Blogging Tips

Blogging Tips, Internet Tutorials, Technology

If your website or blog is difficult to navigate or read, people will skip it and move on to other website or blog. The quality of your website or blog also reflects on your professionalism. This may be unfair, but it is what it is. Here are several simple ways to make your website or blog more retain readership and user friendly :

1. Text Alignment
Your text in the posts must be left justified, like as in magazines and books. That makes it more easy to read because. Centering your text should not be used very often.

2. Text Size
The text in the body of your post or writing should be at a normal viewing size. Bold, large, colorful letters do not make up for poor post or writing and are commonly not a good design tool in an article.

3. Don't use Snapshots
Snapshots is a tool that allows a visitor or user to hover over a link and see a small view of the linked website. They seem nice at first, but they get in the way when visitor are reading and
accidentally hover over a link for a split-second too long. They will make your website or blog more heavy.

4. Authenticity
There is a new trend in blogging to feature real weddings that visitors send in. This is awesome for inspiration and this is an great way to honor the visitor reading your website or blog. If the wedding is not one you worked on, please make sure it is clear in the post. Do not imply credit for planning the wedding by happyly leaving that information out if you simply stake out the stationery pieces,.

5. Spell Out Acronyms
You aren't an acronym and your website or blog isn't an instant message chat board, so lose the laziness when you are writing and spell out your blog name or other acronyms you may be using.

6. Spell Check
Blogger (blogger.com) has a spell check feature installed. So do Wordpress and Typepad. Use that. Being a good speller may not necessarily be reflective of your cleverness, but it is reflective of attention to detail and your professionalism.

7. When?
Nothing is more frustrating than reading a website or blog and not knowing when a specific article or post was written because they author has make disappear the date. Some authors do not display it because they want it to seem like they are blogging frequently. That does not achieve that purpose and it just frustrates visitors or readers. You can get away without not including timestamps, but the date should always be displayed.

8. Holding Your Blog Hostage
There is actually something more annoying than not showing the date on your posts, and that is by forcing visitors to click through to your website or blog from their reader service in order to
read your complete article or post. People use Google Reader or other services because that is precise for them. If you are going to offer the ability to subscribe to your articles or posts, then do not hold your articles or posts hostage by not allowing the complete feed to display.
Blogging Tips, Internet Tutorials, Technology