Blog Goals For the Week (for 2/5)
All of you are on the way, with blogs blogs galore on so many different topics. Can’t wait to get started.
I really like the tips here (aside from the marketing stuff) about first blog posts.
This week, we’re going to focus on a few things that I’d like to see you accomplish. You’re all starting at different levels of proficiency, but this is what I’d like to see from all of you-- just as your general goals for where you are. (we have the meme assignment too).Â
1) Remove in all obvious places the “template” text that comes with the blog format you’re using (eg: my first blog post goes here) -- so that means either writing your own text in these spots or just deleting the text that’s present. For some tips, check out:Â
This should give you some idea
 For wordpress, but same idea applies): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BA0AoaRZzvU
For wix:Â https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHmo9ZxFAU0Â (again same idea)
more complicated:Â https://codex.wordpress.org/Editing_Files
Most of your comments will already be auto-enabled, but just in case, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYUHZn2f2o0 (Wordpress); https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdUIcY_zwDw (wix): Tumblr: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6o7bPteunY
3) An about page (not your first post)
What’s your blog about? Who are you? Post a (professional) photo if you’d like, a link to your linkedin profile, or something else. Make sure to include some links too.
If your about page is your first blog post, change and repost onto a seperate about page.Â
4) Use links, add photos. Always a preference for original photos. Link to the rest of the web and to add authority to your perspective.Â
5) If you’ve done all of this already because you’re starting at pro-level, think about what you should be embedding vs. screenshotting.Â
Let’s start there for what to focus on this week. For full credit, you’ll have successfully done all of these things.Â
As part of this week’s blog post, you’re going to need to create your own original meme (yes, upload your own photo or screenshot and your own text) and then embed it into your website. Think about how you might make this shareable.
To make a meme, there are about a million sites, so https://imgur.com/memegen I dunno, that’s one.Â
Depending on your blog site and it’s CMS (or the code underlying how it actually looks) you’ll either be able to just pop a link that the site generates and “boom” it will appear (for example, Medium does this for you) -- or you’ll need to grab the embed code (which will look something like this (see embed post) -- then switch to the HTML editor version of your blog post & drop in the code between the text/pictures/ etc. where you’d like to put it. SIMPLE!