Jun 29, 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:

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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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  • 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.
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  1. Greetings all. I was hoping to get a little feedback on a short story I recently published on my blog. My blog is primarily geared towards short works of fiction, mainly science fiction, fantasy and horror with a few non-genre stories thrown into the mix. Currently I am in the middle of a month long writing challenge. Today I wrote and published a story I’ve been thinking about for months, and would love some comments/criticisms on the first draft. You can find the link to the story below, and I would be happy to look at anyone else’s blog in return and offer my own comments and suggestions.

    July Writing Challenge Day 4: A Husband in the Garden

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    1. The Harmonic theme only displays a site’s tagline when the front page is set up as a static page, not as your latest posts page (it’s a theme geared more towards those who wish to have more of a website feel, rather than a traditional blog).

      In case you’d like to give it a try, here are the instructions on setting up a static front page using Harmonic:

      Setting Up Your Front Page

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  5. This kind of guidance is exactly what I am looking for! Thank you in advance! I just wrote my first post yesterday, but I really don’t know how to maneuver my site or what other content I should have on it. The only menu item I have is About, and I have been able to add a header photo and a photo with my first post, but I do not know how to add pictures. Please help with the layout of my site! Any and all advice is appreciated. This is Blogging 101 (I missed the sign up!) for sure…

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