Making Improvements to Your Blog

Style

What do we consider important in style

• Discrete Posts
• Short Paragraphs
• Distinct Titles
• Descriptive Links
• Images / Graphics

Blog examples

• kottke.org
• Weapons of Mass Distraction
• BoingBoing
• Dooce
• Random blog generator

Structure

User Profile

Settings Tab and Formatting

Blogger's template tags

Adding links to your link list

• The anchor tag
  <a href="http://www.link.com">This is my link</a>

Including images in your blog post

• The image tag
  <img src="http://new.blogger.com/images/logo207a.gif">

Adding comments to your blog

• Haloscan

Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)

HTML's <DIV> and <SPAN>

CSS Syntax

• color, background-color

CSS Box Model

• margin, padding, width, border

CSS Link Behavior

• A:link, A:visited
• A:hover, A:active, A:focus

Syndication

What is RSS?

Adding an RSS feed

• Blogmatrix