Everything Under the Sun

Blog author: Lanie Yu

the assignments' blog

Hello, interesting blog topic - I don't think I've read one about academics yet.

I like the layout and everything looks very clean. The tabs at the top caught my attention at first. There's a loner, one tab below the rest, is it possible to divide all the tabs between the two lines? If possible maybe you could decrease the amount of tabs there and just have the necessary ones.

Theres no RSS subscription button at the top of the page. It is lower down and all I could find was the email subscription. That's a good start but it needs to be higher up, the very top thing, you want people to see it first. You have a lot of widgets in your sidebar, try to organize and or clear out the unnecessary ones. The problem with some of the widgets is that they have ads in them put there by the widgets creator, so you're making someone else money by having it there. Only use widgets that relate to your readers.

Your posts really stick out well in this theme, the red border helps them pop out and grab your attention, that is nice. You have a few too many posts on the front page, try three or four posts at the most. This is a good number because it keeps thing clean and clutter free but also allows a good chance for readers to find something interesting.

You might want to consider placing a blog description above your posts. Just a couple sentences telling visitors what you're blogging about. One thing that would really help is to break your posts up a little more with paragraphs. When the text is separated and broken up more it helps readers digest it all and it's more interesting to look at.

Looks nice, keep it up.

http://lanieyu.blogspot.com/