Aug 14, 2017 / Community Pool

Community Pool

Where bloggers come together to give each other feedback and advice.

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

The Community Pool is for peer feedback and advice. Looking for more specific information? Check out some of these resources:

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. No need to feel guilty about loving the Moldy Peaches, they’re awesome! Kimya Dawson is one of my favourite songwriters around, and I know lots of artists in the indie world love her stuff. Nicely written and interesting stuff anyway 🙂

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      1. I like your colors and header image. My biggest piece advice would be to go in and edit the text widget on the right-hand side, as well as the about page. That would be a good place to start and then get to posting! 🙂 Good luck!

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    3. Overall your blog clean and has a simple layout, making it easier to navigate and to read.

      Though I have a few tips:

      The About Page looks fine though you could add some more detail about yourself or the potential you have for your blog, this will help other bloggers learn more about you. Also, you could add an image to make it visually appealing and emphasise what you’ve written.

      The first post you’ve published is great so far, but you could split the middle section into paragraphs so that it’s easier to follow, you could add images, again to make it visually appealing.

      Another thing you should add would be more widgets, such as a follow button, or one to display your latest/most popular posts (for when that happens in the future). And to also add social media widgets so that you can communicate with others and share your blog links on other platforms.

      Hope this was useful!!

      Check out my blog https://whenlifeawakens.wordpress.com/

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    1. Clicked send too soon! Hope you all had a great weekend! Would love for you to stop by for some laughs and some useful information rather uncharacteristic of my blog.

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  7. Hey all!
    I wrote a new post about our real fears, the ones which most of us deny to accept. And the good thing about it? I made this poem using mirakee and it’s endless backgrounds! Sure guys check it out! And of course, if you have mirakee already, do let me know your username so that I can check out your content!
    Here’s the post:

    Fears.

    I love y’all 😘😘

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      1. Oh.. mirakee is an app which you can find in the play store if you’re using an Android device. It’s for writers who can have beautiful backgrounds and structure for their writings. Thank you so much for reading!

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    1. On Friday, I heard a comedian tell where he got his inspiration. He said he has trained himself to be observant of everything around him. I think that approach could work for you. In everything you notice, ask yourself if there is something about it that sparks your imagination. https://gracelead.co

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    2. I’m not a CW blogger and I hardly consider myself creative but perhaps an easy place to start is from the Daily Post’s daily writing prompts.

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    1. Nice clean site, looks professional! I did notice you used over 15 tags, and I believe that is the magic limit for search engines. So you may want to narrow them down slightly to improve the likelihood of people finding your site!

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  14. Hi Everyone,

    This week I put up a few posts outside the norm for my blog and I’m looking for a bit of feedback on them. The first is a work shopping piece for one of the first poems I wrote on my blog, the second a piece on gender, and the third is the most recent post in a new series of tips for blogging that I’ve picked up over the last seven years.
    https://caroljforrester.com/2017/08/10/confusion-how-to-rewrite-an-old-poem-throwback-thursday/

    What Are Little Girls Made Of?: Breaking The Stereotypes In My Head

    How To Create A Blogging Schedule – Three Tips On Building A Schedule For Writers

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  18. Hi everyone – and Happy Monday!! I would love for you all to check out my blog site and let me know what you think. I only started blogging in mid-April…and feel like I have grow in my writing tremendously since then… Let me know what you think. Thanks so much!!!

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  24. Hello everybody!

    How are you all doing? Hope you all had a great weekend.
    Tears are generally considered as a sign of weakness. But what about the people who cannot cry?
    My latest blog post ‘Tears’ which is a poem is on the above lines.
    Do read it here:

    Tears

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      1. Hi Johnny, I was just considering experimenting with different themes and making each category a drop down menu, so they’d all be on the top menu bar, if that makes sense? Also chemistry is one of my favourite subjects, pharmacy student here 🙂

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      2. What you’re thinking of would make your blog’s interface somewhat cleaner. I feel like a clean, minimal design (yes, I’m biased towards design minimalism) provides a great contrast as it does a good job of foregrounding the kinds of pictures that fashion/beauty blogs tend to have.

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    3. Not that there is anything wrong with how you have it, but if you are considering a face-lift, I think there are some really great feminine themes out there that could enhance your site. Your content is good, I think the current colors just weigh it down a bit. You even have a beautiful icon/title/tag-line and the color blocked style of your current site just doesn’t do it all justice. Good luck, can’t wait to see what you come up with!

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