Happy Thursday my lovely readers!

Last week I discussed a social media website called Delicious as a tool for any business. Delicious is a social bookmarking website where it is easy to separate websites and blogs of a particular topic. Throughout my posts the past couple of weeks I’ve discussed strictly social media, websites and fashion. For all my fellow bloggers or anyone interested in creating a blog, I felt I should post a couple of ideas about creating a blog and how to lay it out.

In my opinion, I enjoy blogs that include 3 things:

1. relevant to something I want to learn more about or that I like to read about

2. the lay-out is updates, easy to read and not too busy, yet not boring

3. funny, interesting and creative writing language throughout the posts on the blog

This week I will be focusing more on number 2 and 3, then eventually touching base on number one towards the conclusion.

 

Ok, lets get started! So lay-out and writing of a blog are my favorite parts to discuss and learn more about. In my blog, I try to use fun and creative ways to attract new readers by using catchy blog titles, up-to-date language and easy to read flow so everyone would be able to understand what I am writing. As far as the actual layout of this blog, I chose to go with a background and banner that is cute, attractive and appropriate to the topic I am writing about. This blog is centered around social media, PR and fashion so I did not want to go for anything with pictures and colors that would take away from my discussions.

If you are looking to create a blog, go for a theme that is relevant to your topic. Some things to think about would be color scheme, pictures and banners that create a sense of sophistication for your topic.

Here are some examples of blogs that base the blog style/look off of their topic of discussion for their general blog posts:

Tech Blog

 

Make-up Blog

 

As you can see, the colors and general layout of the blog pertain to the topic. From the font, to the social media handles, everything relates and fits together. In order to attract readers, the blog should look legit, put together and professional. Like I said before, the language should be unique and sound like the blogger in order to give it an extra boost of character. However, the language should say professional, appropriate and always on topic. Unless the style you are going for is crazy and spontaneous, then do whatever seems fit! HAHA.

All of these things I am talking about bring me back to my first point. If your blog is interesting, up-to-date and fun, readers WILL want to stay connected with you! Reading about something you like is fun, what is even better is when where you are reading it from makes the topic even more interesting! All in all, following these ideas I gave as well as reading other blogs and gathering info, your blog should be fabulous! Good Luck!

Until next time!

XOXO

Murphie