Comments on: Content design – what makes a good landing page

By: PianoPlanet

PianoPlanet — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 09:21:05 +0000

PianoPlanet…

Megacool Blog indeed!… if anyone else has anything it would be much appreciated. Great website Enjoy!…

By: Nakodari

Nakodari — Thu, 07 May 2009 15:38:51 +0000

Hey Cristi,

Although I am a little late in writing this comment. I was thinking exactly the same, I want a little change in design of my blog theme too, within next few months I will contact you about it.

The following will be changed.

Addition of Featured Posts on top. (also check the top featured post at (htp://www.ibrokesomething.com)

Making the main page a bit different by adding articles a bit similar like the one on Lifehacker. This will only change the landing page(homepage), not the sidebar and other single page will remain same.

I will contact you next month about this change! Cheers! Keep up the good work.

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 05 May 2009 17:43:25 +0000

I think traditionally with blogs the idea is to have a sort of landing “header” that directs people to other parts of the blog, and displays the latest story, most popular articles, and so on below. The sites you posted are a good example of this, icondock.com is another good example. I tried this on my blog and got iffy results. I now have entire articles on the homepage, otherwise people aren’t clicking through to read them, and I’m driving traffic directly to another, otherwise people won’t click on the big link in the header that directs them to do so. I thought at first this was because my articles and auxiliary tab were rubbish haha but once I made these changes the numbers improved dramatically. Anyway tapbots.com has an interesting site where their homepage is just a landing page with their two iPhone apps, then some navigation links at the top that take you to their blog. This is a change from before when they had a two column layout with their landing header for their iphone apps on the right and blog on the left. This may only be applicable for sites that sell specific products, but I wonder if there is an application to blogs where you would hide your content from the homepage behind an entire landing page rather than just a header. The landing page would have to on point of course.

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By: Cristi

Cristi — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 18:15:05 +0000

@Cokeramirez Thanks for your feedback. There are a lot of issues with my current theme. I know of most of them so this is why I need a redesign.

By: Cokeramirez

Cokeramirez — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 17:23:21 +0000

It seem I can’t see your blog comments form Chrome, I just see a white space where there should be comments

By: Cokeramirez

Cokeramirez — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 17:21:47 +0000

I’ve found that your thematic child themes are very hard to find once you are inside your site. I was looking for them on the top menu with no look.

Another thing, I think a landing page is very different from the home page, take a look at your statistics and see where are your visitor entering to your site. For me I think I always get here form links from Themeshaper or a Google search on thematic, maybe you would want to show a “welcome message” on the first page someone see, besides of your homepage.

Good look with your redesign, I’m learning here