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Blog turn on's and turn off's
What turns you on and off about a blog layout, template, design, content, etc.
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Permalink Reply by Good Girl Gone Blog on -
For some reason entirely centered blog posts drive me insane. I hate reading text in awkwardly centered paragraphs!
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Permalink Reply by Carina the Blogarina on -
me to!
If its a quote or a short poem it's fine, but an entire post? what's up with that?
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Permalink Reply by Susie Q on -
Haha, I thought I was the only one who gets annoyed by this! Good to know that there's other people as well!
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Permalink Reply by Carina the Blogarina on
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I like blogs that have a clean, nice design and who write posts that are honest so that you can get a feel of the person who is writing them. I also enjoy photos, but not to many.
It turn me off a blog if I feel that the design is messy, or that there is just two much going on. If the color scheme makes it hard to read on the eyes, then that's no good either. Also if they become just about telling what you did that day, just a report with no refections then that's pretty dull to. I'm not going to come back to a blog because the design is pretty if the content bores me..
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Permalink Reply by Art Ravels on -
MUSIC! I hate having to listen to someone's music. Why can't the music automatically be OFF so you can turn it on if you want?
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Permalink Reply by PrettyPrincessXo on -
I look at layout, if it's really cluttered I stear clear! I need something eye catching.
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Permalink Reply by Jessie May Kezele on -
Unedited writing is my biggest turn off. If I see a bunch of typos I won't stick around long.
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Permalink Reply by Allison on -
I don't like small text, on a black background, with anything glittering and flashing.
I also hate it when people don't type properly or correct their spelling mistakes (I make spelling mistakes, but I usually catch them and fix them).
I read a blog where most of the titles had typos or spelling mistakes and the blog was a few months old. You can go back and edit! Take some pride in your writing.
Also, I like paragraphs. I'll stop reading if the person has just posted a huge clump of text. The thing about writing for the internet is that your eye gets distracted easier than it does when reading a book or magazine. Small paragraphs are generally better.
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Permalink Reply by TheStepster on -
Yes, paragraphs. I'm allergic to uber long neverending text. Paragraphs are beautiful. Or so I'd like to think.
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Permalink Reply by Nic Lake on -
Turn ons:
Pictures (I'm a kid at heart)
Being real
Humor, especially when you're laughing at your own life/stuff that's happened.
Turn offs:
Terrible layouts/ads/too much stuff everywhere
Not using paragraphs. Seriously, if you write either in one large block, or 1 sentence per line, I might hate you
Bad spelling
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Permalink Reply by Nel on -
My blog turns ons are: a nice, easy-on-the-eyes layout and attention grabbing content (funny/intelligent posts, inspiring artwork etc), and an 'about me' that makes me come to the conclusion that the blogger is a cool person :)
Blog turns off: Poor grammar, black background/white writing, autoplay
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Permalink Reply by Mel Cotton on -
If the layout is really messy and there's too much going on, that's a huge turn-off for me. Like in blogger, if there are things going on on both sides of the main text, and bits in between posts (like links to related posts after each post) they really turn me off.
Nice and simple.
I also hate decorative background images. They remind me off those backgrounds we all used to use back when we were on Myspace. Very unprofessional looking. That's all personal taste though.
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