A Place of My Own is a blog written by Kelly, who blogged anonymously for many years until she decided it was time to reveal her true self and share her family life.
First Impressions
We love the title of your blog, it’s intimate and timeless.
The first thing that struck us about your blog was the large amount of white space. Don’t be scared to experiment with colours and images in the header and background.
Header and Menu Bar
Have you thought about giving your header a makeover? A bold, eye-catching and professional header draws readers in and often leads new visitors to stick around for longer.
Top tip: Many parent bloggers use family photographs in their headers, a lovely and personal touch. A collage of your gorgeous kids could work well. If you are not a huge fan of photographs in headers, why not play around with fonts and colours to create more impact?
Sidebar
It’s great that you have your subscribers’ box at the top, but the text “Get my posts sent straight to your inbox” is hard to read — either choose a bigger font or leave it out.
Your sidebar is rather busy at the moment and could do with some streamlining. Why not do a light edit of the badges? Also the Categories search box needs resizing as it’s spilling over into the background of the template.
Top Tip: Maybe you could add a few more categories in your top menu and reduce the ones in your sidebar? One last suggestion is to use larger Follow Me buttons. Don’t be shy… if you want people to follow you, let them know!
Main Content
From reading this blog, we can see that you are passionate about taking photographs. It would enhance your posts greatly if you made your photos much bigger; as the little ones are easy to overlook.
Top Tip: Think about making your font larger and breaking up the paragraphs into smaller chunks, so that your lovely writing is easier for the reader to digest.
Final Thoughts
A well-written blog, full of useful posts and thought-stirring ideas and we can tell that you put your heart into your writing. We hope the above tips will help you take your blog even further.
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Kelly says
Thanks so much. Interesting to hear about the white space – it is something that I have been drawn to over the years but actually I am a much more colourful person! I change my blog header every year or so and went for something simple this time but I don’t feel it reflects me too well.
Thank you – I will enjoy playing with my blog and making some changes.