This week I have been carefully relearning all the scripting languages I know. I started with xhtml/css and I was so surprised about how much I had forgotten and how some of it had changed, everything improves and changes even when we think we have mastered it. This started me thinking, “How can I use this in blogging?”, then it hit me!

The Audience

Yes, you! Many bloggers find a style and subject that suits them and always uses it. This is good, but the readers will soon get bored. So even if a blog has thousands of readers, it may be a good idea to every so often have a change of style so that the audience does not stop reading the blog as much. A lot of people blog about areas that they know about, but if they do not always keep up to date with it they may run out of information to talk about, or maybe post about things that are very out of date.
So ways to improve what you post would include:

• Know the most up to date information about what you are talking about, or it may not be very useful.
• Compare new advancements with ones posted about in previous posts.
• Ask the readers how you could improve

They are just a few examples, though I am sure you could think of hundreds of other ideas.

Design

An amazing way to improve the readers attention and introduce new members is to, as Darren Rowse has proven in the last year with ProBlogger.net, redesign the blog. This does not need to be very often, but with advancements in scripting and new “design fashions”, it is a good idea to produce a new amazing blog design. This is a good thing to do even if you already have a massive audience and an amazing design.

In the up and coming weeks I shall be writing a very long post, or maybe a series, about Blog Design so I shall not go into any more detail right now.

I hope you found this useful,
Shane Hudson