Crazy-for-Books.com: 2010 Blog Improvement Project

Friday, February 5, 2010

2010 Blog Improvement Project - Task 1

10:43 AM | Thoughts by Jennifer (Crazy-for-Books) |

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I've decided to join the 2010 Blog Improvement Project! I'm so excited to exchange ideas with other bloggers and make our blogs even greater than they already are!!

Come join the 2010 BIP!

The Week 1 task has been posted!

Week 1: Create a Blogging To-Do List

I’ve been mulling over some things I’d like to do to make my blog more user-friendly. Specifically, I would like to:

REVIEWS:

Be able to search my reviews by author name, my star rating, and/or book title (maybe a drop-down menu?)

TAGGING:

Tag all reviews with author name

Tag all reviews with book genre

Tag all reviews with star rating

NAVIGATION:

Create a menu bar to navigate the blog easier (include links to: About Me, Reviews, Giveaways, others?)

I love Fiction Vixen's!

I also like Undercover Book Lover's navigation bar with the RSS buttons at the top; and the search box integrated into the header.

I like how Lost for Words has the navigation titles "light up" when the mouse scrolls over them; I also love the rounded sidebar boxes

SOCIAL MEDIA:

Integrate Social Media (Twitter, Facebook, others?)

Add an RSS subscription link

CONTENT:

Content other than reviews and memes - still thinking about this!

COMMENTING:

Commenting - more integration and conversation with my readers, i.e. commenting on comments

DESIGN:

Finalize new design with designer (so excited!!).

I really like the layout of Fiction Vixen with the 3 columns, but the main post column being first, with the other 2 sidebars next to that.

Since YOU are the readers, is there anything you can think of that would make my blog more appealing or reader-friendly? Is there any specific content you would like to see (or see more of?)? Is there anything here that you DON'T like?? Please be honest - I can take it! LOL It's the only way to get better!!

I'm sure this post will be updated constantly as I think of more things! I'll be reviewing other blogs and adding links here so you can view sites that I like (there are so many!).

Thanks for reading and visiting me today!!