Comments on: Time For A Blog Makeover… Any Suggestions?

By: TEFL.net

TEFL.net — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 17:49:52 +0000

Your blog looks great to me! Interesting comments here.

By: Zumrut Bozbey

Zumrut Bozbey — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 19:45:38 +0000

Dear Burcu,
I appreciate what you do here..You create amazing blogs and write helpful articles. I thought the following link might give you some ideas with the makeover.

http://smartlifeblog.com/12-service-providers-you-can-outsource-your-blog-design-to/

See you tomorrow:))

By: Sue Lyon-Jones

Sue Lyon-Jones — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 06:36:13 +0000

As others have said, I think content is the key; although having said this, I also think your blog looks perfectly fine the way is is.

If you do decide to go ahead and change the look of it, there are some nice free WordPress templates available here:

http://su.pr/1vNlbg

best wishes,

Sue

By: burcuakyol

burcuakyol — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 22:53:13 +0000

Valuable advice from an experience blogger:-) Thank you Karenne! I agree with you and decided to maintain my blog on edublogs and learn about self hosting at the same time…

All the best,

Burcu

By: burcuakyol

burcuakyol — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 22:45:41 +0000

Dear Kirsten,

Thank you for the comment. It’s a good idea to maintain the blog and slowly build the new one as it is a trial and error process:-)Sometimes painful…but fun!

All the best,

Burcu

By: burcuakyol

burcuakyol — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 21:54:14 +0000

Hi Aniya,

Thanks for the comment! I’ll definitely get in touch with you when I feel ready to self host my blog. I think I should practice by myself for a while

All the best,

Burcu

By: burcuakyol

burcuakyol — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 20:45:49 +0000

Dear Nik,

Thanks for the comment. I’m happy to hear that you read my blog. I totally agree with you that it is the content that makes a blog worth visiting. Maybe I should be focusing on writing worth-reading entries rather than changing the look of my blog for the time being. At least until I have regular followers as Karenne suggests.

All the best,

Burcu

By: KirstenWinkler

KirstenWinkler — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 18:56:06 +0000

All comes down to your provider and how fast your database is. If you have a database on your own are on a shared one.

There are also some plugins from WordPress where you can preload content etc to make the blog faster.

By: Nik Peachey

Nik Peachey — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 16:11:53 +0000

Just a quick comment or question about WordPress / edubloggers. One thing that I really like about WordPress is that they have some really nice template designs, but what has always put me off them is that I find WordPress blogs really slow to laod! I’m not really sure if this is a problem due to my location here in Morocco or if they are generally much slower??????

Anyone had similar experiences?
Best

Nik

By: Karenne Sylvester

Karenne Sylvester — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 15:02:09 +0000

Hi ya,

Just read Nik’s comments. I didn`t go the self-hosted route as yet either as I think it’s a good idea to develop a strong readership first (based on following your content) as losing the edublogs.org listing will make u less attractive to google.

However once you’ve got a regular following, say 5K users per month, you can inform them of change without losing the stats or PR.