How To Write Compelling Content For Your Blog

http://www.dragosroua.com/how-to-write-compelling-content-for-your-blog/

by edragonu • 17 years ago

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onreact-com3• 17 years ago

Also make sure to use lists, citations and images in your posts. Last but not least don't make your text all bold. Yours is. Underestimating the formal aspects of readability can render a compelling blog post useless.

nollidge• 17 years ago

Also, and this is probably highly subjective, but do not make your blog light foreground on dark background. It burns my eyes everytime I switch focus from that to any other application or website I'm using.

edragonu6• 17 years ago

Yes, it's highly subjective, for me it works, it gives some contrast. People tend to be really "polarized" around this design pattern, with a 50/50 split... I guess I'm on the "use it" 50 percent :-)

edragonu6• 17 years ago

Do you see the text on my blog bold? It's a different font, but it's not bold for sure... What browser / platform are you on? Thanks.

onreact-com3• 17 years ago

It looks like this http://imgur.com/EkUmj.png on FF 3.0/Win Vista

edw519• 17 years ago

Sometimes I think that if you removed all the blogs about blogging, there'd only be 7 blogs left.

DanielBMarkham• 17 years ago

Kind of like if you removed the comments about commenting

sound2man• 17 years ago

Which 7?

pmichaud2• 17 years ago

This was interesting because it wasn't so much about how to craft compelling content, but about the business of producing content consistently.

I have several blogs that are pseudonymous, a couple of which people here have probably read. One thing I've noticed is that my popular articles fall into two categories:

1) Crystal-clear how-to articles 2) Counter-intuitive or controversial insights

Maybe I should write a step-by-step guide to forming opinions against the status quo. I'll be e-famous!

epi0Bauqu• 17 years ago

Do you do anything in particular to promote your posts, once written?

dan_the_welder2• 17 years ago

Yes, he submits them to HN, over and over again.

http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=edragonu

idlewords• 17 years ago

If you want to write well in any medium, revise, revise, revise, revise, and revise again. You may find this whittles your "content" down to nothing. This is a feature, not a bug.

ananthrk• 17 years ago

Have not read the article, but to answer the question:

By doing compelling things in your real-life and writing about them in your blog!!

edragonu6• 17 years ago

Did that too :-)

How To Write Compelling Content For Your Blog

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