Tuesday, March 23, 2010
Great Blogger Designs
As you can see. I've got my new blog design up. It still has some bugs to fix, but it's basically done. In working on it, I looked through a lot of blog sites on the web. I'll share a few with you. I've put together a few Blogspot-only blogs (since I'm now blogging in Blogspot).
It turned out to take longer than I thought. Most of the really creative sites I looked at were attached to someone's homepage. They may be using Blogger or Wordpress software for the blog itself, but it's not easily apparent. Of the sites with either Blogspot or Wordpress as part of their url, the large majority seemed to be Wordpress. I'm not sure whether the majority of really creative blogs are using Wordpress or if that's just the ones I happened to look at.
Most of the blog sites I've seen (whatever the software) are not very creative. They either directly use a template (often without any personalization other than putting their name on it) or tweak a template, ending up with something that still has a "templatey" look. In general, blogs are much less creative than websites; Which is understandable, since blogs are kind of the personal newsletters of the web. But still, it's kind of tiresome to share the same template with thousands (millions?) of other people.
A lot of the very creative blogs, by the way, are from people all over the world, especially, it seems, the far East: China, Indonesia, Philippines. We are really seeing global conversations on a grass-roots level.
Here are a few sites-all in Blogger- that really stand out.
It turned out to take longer than I thought. Most of the really creative sites I looked at were attached to someone's homepage. They may be using Blogger or Wordpress software for the blog itself, but it's not easily apparent. Of the sites with either Blogspot or Wordpress as part of their url, the large majority seemed to be Wordpress. I'm not sure whether the majority of really creative blogs are using Wordpress or if that's just the ones I happened to look at.
Most of the blog sites I've seen (whatever the software) are not very creative. They either directly use a template (often without any personalization other than putting their name on it) or tweak a template, ending up with something that still has a "templatey" look. In general, blogs are much less creative than websites; Which is understandable, since blogs are kind of the personal newsletters of the web. But still, it's kind of tiresome to share the same template with thousands (millions?) of other people.
A lot of the very creative blogs, by the way, are from people all over the world, especially, it seems, the far East: China, Indonesia, Philippines. We are really seeing global conversations on a grass-roots level.
Here are a few sites-all in Blogger- that really stand out.
Labels: Web Design
posted by Paul Segsworth @ 2:55 PM
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Wednesday, March 17, 2010
A new blog spot
As you can see, I've switched my blog from Wordpress to Blogger.
In our Web Design class, we are working on creating a custom-designed blog page. If I can figure out the code, and actually get it working, the custom site should be up within the next week or so. For the purpose of the class assignment, Jesh (our instructor) thought that Blogger would be easier to create a custom template than Wordpress and I am apparently the only one in the class working in Wordpress, so I will switch to Blogger.
I have no real loyalties to Wordpress other than I have gotten familiar with it and hate to make changes. Here's a little background: Blogger and Wordpress are the top two free blog sites on the Internet. Blogger is one of the original blog publishing sites and it's purchase by Google in 2003 has greatly expanded it's popularity. Wordpress was first released by Matt Mullenweg (also in 2003) and has since become the most popular blog software in use.
There seemed to be a lot of passionate argument on the Internet (reminds me of the mac vs PC arguments) over which of the two is best. The users of Wordpress are convinced that their blog software is best, while the users of Blogger naturally are convinced theirs is better. I don't know enough to join the discussion myself. But here you can see a chart by Pulsed comparing the two.
My previous blogs can still be found at: http://paulsegsworth.wordpress.com/
And now I'll go back to working on Blogger coding.
Labels: Web Design
posted by Paul Segsworth @ 3:35 PM
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