You only get one first impression. Not only with dates or job interviews, but also when people land on your website for the first time. The two most important things are good quality photos and high-quality content. Writing and Photography are Arts, and so is digital storytelling. Those things combined make the recipe for your readers to decide if they will stick around or move. Connecting with your audience is key.
The first spark
The first thing your readers see is your front page. Your website’s homepage is like the front door to your business, the welcome mat at that pretty home and that cherry on the cake. For us, our website was the start of our Digital Nomad Family life. We show you a few website front doors we really like. They are clean, stunning and inspirational. Not only the looks made us fall in love at first sight, but also their writing and way of engaging and connecting with people.
Urban Pixxels
Dutchie Jacinta is living in London, where she started her blog about her new life in London, but soon she extended this to travel and photography. And with huge success as her photos and stories are being used in magazines like Condé Nast Traveler, National Geographic, and her Instagram account has been listed several times as one of the best travel accounts to follow on Instagram.
Urban Pixels is all about travel inspiration and information for the traveler who wants to explore the most interesting destinations in the world; prefers design boutique hotels over hostels; likes travel photos and videos more than reading about it; is always looking for the hidden gems; and believes that exploring the local food culture is just as important as sightseeing. A really pretty website with amazing photography.
Another Escape
The front door of this website is just out of this world, literary and figuratively. I mean look at this front photo, it is absolutely stunning!
Another Escape is an outdoor lifestyle, creative culture and sustainable living website that explores the stories of passionate people, alluring landscapes and intriguing ideas. Inspired by nature to be creative and lead a considered way of life, they cover a disparate selection of subject matter all deep-rooted in exploration, creativity, innovation and discovery, and aim to be a source of inspiration for those who seek an active and considered lifestyle by encouraging an optimistic, forward-thinking and responsible mindset. Unique and inspiring!
Hither and Thither
Hither & Thither is a leading lifestyle and travel site created and written by Ashley Muir Bruhn. With thoughtful discussions on modern parenting, family friendly travel, home design, food, and more. Everything we love and write about as well. ( Well, the hospitality and the modern parenting part, as well as expat life stories, are coming in the near future 😉 ) But in the meantime we love to get inspired by this beautiful website.
Jungles in Paris
Far from your ‘ordinary’ travel blog! The planet has been charted and documented, and yet there are still discoveries to be made. Unfamiliar ways of living and extreme natural environments help us gain perspective; the seeds of enlightenment lie in the world’s mountains and seas, deserts, and swamps, and city sidewalks. Focusing on culture, craft, geography, and wildlife, Jungles in Paris attempts to tell edifying, inspiring stories that celebrate the multicoloured variety of the world around us. The people behind Jungles in Paris take a creative approach to documentary photography and filmmaking. If you want to read unique stories, you won’t find on any other blogs and get inspired by beautiful photography, this is the blog to subscribe to.
My Tiny Atlas
If you are active on Instagram and have an account related to travel, I am pretty sure you use or know the hashtag #mytinyatlas
Tiny Atlas Quarterly magazine began as an extension of the founder’s collaborative work as professional photographers, designers and photo editors, but was created on a very personal level. Ever growing since, Tiny Atlas is known for a signature visual style and specialising in telling rich, beautiful stories that unfold through images, art, and personal accounts. They feature high-quality content and photography, which is a pleasure to read and look at. One thing I really like is how creative they have been with their Destination Titles ( See pictures below how they did Tokyo, Minneapolis, Paris and Tel Aviv.
Our Wild Abandon
Love at first sight with this website by Kyla and Jill, who sold everything they owned to hit the road in a fixed up old trailer in 2013. We all know that expression ‘you only have one first impression’ and this blog’s front door is marriage material. And so is their Road Journal. Just look at them below and you know what I mean.
Kyla and Jill say on their website; ‘At our best, we are documenting our lives on the run and telling stories about the people in our path. At our worst we’re looking for places to shower and running out of gas ‘ Yep, We love these girls too!
