Creating your Blog

Purpose, design, content, and audience are important when putting together any writing piece that is meant for others to see. This is true when it comes to blogs as well. Many different blogs address many different content focuses and are meant to appeal to many different audiences. No one blog looks the exact same, but with each blog I come across they all seem to serve the same high level purpose.  That purpose being to share thoughts, opinions, ideas, feelings, and facts about a particular subject. How wonderful it is that we have the option of freely sharing anything we want in the cyber world through bloggling. It is a wonderful way to connect with yourself and others around you.
It is important to choose the purpose of your blog. Purpose is the foundation of everything. It allows you to keep a focus on what you are trying to achieve in your blog. The purpose of my blog is to meet and exceed the goals placed by our instructor for this class. It is to demonstrate my understanding of communications to the best of my ability.
Design is also important when creating a blog. Your design should be an expression of your purpose and is meant to create the tone of what you are writing. I chose a blue sky and dandelion as my background design. To me, that added a calming tone to my blog. I hope it allows readers to feel at ease when they are reading my posts. It is important to pick colors and fonts that are easy on the eye, so the reader doesn’t feel strained when they are reading your posts.
The content and audience go hand in hand. You want to make sure your content will appeal to who you want your audience to be. For this particular blog my content will be about communications and will fall within the guidelines given to me by the professor. The audience will be my classmates and my professor. I need to make sure that I address all of the questions put in front of me in a detailed manner so my audience can understand my message.