Comments on: How to Start a Business Blog, Part 7: Design Considerations http://michaelmartine.com/2007/08/14/business-blog-design/ Remarkable Blog Consulting and Coaching Tue, 07 Oct 2008 00:35:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Michael Martine http://michaelmartine.com/2007/08/14/business-blog-design/#comment-61190 Michael Martine Thu, 16 Aug 2007 14:19:23 +0000 http://www.michaelmartine.com/2007/08/14/business-blog-design/#comment-61190 @Oliver, Thanks for commenting. Yes, content production can take place as early as possible. Often your flagship or pillar content isn't quite as connected to current events as other posts, so they can be written far in advance of ongoing work with other aspects of the blog. @Oliver, Thanks for commenting. Yes, content production can take place as early as possible. Often your flagship or pillar content isn’t quite as connected to current events as other posts, so they can be written far in advance of ongoing work with other aspects of the blog.

]]> By: Oliver Bockelmann http://michaelmartine.com/2007/08/14/business-blog-design/#comment-61067 Oliver Bockelmann Wed, 15 Aug 2007 09:15:26 +0000 http://www.michaelmartine.com/2007/08/14/business-blog-design/#comment-61067 Hi. I followed a link from Tadeusz (SEO 2.0) and had a look at your business blog guideline set. Good idea to work out some rules like that. Well done. Regarding the design issues I recognized that design becomes more and more important since open source templates are available for everyone with much better quality than ever before. I agree with you that it`s important for people running a business blog to carry the companies brand. I suggest to start with a template meeting the requirements and keep in mind that the first result will never be the end of the story. When you start rethinking your blog later on you will like to make changes to this and that. A blog is a living source and design is a thing that really likes to live with you, too. So in my opinion it is important to start producing content as soon as possible having design and usability issues always in your mind. A blog is something to live with and I`m sure I will have to do some changes on my own blog very soon. Thanks for this reminder, Michael. ;-) Hi. I followed a link from Tadeusz (SEO 2.0) and had a look at your business blog guideline set. Good idea to work out some rules like that. Well done.

Regarding the design issues I recognized that design becomes more and more important since open source templates are available for everyone with much better quality than ever before.

I agree with you that it`s important for people running a business blog to carry the companies brand. I suggest to start with a template meeting the requirements and keep in mind that the first result will never be the end of the story. When you start rethinking your blog later on you will like to make changes to this and that. A blog is a living source and design is a thing that really likes to live with you, too. So in my opinion it is important to start producing content as soon as possible having design and usability issues always in your mind. A blog is something to live with and I`m sure I will have to do some changes on my own blog very soon. Thanks for this reminder, Michael. ;-)

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