My wife has been an excellent and dedicated blogger for several years now. Her skills have grown, as have her audience. We both agree that it’s time to take it to the next level - a custom blog at a domain of her own.
I have some ideas, but I wanted to put it to you.
Update: Some great feedback in the thread - probably the most-commented post yet. Some more questions: what about photography? Should that be front-and-center, or “below the fold” and out of the way?
This has become a hybrid discussion of my site and Kristi’s potential site. Which is okay - just interesting! Thanks for the feedback!
What kind of features would you like to see? Examples might be, “a list of the latest comments”; “a link list of sites you read”; “more photos”; “more on topic x or y”; “easier search and getting to archived posts”; or, “more RSS feeds, like comments and stuff”. I’ll start: “an iPhone-compatible version!”. The content is really up to her - I’m trying to figure out a feature set. I can build pretty much anything with Expression Engine.
One thing I’m looking at is how to roll together these disparate “content pools”: Flickr photos, del.icio.us links, conversations and Twitter posts into one main page.
Another way to put this: what sites do you really like? Any world-class blogs you like? What web trends are hot?
You Blogger.com people: would you post on a blog, if it’s not a Blogger.com blog? My goal is to make it as easy as possible, but I get relatively few comments on my blog. I’ve never discovered whether it’s that people aren’t interested in what I’m writing about, or if it’s confusing or difficult to add posts. Mine’s more work-oriented; Kristi’s all about human interest and keeping up with friends & family.
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