Comments on: How a Blog can Improve your Site and How it Can’t http://abelmohler.com/2010/03/01/how-a-blog-can-improve-your-site-and-how-it-cant/ My Journal Tue, 15 Mar 2011 20:03:41 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Ed http://abelmohler.com/2010/03/01/how-a-blog-can-improve-your-site-and-how-it-cant/comment-page-1/#comment-486 Ed Fri, 24 Sep 2010 15:13:54 +0000 http://abelmohler.com/?p=54#comment-486 I had great success with an architecture blog I managed for an architectural company I used to work for. I put the blog on a subdomain but made it part of the site's navigation. Visually it just shared the website's header, so it kept a nice corporate brand going through the entire site. I had great success with an architecture blog I managed for an architectural company I used to work for. I put the blog on a subdomain but made it part of the site’s navigation. Visually it just shared the website’s header, so it kept a nice corporate brand going through the entire site.

]]> By: Abel http://abelmohler.com/2010/03/01/how-a-blog-can-improve-your-site-and-how-it-cant/comment-page-1/#comment-245 Abel Thu, 18 Mar 2010 15:43:58 +0000 http://abelmohler.com/?p=54#comment-245 @Andrei: There's no one correct solution in my opinion. I guess I get frustrated if a blog becomes a section of a site without really really being a part of the rest of the site. One solution would be to build the entire site as a blog and make the static parts pages withing the blog, but that's not usually what I do. The alternative that I would propose is to link to sections or latest articles from the rest of your site to give users the ability to interact with your blog or read your latest material without needing to choose the blog from your menu and go there. I do this in a limited way, from my main website http://wayfarerweb.com/ Although my blog, this website, is a separate site completely, you'll notice on my main website, at the bottom, is a link to the latest post I've made. I wanted to do this instead of just linking to the blog without giving any indication of what was on it. @Andrei:

There’s no one correct solution in my opinion. I guess I get frustrated if a blog becomes a section of a site without really really being a part of the rest of the site. One solution would be to build the entire site as a blog and make the static parts pages withing the blog, but that’s not usually what I do. The alternative that I would propose is to link to sections or latest articles from the rest of your site to give users the ability to interact with your blog or read your latest material without needing to choose the blog from your menu and go there.

I do this in a limited way, from my main website http://wayfarerweb.com/ Although my blog, this website, is a separate site completely, you’ll notice on my main website, at the bottom, is a link to the latest post I’ve made. I wanted to do this instead of just linking to the blog without giving any indication of what was on it.

]]> By: Andrei http://abelmohler.com/2010/03/01/how-a-blog-can-improve-your-site-and-how-it-cant/comment-page-1/#comment-243 Andrei Wed, 17 Mar 2010 14:05:05 +0000 http://abelmohler.com/?p=54#comment-243 So you're suggesting having the blog spider out into the rest of your website? I don't see why a blog can't act as a governing body to your website, updating users of what's going on behind the scenes. So you’re suggesting having the blog spider out into the rest of your website? I don’t see why a blog can’t act as a governing body to your website, updating users of what’s going on behind the scenes.

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