Sometimes I find myself staring at a blog design for long periods of time, but I still can’t figure out how to make it better. This use to frustrate me to no end, because I believe that a design is never finished and you can always make it better.

Now it doesn’t really bother me anymore. My new problem is I can’t stop thinking about how I can make a design better even though I just made changes to it a little while before. What I did was I applied a technique I picked up a while ago, but never thought of using it in web design. The technique is very simple in itself, but what it does is it takes the problem and changes how you look at it. Just this simple change can make ideas on how you can improve your blog design pour out of your head.

So what is the technique? It’s simple. Just ask yourself this question “How can I make this worst?” This question is much easier to ask then “How can I make it better?” because chances are you have already exhausted all the options that came to your head already asking that. Here is an example of it in practice:

How can I make my sidebar worst?
I could make it harder to scan. I could make it harder to find things. I could bunch all the sections together. I could use a color scheme that doesn’t emphasize the important parts.

If you take all this and work backwards you will get the things you can focus on in order to make your sidebar better. For example, you could make it easier to scan, make it easier to find things, split the sections up better, and use a color scheme that emphasizes the important parts of the sidebar.

Just take this question and apply it to areas you want to improve in your blog design in order to get ideas going. If you have any good tips to think of ways to improve a blog design, feel free to write a comment.

有时我发现自己长时间凝视着一个博客设计，但仍然无法弄清楚如何才能让它变得更加完美。这经常给我带来无穷无尽的苦恼，因为我相信，一个设计是永远不会完成的，你总是可以使其更臻完美。

现在，它真的再也不会那么困扰我了。我的新问题是，尽管我不久前刚刚对一个设计做了几处更改，我仍不能停止思考如何才能让它变得更加完美。我所做的就是应用了一个技巧。这个技巧是前一阵子（不久前）刚刚学到的，但从来没有想到过把它用到网页设计上。该技巧就其本身而言非常简单，但它却能解决问题以及改变你看问题的方式。就是这个简单的改变可以使如何能改进博客设计的想法从你的头脑中涌现出来。

那么，这个技巧是什么呢？它非常简单。仅仅问问你自己这个问题：“我怎样才能使这个设计糟糕透顶呢？”就好了。这是个更容易问的问题，然后在问“我怎样才能使它更好呢？”。因为你可能早已用尽了所有涌现到你的头脑中早已那么问的选项。这里是它在实践中一个例子：

如何使我的工具栏（侧边栏）糟糕透顶呢？

我可以使它更难扫描。我可以使它更难搜索到东西。我可以把各个部分堆积到一起。我可以使用一种色别法来不突出（强调）重要部分。

如果你采取这一切，和反方向工作，你就会把注意力放到那些东西上，从而把工具栏作得更好。例如，您可以使其更易于扫描，使它更容易搜索到东西，你可以把个各部分更好地划分开，以及使用色别法来突出（强调）工具栏（侧边栏）的重要部分。

为了使想法付之于现实，请使用（记住）这个问题，并将其应用到你的博客设计中你想改进的地方。如果你在改进博客设计上有任何能想出好的方法的诀窍，请随意写篇评论。