I Gave My Blog Page a Refresh
I recently refreshed my blog page on my website and I must say I really like it!
Here’s what it looked like before:
It’s not bad aesthetically speaking, but it wasn’t really practical. It was basically just a gallery of images and blog titles with no real organization. If a visitor wanted to get a feel for my writing and read my latest blog post then it would suffice. But if they wanted to dive deeper and gain insight from my previous posts, from years before, it wasn’t possible. Unfortunately, Squarespace only lets you display 20 blog entries at a time so in actuality there was no real way for my visitors to scroll through past blog posts even if they wanted to…unless I did something about it.
So that’s what I did.
Here’s what the new page looks like:
Here’s what I changed:
I added a search bar so visitors can search for a relevant topic.
I added a blog category section where visitors can click on a category if they want to see specific posts about that topic. Luckily I have been categorizing my posts by topic and tagging my blogs with keywords since the beginning. If you aren’t already doing this, I highly recommend it. It will help a ton if you ever want to organize your blog in the future.
I chose to display only 9 posts at a time. Now that visitors can easily search for topics that are relevant to them I didn’t want to bombard the page with too much information.
That’s it! What do you think?
