Redesigning The Blog – What Would You Like Changed?

I’m at the very starting stages of getting the blog redesigned. Before I go much further I thought it would be a good idea to reach out to you guys, my readers to see what you like or don’t like about the current website.  Is there something another site has that you’d like to see implemented here?

Here are changes that I’d like to make:

• Improve the site speed dramatically
• Change to font size (bit bigger) and font style
• Fix issues with website on mobile and tablet displays
• Improve the site search and give people the choice to use Google search or the normal Wordpress search
• Fix links in the comments (green outlined box) and the start of the comments section (same problem)
• Make it easier for people to subscribe to posts via e-mail, on either a daily or weekly basis. This will also involve fixing up the end of every post which says “you can sign up blah blah blah…”
• Increase the blog width so there is less dead space.

Here are the changes that I am considering:

• Add an advertisement between the second and third posts on the home page. This should give me a lot more blog income which I can put towards competitions that also crowd source content (e.g ‘Blogposts/Tools you wish existed‘ and ‘win $225 by helping me find bank bonuses‘)
• Add a featured post slider. This would show 4-5 posts that I think are the most important that we’ve posted recently, this way people just checking quickly would be able to skip the limited time deals and what not.

I like to think of this blog as a collaborative project and I want to try and emphasis this more in 2015, if there is something that you hate about the site currently then please let me know. If there is something which you think would improve the site, also let me know (feel free to link to other sites that do something particularly well).

This redesign isn’t going to be major and it’s not going to be an excuse to jam a whole bunch more advertisements down your throat. As you add your suggestions and critiques I’ll add to the above lists and pass it all onto my future designer.