Well I have been stewing on this idea of where the sidebar of a blog should go and how many sidebars a blog should have.

Really the ultimate decision comes down to a personal choice, but I thought I would come up with a some pros and cons of each of the possible combinations a blog sidebar can take.

Basically the options are:

• One Sidebar on the right;
• One Sidebar on the left;
• Two Sidebars on the right;
• Two Sidebars on the left;
• Two Sidebars, one on either side;
• Three or more Sidebars in various combinations;

Each site has its own unique feeling which makes each website individual from every other website, which is the aim of the web designers right? Well how you go about having your site is a choice that you have to make as a blogger.

One Sidebar on the Right

The main reason for people using this layout is the blog feel it gives to a site, and the fact that in the western world, people read from left to right, and as such, the content is the first material that a user would browse over.

Some people still use an 800×600px, and some designers choose to work with a 1024px wide design layout, as such, a right hand sidebar means that for those people who are still working on a smaller screen don’t have to scroll sideways in order to read the content which is the reason they visited the site right? If they would then like to see the sidebar, they can then scroll sideways to see it.

One Sidebar on the Left

The reasons for having a sidebar on the left of the site, is that many people usually look towards the centre of the site, and having a left sidebar forces the start of your post title closer to the centre of the page, and thus fall right beneath your viewers eyes.

This is especially useful when you have a very witty post title that grabs your readers attention immediately, and compels them to read the article following.

We will discuss more options of sidebar layouts in a future post.

Inspiration for this post series comes from Pro Blog Design.

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It has been brought to our attention that the new owner of WPDesigner.com is neglecting the site. Basically since his first post, which is currently his only post, absolutely nothing has been changed or modified on the site.

The number of comments on his post has grown to over 250 comments, many of them are spam, or impersonators of Pawal, and claim that the site will be ground into the ground, and that it was only bought as a tax concession.

Hopefully many of those comments are fake, but unless we can see the server logs, we can’t guarantee that they aren’t by Pawal himself, although they most likely aren’t.

I’m quite sure that Small Potato didn’t expect the site to go the way that it appears to have gone. I’m sure that Small Potato is quite appalled at the state of the site, and maybe even wishes he didn’t sell the site.

Jeff Chandler of WPCandy would like someone who is dedicated to WPDesigner.com to purchase the site from Pawal for $65,0000.

So what are your thoughts about the current state of WPDesigner.com?

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You may have noticed that I have added a new section to the sidebars of WPThoughts, an area where I support activities around the world that relate to WordPress and Blogging in particular.

The latest addition is to RSSDay.org.

If you have an activity that you would like me to support and blog about, please just let us know via our contact page, or leave a comment.

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