Imagine you get a free one-year subscription for Newsletter A or Newsletter B; of either you should choose. The choice is yours. You can't pick both of them. You have no prior experience with either and you have no way to decide other than looking at the cover page. The thing is one Newsletter has a kick-ass logo design and the other one is just simple!
And just by looking at it, you'll probably choose the one with the good design, right? Now what if we can apply the same thing to a blog? Just think you have good content and a good blog design. But you need to say out loud 'I am a professional!' to the average site visitor, am I right? Why not do it with a professional blog header design? I mean, that's the first thing that a visitor sees in the blog. And probably the first impression of the visitor would be based on your blog header right?
In my blog ROCKFUSE, people had been telling me that the success can be largely attributed to my blog header. Which I believe is quite true. I tend to go out of my way to get some designs done so as a result, my blog has the potential to stand out from the rest.
It's psychological. When people see premium blog designs or professional blog headers, they automatically brand your blog, 'great blog!'. (Yes, with an exclamation mark!) Much like you wanted that subscription of the Newsletter with the kick-ass design.
And if you blog header does the talking about professionalism for you, then, you score!
Of course! If you don't have any design experience at all, and if you're not willing to spend and get it done, probably you should ignore it. But if you do, then why not make use of that and have a good blog header, and maybe a good logo design? It can probably drive a visitor's gut feeling into subscribing to your blog.
On the other hand, people like Steve Pavlina had been highly successful with just a simple mention of their domain name in the blog header. But I think that he could have enjoyed more from his blog if he considered having a cool blog header design.
Having a blog header designed by yourself is not that hard. Actually, with an application such as Adobe Photoshop, you can whoop up a quality header. But there are always alternatives. If you lack such designing skills, you can check out free blog header collections like this and build on it. It's always easy when someone does the hard work for you right?
Nadeesha Cabral, |
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