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Monday, September 14, 2009

Recite your mantra

Bit of a focus on blog tricks and techniques. Remember the mantra,
"Audience and purpose, audience and purpose!"
I fully appreciate everyone wanting to make their sites look super colourful and attractive but sometimes less is more. And you should never "bling" your site at the expense of core functions like followers and comments. It's a blog. Purpose! Remember?
I have said all I am going to say about hot pink text on black backgrounds and the like...
Now if you need help with your blog posts I feel your pain. If you're not used to using a muscle it can take a while to build your strength but in the meantime the workouts kill! Well help is at hand. Check out this earlier post with a link to some sentence starters. Pick one from each section, complete the sentence and bingo! Instant paragraph.
Don't forget to fill out the online self assessment form mentioned in the previous post every so often and keep chipping away at those projects. Our Greenhouse Earth Project Launcher on Atomic Learning can help you out with the nitty gritty (we actually used it as sort of a template. Shh! Don't tell!)

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