Take a look at your blog as if you were someone who has never seen a blog before. Imagine they are looking for something specific. Could they find it? Could they find YOU again? Be able to contact you? Would they understand your jargon?
This weeks Weekly Geeks made me aware of two easy improvements of Graasland, so:
- I’ve added a contact page
- I made a glossary of terms
I also know my categories may be a bit vague, but that’s how I like them (for now). And at least most of them are in English — since a few weeks ;)
Of course it would have been better if Graasland had been on graasland.wordpress.com. But I only decided on the name after a while… Then I immediately claimed the url above and made a link to this actual blog. Not perfect, but it serves its purpose.
On my contact page I have explained my weblog name to English readers. Should I add it to the glossary as well?
For a while now I have been thinking of making a sticky post on top of Graasland, about my alternating between English and the Dutch language. A justification of that can already be found on my ‘About‘-page, and I also have a (quite obvious ;) category English posts. I don’t want to make regular visitors read the same text over and over again — so I’ve decided against the sticky post. What do you think?
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donderdag 8 oktober 2009 bij 14:59
Care
I think I would skip the sticky post idea. Most people (I think?!) would click on your ABOUT tab to find out what is going on – which is what I did. And I learned something here – I had no idea this ‘bento’ concept was a trend! it’s very cool now that I know what it’s about. I was wondering why I found a blog somewhere that seemed to share photos of their lunchbox. Welcome to Weekly Geeks. I like this template, too, btw. :)
donderdag 8 oktober 2009 bij 17:27
Anna van Gelderen
Personally I don’t like sticky posts. I would stick to the About page, as you intend to ;-)
donderdag 8 oktober 2009 bij 23:43
Sarah
That was quick with the contact page and the glossary. Congratulations on setting clear goals and achieving them so quickly.
I like the idea of ‘vague’ categories. Personality in a blog can never be a bad thing!
vrijdag 9 oktober 2009 bij 11:22
gnoegnoe
@Care, @Anna, @Sarah: thank you all for your reassuring input!
vrijdag 9 oktober 2009 bij 16:36
gautami tripathy
Adding a contact page, sure helps.
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vrijdag 9 oktober 2009 bij 22:20
uncertainprinciples
I like the glossary of terms! Good job :)
Contact page is nice – I really should do that soon, as well. It’s on my *list*.