Mistakes for your First Week Blogging, which I wish I had seen last March. The very first mistake: “Don’t launch until you have a theme.” And I quote:

I can’t emphasize enough how strong the correlation is between failing in the first week and having the default WordPress theme.

Oops! I beat the odds and made it through the first week, but the point is well taken. I toyed with some designs when I first started the blog, but ended up getting distracted and wandering off to something else. After that, I just focused on the content, not the look.
No more. We have a look. It’s an evolving look, with plenty of work left, but at least it’s not a bland stretch of blue. And we even followed another piece of advice from the same post, “Make your own header image.”
Now I need to work harder on the “Don’t skip entries” part.
Thanks to Laura “Tegan” Gjovaag at Bloggity-Blog-Blog-Blog for putting me on to this bit of good advice. As Instapundit says, read the whole thing.

About Brigid Alverson

Brigid Alverson has been reading comics since she was 4. After earning an MFA in printmaking, she headed to New York to become a famous artist but ended up working with words instead of pictures, first as a book editor and later as a newspaper reporter. She started MangaBlog to keep track of her daughters’ reading habits and now covers manga, comics and graphic novels as a freelancer for School Library Journal, Publishers Weekly Comics Week, Comic Book Resources, the Barnes & Noble Sci-Fi & Fantasy Blog, and Robot 6. She also edits the Good Comics for Kids blog at School Library Journal. Now settled in the outskirts of Boston, Brigid is married to a physicist and has two daughters.
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One Response to New look

  1. Kurt says:
    August 22, 2005 at 6:51 pm

    Thanks for the feedback. I’m glad people are finding this useful, and I just hope that it helps out a few bloggers that are in the position you were in. For what it’s worth, glad you made it through the first week no matter what theme you were using. Keep up the good work.

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