Monday, 20 February 2012

Keeping your Blog tidy and easy to navigate

One of the things your blog needs to do is to show off what you have learnt. If you blog is messy and not easy to find the content there is little point in adding content to it.

There are numerous ways to do this, but the easiest ones are by ensuring that your posts are correctly labelled and by adding tags and tag clouds.


Firstly, ensure that all posts are correctly named. To do this, simply edit the name of your post with the correct Task Number before the post and keep the same task name as that on my blog.
For example: "Research Task 7: An analysis of a music video"


Secondly, ensure that when posting onto your blog, make sure that the posts are tagged with key words. Blooger calls these 'labels' but work the same way in that you can find posts by searching through the labels or tags.

When using labels, follow this simple set of steps:
1. Add the section of your coursework, for example, research, digipack etc.
2. Secondly, add a key word or two on what the subject of this post is about, for example, clothes, analysis or mugshots.
3. Finally, add any labels which will signpost the technical skills used in this post. For example, photographs, embedded video or PowerPoint.

Your labels should also be separated by commas.
For an example, look at my posts on my blog.

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