Whether you’re building a website or online portfolio, or a blog with your latest posts displayed front and center, you want your site’s front page to look great, but also provide information your readers want and need. Here are five elements, from beginner’s tweaks to bigger ideas, to consider as you create your online home:
1. Your blog name, loud and clear
You want your visitors to know exactly what your site is about the moment they land on your homepage. One of your first tasks when creating your blog is to set your site title and tagline. Note that site titles display differently across our 250+ themes.
We love the way recently launched Hemingway Unwritten displays a blog name and tagline in a sleek parallax-scrolling header:
The header of A Patchwork Life, using the Hemingway Unwritten theme.
You can also create a custom header image, which you…
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