A tour-de-formatting
Loading ...Continuing what we discussed today, here’s a tour-de-formatting, so you know what’s available for you to use to better write your posts.
By the way, this introduction paragraph is styled as H6 (it’s a new formatting I added for that purpose exactly. You can choose it from the formatting drop-down menu available by expanding the editor link, or by wrapping your tags with <h6> and </h6> in the HTML mode.
Sub Titles
I’m using <h3> for subtitles (like here above), they are very useful to screen through a post and as we discussed in class, to make sure that even if you haven’t read the whole thing, you still know what the post is about and where in it you might find the content you’re interested in.
Block-Quotes
This is something you’ve all been using and is proving itself. From time to time it suffers an over use. If you want to quote someone, please choose the actual part worth quoting. Otherwise, either link to it or include it in a paragraph. It is hard to read long text in a block quote format as you are probably starting to noticed towards the end of this segment.
Here are some bullet points, look how useful they can be:
- Use the titles wisely they are the most likely elements of your posts to detemine if the reader will continue reading it.
- Use videos wisely, they are time consuming and we will not necessarily watch them.
- Use images wisely and size them responsively. You don’t want your post to become heavy on images and hard to read. You can change the size of images either using an image editor before uploading (preferable) or after, through the image dialog box. The size of our post column is 530 pixels.
- Bloggers tend to use the Strikethrough just for fun to correct text they posted earlier. This is mainly used when updating a post after it was already published.
- When writing a long post it is polite to use the ‘more’ tag to break the post from the main page. In general though, you are loosing readers for doing that, so just try to keep your posts short and sweet, or well formatted enough to be accessible.
- Clean formatting – When pasting text from an external source (mainly text editors) try to make sure you don’t have some formatting leftovers that you don’t like. There are a couple of pasting options like the:
- Paste As Plain Text – gets rid of formatting and just pasts the text
- Paste from Word – safely maintains the formatting of Microsoft Word documents and some other word processors, without including junk tags
- Remove Formatting – gets rid of formatting after you’ve already pasted them. select the text you want to clean first.
- Use Bold when it makes sense.
Tags
Tags are super useful both to identify the post and to make connections. I would recommend each one of you chooses a unique tag for your travelogue so each post in the series contains links to other relevant posts. If you use the tags correctly these posts will indeed be relevant. Try to be consistent with the tags. Remember travelogu3 is not the same tag as travelogue 3 or travelogue-3.
That’s all for now. Enjoy.
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