One of the goals of my Digital Literacy course, for which I am making this blog, is to increase awareness thereof and effective usage of the related tools. In order to meet this goal, Steph is constantly pointing us in the way of resources that will increase our awareness and understanding of design, HTML, and other technical aspects. This week she has shared with us an article in two parts aptly titled "Principles for Good Blog Design." (don't forget Part 2)
The article contains briefs of seven important elements of a good blog. I was actually quite surprised to read that I had already incorporated almost all of them into my blog. However, I was missing one. And that one, I feel, is quite important; and that is visual appeal. When I created the blog, I wanted the design to be simple; however, as I have worked with it over the past few weeks I have discovered that it was simple the point of boring. It was done entirely in neutral colors, which was just bland and the complete opposite of my personality. So I decided, as you have probably noticed, to change the color scheme. I feel that now it is a lot more appealing to a reader. It is energetic and a little spunky, not dark and down-putting.
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