What Makes a Great Blog?

What I have found from reviewing fellows students blogs is that the use of color and different fonts is something that is nonexistent. The blogs that I reviewed seemed quite bland and most of them looked the same. This is one thing that I did to change my blog. Initially I used the same old boring colors and fonts to display my information. I don’t know if this was because I came from a format in school where everything is in Times New Roman font and in plain old black and white. With today’s society and some many things competing for our attention a person needs to make their own blog pop with color and other invitations to get people to not only notice but read your material. This could be because people haven’t really put in the effort to diversify their blog, but this issue needs to be addressed. When I first made my blog I used the same old template that it seems that everyone else made. I then switched my template to something with more color. I think that my views on certain things are colorful and I am trying to portray that with the amount of color that I do use. Sometimes getting a reader’s attention is everything. I think with the use of color and different fonts may entice people to click the link and read what it is you have to offer.

The components and elements required to develop and design an effective and visually appealing blog are as follows. We were introduced to the Google format that helped to create our own blogs. These templates give us seemingly interesting templates that does not need much manipulation to be affective. This is not the case; we as bloggers trying to take this serious should adjust these template’s to fulfill our own needs change the template formats to fit our own needs. The blogs that I have seen need images and other icons to make their blog standout from the rest. The one I did see from Kimflores.com had images of her and made her site pop. The fact that I have not integrated into this into my own blog is a simple lack of experience.

I will incorporate this knowledge in my own blog as follows. I have seen the absence of color and substance. I have tried to combat these issues by adding color to my own blog. I originally used one of those boring blogs as my template but soon realized that if I wanted to get message read that I need to add some flavor. Consumers today are given so many opportunities to try different things. I am trying to point out that my point of view is worth listening too. I can attract people initially because using color and attention getters can get people drawn in initially. But it is the content that will really get people to keep reading. In any blog the most important part is the actual information.