Jun 15, 2015 / Community Pool

Community Pool

The place for advice, feedback, and friendly blogging conversation.

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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).

To help us make the Community Pool a productive space for discussion, here are some tips you might find useful:

TIP: To keep from losing your place in the comment thread while you visit others’ blogs, right-click on a link to open it in a new tab or window.

  • 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!
  • The Community Pool comments section can get quite big — and starting duplicate threads doesn’t help. Thanks for not posting the same question more than once! We tend to delete duplicate comments asking for feedback on the same post.
  • If you’re looking for quality feedback, be as specific as you can. Questions about a particular post tend to draw more comments than ones about entire blogs. Questions about specific design elements are more likely to be answered than ones asking for general layout advice.
  • We discourage leaving links without a more substantive message or question. These are often overlooked by other bloggers, and we frequently remove them to make the comment reading experience smoother.
  • Please keep all comments civil and constructive. The idea is to have fun — it’s a pool, after all!
  • When leaving comments, please remember not to add your blog’s url as your signature. It’s kinda spammy: after all, your handle links directly to your blog.
  • If you haven’t looked at our Commenting Guidelines in a while, now might be a good time.
  • No running on the deck.
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    1. Nice. Excellent, well written content. I feel like everything I’m reading is important. If anything, a bit more imagery and Read More tags to keep things interesting. Your About page made me laugh.

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  9. Trying to build a website that is vibrant, but I want to limit the excess. Can anyone give me pointers on my site? (You will be redirected to my new site that Im working on). Thanks!

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    1. Your photography is gorgeous. That theme is perfectly picked. Just got a new follower.

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  12. I just had a look at your blog and I love your writing style! Your new post is beautiful and I can definitely relate. I just gave you a follow 🙂

    xx misscaly.wordpress.com

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    1. You could start trying to add tags to your post, also placing them in categories for organizational purposes. It would be easier for reading to browse through topics that may not be fairly recent. You can add a tag cloud or a category drop down list. Tagging in general will help when people are searching for random thing.

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    2. Agreed, tagging and categorizing are huge. I would also recommend breaking your giant blocks of text into shorter, more readable and friendly-looking paragraphs (Some posts appear to be bigger ‘offenders’ than others).

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    1. Very good, but could benefit from a bit of spell-checking. Minor mistakes here and there; probably the worst offense I found was from the second paragraph on “The Weave”: “This comic is still in its early stages and things are slowly starting to be reviled.” … I think that last word should have been ‘revealed’, two totally different words with different meanings.
      Following ’cause geek culture and stuff. Also, your avatar looks like something out of Code Lyoko and I like it.
      (Psst, check out Jeph Jacques’ webcomic, Questionable Content!)

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      1. Thanks for the update! Spelling in my weakness and sometimes spell check doesn’t help one bit! I will check out that web comics! I appreciate the feedback!

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  19. Great blog!!!
    Hey everyone,
    I would like to share the link to my blog.
    Please view it and if it is worthy enough do like , share and drop your suggestions too!!

    LIFE – A ROLLER COASTER RIDE

    http://mynewlifetour.blogspot.in

    This will surely aid you in your life all you need to DO IS READ AND IMPLEMENT!!
    I was looking for some honest,constructive feedback on writing as well as the layout of the blog as More than a good comment I actually want to see honest comments. Interaction for my blog is highly appreciated!!!
    Thank you!!

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    1. I just thought I’d quickly check out your link, and as soon as I read one post and couldn’t stop laughing, I had to leave the room and try to compose myself a bit before emerging again (we had guests around). Of course, that didn’t work out very well and so, naturally, I read a few more. Which didn’t help my composure in the slightest. (It was the nipple-ectomy that really got me going)
      So yes, excellent, I loved it. You’ve just gained yourself a follower!

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      2. I’ve no idea, you’re asking the wrong gal I’m afraid. Just to get your name out there, I suppose, I don’t really know, sorry :/

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    1. The best tip I can think of to get more readers and followers is becoming more engaged in the community yourself — read others’ posts, and leave substantive comments; follow those blogs that resonate the most with you and start a dialog with some of the writers behind them. Engagement and involvement are really key to a successful blog.

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      1. Ben;
        I truly appreciate your this solid suggestions, fruitful feedback,helpful hints and trustworthy tips and believe me from the beginning of my blog I am doing or rather following this advice and believe me result is absolutely amazing, there is no gain if there is no pain and there is no shortcut of success……..
        What do you think?????????????
        wishing you all the best…………..

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  30. Hello, me again!
    I was just wondering about pictures. Are pictures a good thing? Relevant ones, of course. Should they be added even if there’s no need for them? Just if they look nice? Or would it be better if I only included a picture if I actually refer to it, or for comedic effect? And then all that business about copyright… Should I bother getting caught up in all that? Is it worth it?

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    1. Images often help blogs — and individual posts — become more engaging, not to mention more visually appealing. How often to include them is a personal call, but having an image-free blog is rarely a good call.

      Giving credit to images that aren’t your own is really important; you can learn more about attribution here:
      https://wordpress.com/dailypost/2013/03/26/source-and-attribute/

      The web is also full of images that are free to use by everyone. Here are some of our favorite resources:
      https://wordpress.com/dailypost/2014/04/30/free-images/

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      1. Thanks, although it was a bit daunting, it wasn’t as complicated as I’d feared, much appreciated (for some reason I feel like bowing, and I don’t know why)

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