Thinner Header Creates More Page Real Estate
October 25, 2009 by Russell Hall
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Russell.
Yes this keeping as much as possible above the fold is something I am very concerned with. For this reason my headers and even my headings have been getting shallower and shallower (just in size I hope!)
I also have to be careful not to spend too much time on design and concentrate on “content”. So I started on New Year Day with almost nothing actually working (no RSS, optins, comment subscriptions etc) but so far I have not got back to the content either! (Computer has been out of action – I am writing this in a 1998 HP desktop with 256mb RAM!)
I have just noticed that you do not apparently have an optin box on this page.
Is that purposeful or one of the things you have not got to yet?
Is this blog actually still going?
I have just noticed that the newest post is older than my first New Years post!
Wayne.
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Ahhh,… an interesting observation about the Optin form missing from this blog.
I actually deliberately removed it. Mainly because nobody was opting in…. despite the fact that at one stage I had put an offer to get 3 free really good e-books (not trash… good stuff) just for opting in. I had a really nice graphic and a subtle Action exit popup but none of it made any difference.
I just figured that people are so sick of having to “optin” and then getting sent trash in their email that they’re understandably reluctant to optin. Now if your blog has been going for a while and they feel that you can be trusted AND have something decent to say and offer then they’ll optin. Just look at the prime examples of that in Yarro Starak, Gideon Shalwick, David Risely, Darren Rowse, Jeremy Shoemaker, John Chow..etc.
I also noticed quite a few people were using the RSS to subscribe… which is something I like to do because you can get all the content without the annoying emails.
Russ
PS.. yes the blog is still going but to be honest I started to devote more attention to my other blogs that make money,… having said that,.. the RussRave will remain as an anchor and we’ll see what it can be morphed into as it evolves! (someone suggested I should become even more pointed and vocal and rename it The RussRant!)