Blog-Tipping: Aberrant Absurdity

Posted in Blogging by Douglas Karr Friday, July 6th at 11:20 am

Tipping Adam Teece has a blog that’s well on it’s way. In analyzing his raw HTML, you know he’s been listening to a lot of great advice – hopefully here .

Your Blog Tips

Your main posts are getting crunched into your sidebar. If found that if you adjust your primary div to 480px on your Stylesheet, it provides a balance of whitespace on the left and right of your posts, making it much easier to read.
#primary {
float:left;
padding:10px;
position:relative;
width:480px;
}
I like your Magnolia feed on your sidebar. Keep in mind that since it’s Javascript, it’s not going to get crawled as part of your site content, though. That’s a bummer – since most of the topics you’re interested would help with Search Optimizing your site. You would be better suited to put a Feed Aggregator in your sidebar that points to your mag.nolia RSS feed.
This can be done with a WordPress plugin or you can also code it manually if you’d like using a PHP aggregator such as Magpie.
It’s hard to read your footer text since it’s gray on a green backdrop. I would change it to white in your stylesheet:
#footer {
clear:both;
color:#fff;
margin:0pt auto;
padding:0px 0pt;
text-align:center;
}

Additional tip: you can short cut a CSS color by cutting it in half. Browsers will simply replicate the other half – so #fff actually equals #ffffff and #B85 = #B85B85). Optimizing your CSS will load your page faster for a new visitor.