Blog & Website Design for Non Designers (How to make your blog look incredible without spending)

Sep 10, 2020
2 min read

Updated: Oct 23, 2020

Want to make an eye-catching website? Then follow my tips to be successful!!!

Use a high-quality and free website maker. (7 great website builders)

2. Have a mobile-optimized theme.

If you are in the process of starting a blog, make sure you get yourself a theme that looks good on mobile. You can test it out on your own smartphone to see how it looks or use this free tool that will show you how it will appear. Other website editors such as Wix can let you edit on mobile and desktop.

3. Use Images

To photoshop and create your logo or past newsletters...Say HELLO to Canva.com.

Canva is your new best friend when it comes to making your blog look great.

4. Remove Flash / Sidebar Affiliate Banners

If you want to use banners to promote a product you are trying to sell, then go into Canva.com, create a banner that fits the theme of your blog (think colors, fonts; sizes, etc), and add that image instead of the banner. You might like banners and they even might be making you money, that’s awesome; in that case, keep them for now. If you have banners but you are not seeing the results you want (which probably is the case), I suggest you remove them completely or replace them with an image you create then link it to your offer or review page.

5. Focus On Getting Comments

I’ve come to realize that the posts that do have comments are the ones that get higher search rankings and much more traffic as well. If you are a new blogger, you won’t be seeing many organic comments come in but I assure you, once you get popular and start getting traffic, you will be receiving comments. Is there no way around it? Luckily there is. You can sign up to Wealthy Affiliate and get comments from there using the SiteComments feature.

6. Add a Favicon

A favicon is that very tiny image that appears beside your blog’s name in a browsers bar.

How To Install A “Favicon”.

If you have a premium theme you probably have that feature set up in your theme’s customization setting but you still have to go in and add the image.

If your theme doesn’t have this option available, you can download this plugin that will add it for you.

As for what image to use; you can either add your blog’s logo or get a free icon image from here. Just browse through the categories and pick one that fits your blog’s contafterallent.

It’s a very easy, simple, and small thing to do but I assure you; you do not want to have a blog without a favicon.

I personally think a favicon is important but the choice is up to you, after all, I don't have one either.