Have you ever thought your blogs or forums layout?
Ever wondered is it important to improve your blog of forum “skin”?
Well, most of the time content is the only way to keep up a good blog or forum, and a website as well. But let’s see a few facts about blogs and forum skins. Let’s pretend (as I know you have) your forum have a very good content, few interesting articles, and a few dedicated members, like you. After all, it is your pet. You are using a simple theme from some individual and very popular theme maker. Good eh.. NO!Your best enemy is using unique theme from the artist who have made it for your competitor directly, no one else can use it. His work includes banners, favicons, custom buttons and maybe even some custom coding. He is going to get much more attention even if his forum or blog doesn’t have as good content as you have. People want to join to the blog or forum if it suits their eyes.
As said, content is the key to success but good content without traffic is almost waste of time. Spend a few hundred and you will notice a difference. Marketing becomes easier with some eye catching “goodies”, visual or functional.
Go ahead and try. Buy one pre made skin from the artist, it cost onle 20-50$ so you have not much to lose. Hire someone to make a new banner for it and there we go then. Then start to spread the word that your forum or blog is doing major relaunch with a brand new style etc…
