This week’s Blog Improvement Project project is one that I am always worried about: maintenance and information location/availability.
I’m horribly worried that I don’t have info available that people need, or that I’ve inadvertently hidden some important information somewhere. I also worry a lot about my sidebar, and tags, and categories. So basically, I worry a lot about how my blog looks and how easily people can find what they want. (Luckily I don’t worry so much about the content.)
For this week’s Project, Kim wants us to improve/update parts of our blog that may need it. Here’s the tasks:
* Write (or update) your “About Me” Page — Make sure you can see your About Me from the main page of your blog because someone just arriving at the site should be able to easily see a little information about you
* Update your contact information
* Add some sort of picture of yourself (if you’re comfortable with that)
* Update your Blogroll — Blogging Startup has a good series on blogrolls starting with “Does My Blog Need A Blogroll?” — check out some of the other entries, they’re pretty short and interesting
* Create a link to your Archives on your front page (there are a lot of widgets for this, or you can find other ways to do it — either way, it’s important to do so people who want your archives can find them to get a sense of what they can expect from your blog)
* Add a link (or make sure a link is there) so readers can subscribe to your blog via RSS
* Get to work on other basic blog maintenance you’ve been meaning to do
I’ve done a few of these recently, actually, but it wouldn’t hurt to see if I can make them even better. Of course, some of them I can’t really do– I already have an Archive widget up, for instance. However, my blogroll needs a lot of work, so that should keep me busy for a while.
What are you planning to update on your blog? What sort of maintenance are you planning on undertaking?
Loading ...
