Posts Tagged ‘design’

Fashion blogger gives her website a truly stylish makeover

I look at a lot of websites – many of them from fashion and beauty bloggers. I’ve seen a variety of website design from the clean minimalism of The Sartorialist to ijustine’s punchy and dynamic blog formerly known as “Tasty Blog Snack”. I’ve also seen a lot of bad design from enthusiastic fashionistas and style mavens. *And when I say bad I don’t necessarily mean ugly…just “unfortunate” because too often the layout just doesn’t do a good job of representing the real life eye for design these folks genuinely have. This was the case the first time I visited the blog of one of my favorite fashion tweeters @LadyMpresents. Great content…rather unfortunate looking blog.

I felt bad. Here was a stylish jet-setting gal who out of the blue sent me such charming and supportive tweets about my own blogging endeavors & I was having a hard time just reading hers. You’ve been there before haven’t you? Like you’ve got this wonderful friend and family member that wears a color that doesn’t suite them but you don’t know how to tell them. Happens all the time in real life AND the web I’ve noticed.

So, how to tell someone with great style that their website just…doesn’t? I’m no snarky Perez Hilton in virtual or real life so I have a hard time being blunt. Thankfully I didn’t get a chance to dole out a harsh critique cause M was totally on the ball. Exhibit A:

Now I would have loved to show you, dear fashionable readers, the transformation in all it’s amazing drama with a “before” pic – alas I wasn’t on the ball enough to get a screen capture. At any rate I am floored with the look of her new site and happy to spotlight it on my own blog! It does her and her brand gorgeous justice. It also really allows her writing to shine (she SHOULD be a fashion reporter!) I love a good makeover – don’t you?

This amazing website was created with the help of uk design company Torpedo Juice Ltd.. And they did just a bang up job of it didn’t they? So much so that Lady M thanks just had to give them props on her “About” page.

So for my clothing, accessory and shoe obsessed bloggers out there here’s a question for ya:

How much “style” does your blog have?

How well does it represent your own signature style? If it don’t…get that makeover and your own readers will come in droves :)

Okay dear readers this may be a bit of a boring post for you since I’m not going to talk about any hot current news, or divulge some scintillating detail from my sex life, or even how I glam myself up for a night on the town. I’m just going to share with you my joy in learning how to make my content look good and be easier to read. Its damn helpful for the internet and for business so you might actually appreciate my findings (if you didn’t already google them yourself and you are already a turbo expert at it) I really enjoy learning how to make my stuff look pretty.
So I today I googled “bullet list html” to get myself some code for making lovely little bulleted lists on my pages. Why bullet lists? Let me explain:
Why Bullet Lists Are Hot

• They look nice and neat
• They outline statements in an easy to digest way
• I like circles :)

Isn’t that nice? If you are interested here is the page for the code.

Alright…I am hella busy with all my internetting projects so I’ll get back to work. Again thank you for the feedback here, on youtube, facebook, and flickr! Love hearing from you!