Thursday, 29 November 2018

How to Build a Blog Workshop

6D2

Sarah Bates 

2 lives
- student/ personal life
- working professional
Need separation between these lives.

Target audience

Benefits to blogging
  • Promote your self/work/business - no personal, focus on work
  • Engage on a customer facing level - language and tone 
  • Express yourself and share your passion 
  • Make a difference
  • Share your knowledge
  • Possibility to make money online
  • Build a professional network
  • Earn more exposure - commissions, employment, projects
  • Build an online portfolio
  • Market your business
LinkedIn - benefits statement under image, not title. what can you do for them

Find blogs within industry to follow - help with content

eye magazine
adobe create
designweek 
Digital Arts
the dsgn blog
Shillington
creative review 

"Good" blogs

  • Bold large text in an 'easy to read' font for title and copy - differing colours across titles and in bodies of text
  • Plenty of high quality imagery - pictures 72dpi for fast loading (google > images > settings > large)
  • Personality & influence
  • Spacious - not loads of text nor over crowded imagery - narrow column widths
  • Main blog home page to look inviting with key articles
  • Easy navigation, have all pages at top of each page
  • Links to social media
  • Minimum 300 words per post - original words or google will not recognise



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