How to evaluate a blog – Part 5: The user experience

“User experience” or “Usability” is a big word for webmasters and serious bloggers. It is all – as many things while evaluating a blog or a website- all about “putting yourself in the shoes of your visitors”.

In this part of our evaluation series, I will restrict our analysis to the key points of “How easy is it to use the blog, to find information”.

Got a lot of blog content? Try a magazine layout!

Magazine themes allow you to present content vertically: arranged by categories or tags, as if you had sections in a newspaper or a magazine.

Recently I revamped the CIAT DAPA blog. Or should I say blogS, as they had five separate blogs, which referred one to another. Each of the old blogs had a sequential layout:

Difference - HTML and XHTML

When inserting codes into the Blogger template, page element, or blog post, you may have seen error messages that the code could not be parsed, was not well-formed, was broken, or that the elements were not closed properly. These errors can be corrected if you understand the rules that must be adhered to in XHTML documents. Blogger templates use the XHTML 1.0 Strict Document Type. In this article, we shall explain some of the XHTML syntax or rules, so that you may troubleshoot and resolve the problems if these error messages should occur.

10 Essential WordPress Plugins For Your Blog

WordPress has thousands of plugins that you install on your blog for free. These range from very specific plugins that do one thing only, to larger plugins that provide extensive functionality in a certain area.

With so many plugins available, it’s hard to know which ones are good, and it’s all too easy to forget one of the really important ones. This list is designed to highlight some of the plugins I found to be particularly useful.

Of course, with so many plugins available, it’s by no means an exhaustive list – so I may be writing a follow-up at a later date. If you’d like to see a follow-up, please add a comment and tell me your top 3 WordPress plugins.