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This site offers 110 suggestions made by actual bloggers on how to improve a blog! While a number of them cannot be applied to my course blog (I'm not collaborating with anyone else, for example), there was still plenty of relevant advice. Even though I am given the topics to cover, I can still let my own personality come through. This relates to the course outcome of performance; a blog needs to feel like it was written by a human being and not by a robot.  I could also start adding videos that contribute to my audience's understanding. I know that the sample rhetoric on the town assignment included a video of the advertisement the student had analyzed. Another good suggestion is to break up the paragraphs, which I try to do, or use bullet points. Another blogger suggests using subheads.

This I thought was a no brainer. I don't know about my other classmates, but this is my first blog and when I first found out we were going to create a blog I didn't have a clue what I was going to do. I feel much more confident with my blogging skills but may learn something from a 101 website such as this one.

Although this is foremost a retailer of products, Amazon sticks out to me as a successful model of the WWIC concept. Being able to read both customer and professional product reviews allows me to investigate a product's merits and deficincies with ease. I have joked with my wife that Amazon may know me better than anyone. The items Amazon recommends for me are often so closely aligned with my interests that I am impressed with their algorithms to determine my preferences. Occasionally this list of suggestion will contain an item of no interest to me, and I am able to simply click and delete it. Somehow Amazon manages to consult with me in a way I find highly effective.

* Good content is key. * Break up content- Make visitors feel at home (like in a house). * Semantics- Choose your words wisely. * Design- emphasis, contrast, balance, alignment. * Make it interactive- it engages people. *** good site on basics***

I like this website because it provided good information about design. It stated that simply changing the design, blog traffic and visiting time increases. Changing the design also will help readers stay on your page and not leave if the design make the blog look ugly. This is helpful because when my peers go to my blog I want them to want to read my posts and give me feedback.

I like this website because it is a fun way to show how alignment is used poorly and how it can be used well. We have all read a comic and understand that the first one on this page is hard to read because of its alignment. So this site shows exactly how important alignment is, and how you can learn to use it correctly.

Oh my this site is so awesome! I think it is really directed towards me; I have been feeling like my comic tutorial is very unorganized and not aligned. This site supplements just a short "comic-like" tutorial on alignment. I just really felt like it was a a little helpful and hopefully I have gotten good insight from it. It gave me a good idea how to organized and align my Glogster page little better

This resource is my favorite because it give all the idea of technoliteracy and it goals. This will be a good source for my project 1.

Hey guys! I'm a little behind on my work and just now got my comic tutorial draft up. I wanted to see if anyone could do a peer review on it for me, seeing as we need to talk about it in our reflection. I would greatly appreciate it and would be glad to return the favor!

This website gives ideas to help improve your Wordpress blog through personality and passion

The last way this suggested on improving my blog made me laugh. I am not getting paid for this so I guess I am doing it for the right reasons. I didn't even know people blogged for money, I just thought of it more as a Public Service announcement kind of system. Where people could vent their ideas and opinions in a structured environment where they could receive feedback on such ideas. This page helped a bit due to the simplicity of it, being crunched for time within the last week I took the very brief descriptions and began to try to incorporate these facts into my blog to see if any imporvement would come about. 

Well I retract my statement from just moments ago. THIS website really integrates everything that we have been taught thus far and brings it around full circle.

This is my favorite online writing resource by far. Purdue created an interactive module that you can go through to learn several different formats of writing. This covers APA, MLA, and CMS styles of writing and also has numerous tutorials on general writing, teaching, research, job search writing and more. The module that most concerns our project is the Visual Rhetoric module. It gives ideas on how to apply colors, visuals, fonts, and designs to incorporate into displays.

I love this website because it has something for just about anyone. I use this resource for work, helping my kids with their homework and my own homework. It has so many resources and with the different writing styles it covers helps with the different professors that I have worked with. This site will help me with Project 1 to use proper grammar and writing mechanics.

Wow! What a great tool!

Here is the link to my blog site and usability test. There are instructions as a single pdf file to be reviewed, a search to be conducted and a 13 question survey/poll afterwards. You may open the pdf file in one window and then go through the instructions in a different window to keep the pdf file accessible. I have left a section for comments/suggestions on the poll but you may add them to my blog as site as well. Thank you in advance for participating.

This is my favorite web-page out of the four website I chose to display my C.R.A.P principals. I realize this web-page is a little bit flashy however I do feel that it doesn't a good job of contrast, repetition, alignment, and proximity.

you feel that it doesn't or does:) i think this is a good website concedering ive never been on it lol but to me i think that it has a little to much going on? like i see a bunch of different type faces and sizes and colors i didnt even know were to start lol why do you think that its a good CRAP example:)

Alright I know we're only suppose to share two sites to the group but I found a third one that applies to our blogs unlike my last post. This article describes so many ways between choosing your theme, going with your gut, knowing your audience, and so much more. Overall my favorite article I found.

The best eye-catching quality to a blog is of course the design layout. So naturally one of the websites I picked as my favorite way to improve my blog is a free template layout. Enjoy!

This was my favorite of the different sites that I found on the topic of repetition. I thought that this site very closely followed what the Basic's of Design taught on the subject. The site gave a background of what repetition is and why it is important. It also gave great examples of different forms of repetition such as; repetition of a image/icon, border, or decoration. It really helped me understand why repetition is such a key component in design!

I like this article because it gives visual examples of repetition used in books, movies, and ads. 

This website has good examples of repetition and they explain it better when having an image. They have good images and good explanation.

This is my favorite of the websites that supplement my understanding of remediation because it does a great job of explaining the subject. It gives great examples of movies and events that involved remediation that I would know and this helped me understand it more. 

This article analyzing Bolter, Grusin book has fianlly helped me "get it." For some reason this was hard for me to wrap my mind around, but the way it is re-stated here is better for me.

This is a writing from Jay David Bolter and Richard Grusin that defines remediation, hypermediacy and immediacy. It has very good descriptions written in a way we can relate to by bringing in examples that are familiar to us like the movie Jurassic Park and the Pathfinder landing on Mars.

Here is my updated Course Info mindmap with course notes

A whole site dedicated to using Wordpress! There are so many themes that it's incredibly difficult to choose!  This site suggests going through the various view options, such as the front page view, single page view, and the comments, and them comparing how each appear. Is the sidebar present in all views or just some? Does the header change, etc.? The author of this site suggests going through and investigating every aspect of the new theme. The site also lists the various layout options and also suggests that content match theme. What impression do I wish my audience to have?

My blog where assignments are posted.

I like this website because has examples of color schemes that go well together. This is helpful for my peers and myself when redo our blogs.

This website gives readers step by step processes on just about anything in wordpress. I recommend that all my peers check this page out. It allows you to have an experts opinion on how to make your blog better.