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Monday, November 10, 2008, 2:43 am
#286THE DO'S AND DON'TS OF BLOGGINGMaybe its an illusion, but after spending like almost up to 2 years blogging and reading blogs, I've compiled a list of do's and don'ts, I seriously think people should read it through at least once, because nothing speaks better than experiences.
Do-1) Credit PeopleIf you have used others' icons, images, content, layout, it's basic courtesy to credit. It's either you are a total great blogger who is thankful for all the resources and stuff which appear on your blog or you could be like a total jerk and ignore other people's efforts.
2) Blog in paragraphsFor the sake of readers' eyes, it will make you totally cool and nice if you could blog in paragraphs, and not strain and stress your readers' eyes with the chunks of words sticking together, if you do not know, it will make the readers go all dizzy and have a bad experience reading your blog. So, play on the safe side,
organise your thoughts and break up the chunks into paragraphs.3) Blog meaningful contentI'm totally sick of people blogging about their everyday life. Like,
"English is boring, geog the teacher so sian." I admit I once do it too, but I find it totally
meaningless. So for example, in a paragraph, you could summarise your school encounters. for example, you could say:
"School is pretty boring, but I guess all of us have to live with it, anyway exams are round the corner so it's better to listen." and not rant on about each lesson what you do! I would prefer blogs who
share their thoughts about shows/ issues/ movies. Blog, is nice because its your thoughts, and not telling the worldwide web how boring school is. Seriously.
(I think gongyuan's blog is kind of interesting(: at least it has some purpose)Don't-1) Use black as background and white as font colourI'm totally aware that some the blogskins are designed in such a way, but I don't quite encourage such layout colour scheme, because, seriously, it's a pain in the eye. Try staring at it for more than 5minutes, you could almost feel the dizzyness and see black and white lines, and yes, I'm totally not aggrevating and exaggerating the situation, it's that bad, so if your blog has suck eye pain colour scheme as what I have described, I suggest a change. I bet blogskins.com still have tonnes of other nice blogskins with eye friendly colours.
2) Blog about "inside joke"Since it's an "inside joke" what's the use of stating it and saying it? It's sort of like treating the readers like some fools and make them feel stupid and distant away from you because they could not understand the whole inside joke thing. It's pretty
pointless, isn't it?
3) Blog about results.Firstly, it's not like your results are the visitors' concerns and issue. One or two lines like:
"Exams results are satisfactory, still room for improvement" totally beats
"My maths only 95! I'm so careless, I should have gotten my 5marks." Nobody is interested in knowing your marks. The publication of such marks and results only make you seem like some snobbish kid.
(I did that last time and I totally regret it). Secondly, it's super
insensitive. Mind you that blogger is world wide.
4) Include Vulgarities in postoh this is the worst among all the don't-s. vulgarities are totally not pleasant to the eye and it shows nothing but that you are just some ignorant kid who lacks vocabulary to the extent that vulgarities is all you could use when you wanted to express a state of anger, displeasure, or unhappiness. It doesn't make you cool
(or whatever the daring part), but it reflects you as somebody who is not properly educated and one with no respect to the readers. So stop, because it's not the latest trend please.
*disclaimer: I'm not talking about using words like shit and walao here, because they are far too common to be called vulgarities anymore. I'm refer to the one which has the same starting letter as 'food' and some others.5) Blog emo stuffI hate reading blogs with all the small letters
(even though I do that last time), It's such a childish act, by scolding this whole chunk of craps and vulgarities to someone, which being the readers totally do not know. It pratically makes the readers waste their time there looking at what you have to say about this anonymous guy/woman somewhere out there. It just make your blog being labelled as
"uninteresting".6) Use twitsOnce again, it's painful to the eyes, making it unpleasant. Some people even say that blog could help us improve our english expression, but blogging in twits surely won't have this effect, and typing
lyk tiish ish nortx koolx worzz. (totally failed attempt in twitting) these words totally got up to my nerves. So don't use it manxxxxxx.
Anyway, the general rule to blogging is
not to offend others, because that's bringing down low on yourself and it totally is not worth it.
Have fun blogging, fellow bloggers!:D
Monday, November 03, 2008, 2:15 am
#285everyday 7 takes of the same old scene
bound by the laws of same routine;
the world slows down,
but my heart beats fast right now,
I know this is
the part that the end startsJust an update to what I'm doing this holidays. I plan to go on a super and endless hiatus, I'm stuck and bound by restrictions to all the designs until I felt terrible and this is not what I want ever since I started designing. After finishing PSL blogskin, I think I need a long break to recover my long lost passion.
Good news, I'm most probably creating lj for icons display!:D I'm starting to get more interested in designing icons than all those images cropping up in my mind and interrupting the flow of inspiration. I'll see how I fare as time goes on I guess.
Yes, I would study in holidays too.
MOTIVATION.
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MY LJ IS UP!:D http://gravity-gap.livejournal.com/ LEAVELEAVE COMMENTS!but I will return to blogger!:D when I made a decent skin!(:[/edit]
I can see sunset in your eyes;
Saturday, November 01, 2008, 11:35 pm
#284I just can't take your tears;
current favourite song: I hate this part
Pussycat dollsI felt so sick staring at photoshop for the past hours deciding what and how to do PSL blogskin. I felt so uncertain! If i did icons skin it would be super easy but isn't an easy way out?
BUT I can't do anything of blending the pictures together. BOO!D:
holidays have arrived! The only problem is that I have no idea how I would spend this super long period of time, it would be
meaningless if I just idle everyday and watch dramas and tv and game,
but what other could I do?AMAZINGLY, I went for chinese tuition! apparently my chinese results are the lousiest among all my results! I must make sure I'm ready to take up CLEP next year. But not bad, I improved damn lot this year!:D although Mrs Tieh is quite scary, but she's still an experienced history teacher! I'm quite satisfied with history results!:D
Is it only me who think that cca is very inefficient? D: I'm tired of practising every cca when I'm not even sure whether I'm playing the
right thing. cca is 3 hours, yet laoshi didn't even step in for a single second, I'm not sure where went wrong. Frankly speaking, I'm not very satisfied with the idea of steamboat. I don't know why cca suddenly turns out to be so screwed!
no wonder somebody is transferring cca next year.
P.s. Sometimes I felt like quitting too.