What I wish you’d do in your blog
This entry was posted on January 31, 2008
I read a lot of blogs. I’m not that picky about what I read, but I do like techy blogs and personal blogs. However, recently a lot of blogs seem to be a bit stale, my own included. We seem to be re-hashing the same stuff with different words. What we need is some “oomph”, so, here’s my list of things I wish you do with your blog.
Educate me
I’m a fairly intelligent person, but I always love an opportunity to expand my knowledge. So, educate me with your blog! Tell me something I didn’t know already. Show me a new CSS technique. Teach me about PHP security risks. Englighten me!
Give me advice
I tend to offer a fair amount of helpful advice in my blog. As I learn stuff and overcome problems, I share those solutions with people in case they’re having the same problem. Beat me to it! Offer advice on choosing a colour scheme for my next layout. Tell me about why I should care what screen resolution my visitors are using. Help me out with making my site more compatible for mobile phone browsers.
Challenge me
Tell me everything I know is wrong. Show me why I should stop caring about IE6 users. Tell me why I need to keep my code up to scratch and why it’s important to validate my markup. Challenge my thoughts on usability. Force me to think differently about the way I do things.
Ask me a question
I don’t often comment on a lot of blogs; I tend to me more of a lurker than a commenter. This is usually because I’m not sure what to say in response to an entry. I find it a lot easier to comment if I’m asked a direct question as a visitor. So, ask me a question! Ask for my opinion, ask me for advice, ask me for anything.
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Um… I’m not that good at PHP. Plus, I do enough coding at work… I really don’t feel like educating outside work…
Also, I asked a question the last two blogs… but sometimes I don’t really feel like asking anything. I just want to tell a story.
I like asking questions when the opportunity presents itself, but I can usually comment with anything related about myself. I think I talk about myself too much in comments 
Hmmm, I think I have something educational to say about coding…
Everything you know is wrong. ;p
So, we can only blog about coding is what you’re saying? OBJECTION! *blogs about stupid* 
You can blog about whatever you’d like. These are only things I’d *like* you to blog about.
But you already know why you should care about the resolution your readers are using and why it is important to validate your code, don’t you?
Anyway, I just blogged about shortcuts. I hope that’s (at least a bit) helpful.
I just blog about whatever is in my head. I’ve written a few of my own unique illustrator tutorials, based on tricks I’ve learnt randomly myself.
But I wouldn’t really bother teaching any CSS or PHP for fears of it being basic.
I guess I could teach a few people on focus for forms and boxes, changing the colours…but I learnt that off rose first about 2 years ago!
hm…
Great post 
I usually post questions at the end of my post, but I hardly ever bother with advice or help, since I don’t really have anything to advise on.
I educate people! I educate people about Holland.. Surprisingly enough, there aren’t that much people that want to know stuff about it xD
I feel the sudden urge to delete my last entry, and make a super-fantastical entry and follow your wishes!
Thanks for the tips - I’ve been having a bit of a blog-ideas drought recently, although I’m slowly overcoming that by writing my ideas down (Google Notebook FTW!)
My blog entries don’t fall into any of these categories… I don’t think I’m capable of doing anything you listed (doing it right, anyway XD)
This was interesting actually, I KNOW my blogs are usually rather boring, lol.
Problem is, I’m most likely less-skilled than most people to begin with, so I can’t teach anyone anything!
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Aisling said:
I once educated people about photosynthesis. It was random, but I got a lot of comments…
Do you have any other burning Biology questions?