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5 Essential Things for a Blog

Nirmal by Nirmal
September 18, 2007
in Tips and Tricks
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I have already mentioned about the important things to look for in a blog design. After having a professional and fast loading design, the next question is what are the essential things for a blog? In this post I have identified the Top 5 essential things for any blog. So here is my pick.

  • Navigational Header: Header is the important part which gives a good impression of the blog. The Header should contain the links for navigation and it should be made simple and clear for the readers.
  • RSS feeds and Email Subscriptions: This point needs no explanation. We all know the importance of having feeds for your blog. Apart from having feeds, its also important that your blog offers Email Subscription. You can check out the importance of having Email Subscription.
  • Search: Search is another important ingredient of any blog. Most of the themes comes with a build in search functionality. You can even try out the custom search from Google. If you use WordPress as your blogging platform there are few plugins available for search.
  • Contact Page: Contact page offers a method for your readers to contact you through Email for any help or even reporting a problem on your blog. Apart from Contact page, an about page can also be included to get more information about the author.
  • Functional Footer: A functional footer is one which will provide a home page links, subscription link and links to other important pages in the blog like copyright etc. DailyBlogTips has written about the importance of having a functional footer.

So what is your pick for the top 5 things for a blog?

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Comments 25

  1. rahul says:
    18 years ago

    indeed good tips 🙂

    Reply
  2. Brown Baron says:
    18 years ago

    I keep forgetting about adding nav links in the footer. Thanks for the reminder buddy! 😀

    Reply
  3. shaun says:
    18 years ago

    I need to tidy up my footer theres not much to mine. great post stumbled 🙂

    Reply
  4. RT Cunningham says:
    18 years ago

    Hilarious. Daily Blog Tips doesn’t have the functional footer Daniel described.

    Reply
  5. Ken Xu says:
    18 years ago

    I completely ignore the footer menu! 🙂 I guess I should insert some link tonight. Thanks for your reminder. I do have some footer link, but not about the navigation but a top post and recent articles.
    I think I should make one like yours. 😀

    Reply
  6. nirmaltv says:
    18 years ago

    @BrownBaron,
    Footer links are very useful for readers.

    @Shawn,
    Thanks for the Stumble. 🙂

    @RT,
    Even when I was searching for the link to his post, I saw this, DBT doesnt have a functional footer! 😀

    Reply
  7. indyank says:
    18 years ago

    Rt and nirmal, That was funny…Was that originally from Daniel?

    Anyway they are essential apart from ofcourse content…

    Reply
  8. Thilak says:
    18 years ago

    Never felt that footer was an essential part of the theme. I think I will reconsider my views!

    BTW Nirmal, which contact form plugin do you use? I had some spam problems with mine. Some spammer was able to send his spam through me!

    Reply
  9. nirmaltv says:
    18 years ago

    @Indyank,
    It was originally from Daniel! 😆

    Reply
  10. nirmaltv says:
    18 years ago

    @Thilak,
    I use the following contact form – http://chip.cuccio.us/projects/contact-form-ii/

    Reply
  11. Shashank says:
    18 years ago

    i am also thinking to play with my footer 😀

    Reply
  12. Shankar Ganesh says:
    18 years ago

    Good tips, a contact page is very essential 🙂 I still don’t have a footer… have to work on it :mrgreen:

    Reply
  13. nirmaltv says:
    18 years ago

    @Shankar,
    Contact page is one of the most essential ones in a blog.

    Reply
  14. Madhur Kapoor says:
    18 years ago

    Nice tips Nirmal , Apart from contact page , one should also maintain an advertise page at a later stage

    Reply
  15. nirmaltv says:
    18 years ago

    @Madhur,
    You are right, once we have established the blog, we can have a good advertise page!

    Reply
  16. Haris says:
    18 years ago

    I have everything applied except for the functional footer. Now I’ll collect some interesting links for my footer 🙂

    BTW, great tips! I always like your tips.

    Reply
  17. nirmaltv says:
    18 years ago

    @Harris,
    Glad that you liked the tips. 🙂

    Reply
  18. Thilak says:
    18 years ago

    My last comment contains a grave mistake. Can you edit it off? and delete this comment?

    Reply
  19. Dana Wallert says:
    18 years ago

    I too need to spend some time on my footer. I felt compelled to comment though to scream my agreement of the rss feed and the contact form…

    I came across a great blog this morning via someone who had commented on one of my posts. I really enjoyed it and wanted to subscribe. I searched for a bit on the site, then went ahead and tried to subscribe manually through my reader, and none of that worked. There was no feed. Then, since I was already there I thought I’d just use their contact form to ask about the feed. There was no way to contact!

    Luckily, I had their e-mail address from the comment they left, and I know they’re working on adding a contact form by the end of the day and hopefully, they’ll get on the RSS thing too 🙂

    Reply
  20. ram says:
    18 years ago

    Nice tips buddy, contact page is very important for any blog.

    Reply
  21. Z.Z. Bachman says:
    18 years ago

    The writers and moderators at ZardozZ News & Satire search constantly for interesting feed content and we came across your site today. Great tips on blogging!! We would like to invite you to add your site to our blogring as your material appears interesting and aligned with our readership. If you are interested, you can find further information at the ZZ OpenRing. This is not meant as spam but as a sincere invitation. Hope you’ll join us…
    — ZZ Staff

    Reply
  22. nirmaltv says:
    18 years ago

    @Dana,
    Thanks for the comment! There are quite a few blogs which do not have a proper contact form or feeds. These are actually vital parts of the blog.

    Reply
  23. Roxi says:
    18 years ago

    Nice tips…….. 😀
    I will try to follow those.
    Really,lots of changes to do. 😯

    Reply
  24. Terri says:
    18 years ago

    Wow, I never thought of my footer as valuable space. I have been neglecting it for far too long. Off to create some new navigations links…..

    Reply
  25. paresh says:
    17 years ago

    very issential & useful list.

    Reply

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