Petite Passport
Pauline, another creative Dutchie, who loves to find the best hotspots. Not the ones you will find in every guidebook, but the more special ones. She wouldn’t go to a restaurant because the food is superb (which is, of course, a nice extra) but because of the interior. And we sure love to discover all the unique and design related hot spots she found on her travels as well.
Roam Magazine
ROAM is an online magazine for creative travellers, writers and photographers, telling the stories behind photographs.
Co-founders of ROAM Magazine, sisters Annapurna and Athena Mellor from Yorkshire, England, have spent part of their childhood living in the United Arab Emirates and Australia and developed an appreciation and interest in culture and travel. Both sisters later became passionate about words, photographs, and being open and honest and expressing themselves in a creative way.
Pretty awesome website’s right?! If you take the time to go and read a bit of each of them, you will see they write pretty awesome too! And that’s the second thing that makes a website successful. Content.
Content is key
To engage with your readers your content needs to be engaging, entertaining and fun. If you read stuff that is dryer than the sand in the Australian Outback, you would probably leave and never return. Sometimes it can be hard though to come up with great content, or when you just start you might have to figure out what your target audience is, or create your online strategy.
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Thank you so much! Yes we really like them as well! We had a look at your website, but it looks great! We like the magazine style! I think a website is like a house, there is always something to improve and change 🙂
Have a good week!
Jo
A great list with quite deep insights. I loved their pictures and the way they have organized them on their front page. Infact it has put me in deep thoughts regarding my own websites front page.
No worries Ana, you are more than welcome! And yes, I totally agree, everyone has their own personal and unique style and that is how it should be 🙂 But we always look for places to get inspiration from 🙂
Have a lovely weekend!
Everyone has their own unique style and I will check out all blogs/websites that you’ve mentioned! Thanks for the great tips!
Glad to hear Wanderlust Vegans! 🙂
That is really sweet! Thank you so much!
Have a great week!
Jo
You are more than welcome Kristof! Glad you got inspired by it!
Have a great day!
Jo
Some really great ideas. We found when we started posting a regular schedule we got more repeat readers. Also gives us more content ideas!
These are some great tips. This will help any blogger. You have created a listicle of some amazing blogs. Thanks for inspiring bloggers by doing this. Great job.
Very informative post with some great examples! So many great pictures on those websites, it’s getting my jealous! Thanks for the research!
You are more than welcome KJ!
Glad you liked it!
Have a lovely day!
Jo
Thank you so much! Great to hear you found it helpful! Yes we love the Rent My Brain concept to! The name alone is brilliant and so is the concept!
Have a great day!
Jo
Hi Sonar! Thank you so much! And you are more than welcome 🙂
Jo
Hahah I think your website is pretty awesome Megan! 🙂
Hi RJ.
Thank you so much! Glad we could give you some inspiration for your new blog!
We just had a look at your website and it looks great! Succes and have a lovely day!
Jo
Hahah that is exactly how we feel too! Those websites are absolutely amazing and inspiring!
Jo
Thanks for sharing. These are tips that will certainly bring life to any blog. I’ve made changes to my blog twice. Thanks for the inspiration.
This is a great article- very helpful! I love the Rent My Brain concept 🙂
I totally agree to everything that’s written. So informative. Thanks for sharing this.
Wow, Great website inspiration! I may need to make some changes to mine now…
Awesome post! I am a fairly new blogger and can’t wait to dive into these and learn how to make mine better!
Oh, thank you for these beautiful examples! I feel like I have work to do on my website now ^^
Thanks so much Priti 🙂 Hope you are having a wonderfull weekend
X Jo
Great post Jo, full of great tips and awesome websites to get inspiration from!
You are more than welcome Mal 🙂
Glad you got inspired by it!
Hope you are having a great week so far? X Jo
I’ve never heard of any of these blogs/websites, so it will be nice to check them out! Thank you so much for a dose of inspiration and so many useful tips!
Mal Xx