I’ve been considering a redesign over at my Home Improvement Blog - Renovate Australia for a while now. I am planning to use these 8 steps to redesign my blog.

1. What’s the goal of your blog? Does your design serve that goal?
2. Consider a thin header.
3. Make your About page useful.
4. Keep your sidebar functional.
5. If you have ads, keep them tasteful and unobtrusive.
6. Consider how blogrolls affect your design.
7. Do your fonts and their color help your readers?
8. Should you add rich media like photos and video to your blog?

The first things that I plan to look at are to reduce the size of the header (right now it is very tall), revamp my about page, remove some clutter from the sidebar (I can think of at least two things right now to remove) and check out the general look and feel of the site.

You can read more about making your blog design work for you over at chrisbrogan.com.