Comments on: Do You Effectively Use That Sidebar?

By: Dean Cowart

Dean Cowart — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 17:20:52 +0000

Sidebars are very important, this post just reaffirms it for me! I always go back and forth with what to place over there.. it really depends on the website I guess. Carolina Marketing | Vista Designworks

By: Jeff Chandler

Jeff Chandler — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 10:51:15 +0000

You’re welcome Thomas. Once you get that redesigned sidebar in place, come back and let us know so we can take a look at it.

By: Thomas Nicholson

Thomas Nicholson — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 09:24:28 +0000

I think planning a blog sidebar is in the top 10 of design and usability concerns. I just started a blog so my whole site gets “tweaked” daily but the sidebar is something I have been planning for a few weeks now. This post came at the perfect time for me. Now I need to implement my sidebar plan.

I personally have mixed feelings about the double column sidebar. I have seen a few use it well and most use it poorly. Thanks for the link.

By: poor jokes

poor jokes — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 23:27:28 +0000

will try to use the sidebars more effectively aftr this

By: Jeff Chandler

Jeff Chandler — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 17:35:47 +0000

I can understand where your boyfriend is coming from. If someone were to click on a link and visited your other blog, they might not come back to the originating point. But I’m checking out your sidebars now and I see that your RSS subscribe button is near the center of the page in the sidebar instead of on top. Typically, I don’t see that too often. But I do like how accessible your archives are and the picture of you gives the blog a human face, literally.

On a side note, how has your experience been like with TypePad?

By: Melody Platz

Melody Platz — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 16:49:56 +0000

My boyfriend is an interaction designer and he helps me with my blog.

I have a two column side bar set up on typepad.

Tonight I said, “I want links to my other sites to be the first thing people see. To keep them within my blog network.”

He said, “But don’t you want to keep them on THIS site?”

We decided to have my recent posts at the top of the left column, with my google ads just underneath that. My picture and links to my other sites are in the farthest right column.

Still, this is all a work in progress.