The audience for my Blog will be Shopify application (app) users. My blog will be useful for small business owners, web designers and developers. Based on my audience I intend to make design my blog in a way that it is informative and provides my readers with information and recommendations about the apps available on the Shopify platform. Since my website will be geared toward users with different levels of proficiency in information technology, I will design it in a way that even a novice would feel comfortable reading my blog. I will be mindful not to use too much technical jargon or acronyms.
The Techie R has a helpful step by step tutorial on YouTube for navigating in Blogger. It shows how to create post, download and select themes and managing settings (The Techie R, 2020). This is a great visual resource that will help me build my blog. In doing my research on other technical blogs it appears that a simple design is best. Most of the blogs that I observed had a solid background color, mainly white, black or blue with one or two other accent colors for fonts and boarders. I will design my blog in a similar way with a white background two different shades of green for fonts and boarders. This is in alignment with the current color scheme of Shopify. In one of the tutorials that I watched it was recommended to begin each post with an image followed by and introduction paragraph. Other imagery and video may be added throughout the post where applicable to illustrate the discussion point. Followed by a conclusion paragraph, as some please scroll to the end to read the conclusion before reading the post from start to finish (Patel, 2020) The font for headers will stand out boldly from the body of my paragraphs and I will use a legible font that is easy to read.
The blog that I reviewed by Science Soft Professional Software was very well designed. It had a specific audience, and all the post were related to medical technology. The color scheme and layout of the page was idea to any reader. All the tags and categories were located at the top of the page. The tiles for each post were uniform in they all had an animated image, post title, date and brief description. InsideEVs, also was a well designed blog that was all about electric vehicles. I designer was a minimalist and did not attempt to put to much on the page. Both examples illustrated the effects of keeping things simple and help identify placement on my blog.
On the contrary Digitaltrends.com was a blog that had way too much going on. The blog was so wordy and unorganized. The blog has such a board range of topics such as computing, mobile, gaming and smart homes. This made it difficult to navigate, although it was segmented into categorizes. This helped me hon in on a narrower discussion point for my blog.
My key takeaways are:
- Keep it simple
- Utilize the side bar for ‘call to actions'
- Have a top bar
- About section
- Comment section
- Make the blog accessible
- Have the social icons scroll with the user 3
- Use plugins
- Use vivid imagery
Science Soft Professional Software Development. (2021). https://www.scnsoft.com/bog
InsideEvs. (2021). https://www.insideevs.com Digital Trends. (2021). https://www.digitaltrends.com
The Techie R. (2020). How to create a blog using blogger. YouTube. https://www.Youtube.com/watch?v=Q9H‐8‐MQKpc
Utke, D. (2020). Google’s blogger pros and cons. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEiRWraOejs Patel, N. (2020). How to create the perfect blog layout. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBcNQwjNuy
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