A number of bloggers have made comments at Geneabloggers. As an opinionated genealogy blogger I must add my thoughts.
A few months ago I wrote a post Geniaus - Mission Statement Missing in which I talked about audience and purpose in blogging. I think it is putting the cart before the horse to talk about what a blog must have before thinking about why the blog is written and for whom.
Is the blog for entertainment, education, advertising or promotion?
That being said I think that these elements from the list of musthaves proposed by Judy are probably the minimum needed for any blog:
- About me
- Subscribe option
- Follow option
- Blog archive
I applied a new template to my blog a few months ago so that I could add extra bells and whistles to my blog. I thought long and hard about which to use and where to place them on the page (and I am still shifting them around). .I live less than an hour from Sydney's CBD in a semi-rural area where we, like our country cousins, have poor internet connectivity Although my blog is loaded with bling it seems to load in a reasonable time considering the constraints.
Once a genealogy blogger has thought about the purpose and audience for her blog then it is time to consider which bells and whistles are appropriate to enhance that blog's unique character.
4 comments:
The only thing a blog really needs is great content. Some info pages (About, Copyright, Contact, perhaps a FAQ) are nice. Most widgets and plug-ins only distract from the content. AddThis and ShareThis pop-ups are particularly annoying.
Good content doesn't need any bling.
Thanks for the big boost to my morale! It is great to hear everyone's ideas (some of which I have already implemented today). I intend to play around with different layouts, stand-alone pages, etc. to see what works best. (So much to learn.. so much to do.. so little time!)
For some reason I have never taken much notice of the Nav Bar at the top of Blogger's pages. A few moments ago I made it transparent (which looks nicer) and I tested the Search box there. It seems to search my blog very nicely - in which case I only need to add a search box in the sidebar if I hide the Nav Bar or if I want to customise the search to include other Web sites. (Please correct me if I'm wrong about this.)
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