Some designing rules for a professional blog
So you have a blog and you’re happy with it. You like the layout, the fonts and the overall presentation. But have you thought that a professional blog, like any other publication from your company, needed to follow some rules and had to include some mandatory elements? This is true that the templates provided by the software providers give you lots of choices. But you have to think that a company blog is a business project. And these software companies will not help you to build a good design map. Here are some tips about what you should think about before starting a new blog — or revamping one of your existing ones. But read more…
I’ve enrolled two bloggers from New Zealand to help me for this. Let’s start with a chart provided by a CAD designer ‘named’ RobiNZ Blog (Credit: RobiNZ).
Does your blog follow these design rules? I have to say that mine doesn’t conform completely to them.
Now, let’s turn to Rachel Cunliffe who listed several steps for designing a professional blog in this post. Here is a summary of her ideas — and mine.
- Decide with your customer what is the real purpose of his blog
- Design a layout and tweak the design of the blogging templates to accommodate his requests
- Revisit your design after a month or two according to the comments received, both from your customer and from the readers
- And never forget to check — and acknowledge — your errors!
These are essential steps in my opinion. Do I miss something? Please let me know.
Source: Rachel Cunliffe and RobiNZ, New Zealand, March 2006
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