Aug 10, 2014 / Community Pool

Community Pool

The Community Pool is now open! Duck-shaped life savers: optional.

Have you just published a new post and are dying for some feedback? Did you recently start your blog and could use some layout or design advice from your more seasoned peers?

Tap into the wisdom of The Daily Post blogging community and leave your question here in the comments. Others can then click through and offer input either on your site, or in the comments here (feel free to indicate which you’d prefer).

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  • While you’re not required to, we encourage everyone who requests feedback to also reply to at least one or two other bloggers who need some help. Spread the love!
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  1. Hello, my blog is mostly about how i talk to my piano students to discipline and motivate them. I’ve been very successful with teaching young children to be well behaved and learn well, while having fun, in solo piano class. I’m new to writing and i think my blog needs a bit of work to appeal to an audience other than my students and their parents. Would love some ideas on how to improve it.
    Thanks in advance…

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    1. Hi Eliza,

      I think that your site is excellent in terms of content, very useful and interesting. I have a 4-year old boy and I love to motivate him to learn piano. Your blog will be very handy, I believe!

      I didn’t see your old layout, but this one works fine. It’s easy to read and elegant. The only thing I’d improve if I were you is the picture, but just to make it black and white, increasing a bit the contrast.

      Would you like to try it out? I took the liberty of edited it in Photoshop for you. I think you can download it from here.

      Does that work for you?

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      1. Hello Pati, thanks so much for your comment. And also for the edited logo – it does look rather nice. Will download it when I’m home on the computer.

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  3. Hi, I just finished my about page [http://patimonteroen.wordpress.com/about/] and I’d love to have some feedback, especially because English is not my native language. Thank you!

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