A Lesson In Blog Design
Angelo here, folks, popping in (quite a rarity these days with someone else taking over the blog, and me taking over something else). Today we’re giving a lesson on blog design. And our highlight would be our sometime contributor Franky’s Am I Famous Now blog.
Am I Famous Now is, well, famous for its snark and commentary. Hey, check out Franky’s tag cloud, and you’ll see that he isn’t exactly the kindest person on the web—at least for the objects of his snark (he’s an angel to me, though).
You may notice how Franky uses proper markup in his headings. You’ve surely learned your SEO, Franky! Search engines are going to love your site.
There’s the H1 and DESCR tags on the title and description.
And then there are the H2’s for the sidebar headers.
And don’t forget blockquotes. Blockquotes are important. Otherwise, the echo chamber won’t exist.
Not exactly part of markup, but there’s the requisite Greek letter representing how far you are into developing your site or web app. Alpha, beta and gamma are for sissies. Franky is now on Kappa!
Okay, I know it’s a stab at all you strict XHTML people who would sue over missing DIV tags. But I found Franky’s take on markup quite interesting the first time I visited his site months back, and I still do so now.
I just couldn’t resist posting this, Franky.
He! Thanks for the mention.
Yeah it all started with wanting to create a semantical design, and I must admit that I miss the design, the snark of that design, bright colors and semantics, today.
I am disappointed though that you didn’t mention the Web4.0 stab.
And btw, slowly I am getting ready to return to the snark, and I think some people might not like it. You know where to find me nowadays.
franky said this on May 26, 2007 5:15 am