Thursday, January 26, 2017

Blog Comment List

I commented on these blogs:

Nicole Blea
Marcela Valdez
Michael Phillips
Terrell Jones
Katie Cavenee
Davina Croft
Jordyn Getz
Priscila Jourdan
Sonya McArthur

All the blogs are so unique, I really enjoyed them!

Week 1A: Template

This is my very first blog post EVER, so here it goes!

After browsing through the available blog templates, I decided to completely customize my blog.  I take a lot of pictures, and so I decided to use one of them as my background.  This is a picture I took while hiking the trails near my house.  I intend to work as a real estate agent at some point, so I thought my future blog template should have some association with the area that I will work in.  I think this picture expresses the natural beauty of the area.  I especially like the look of the purple flowers scattered on the street.  You might need to scroll down to see those.

The font I chose for the blog is called Nobile.  I chose it because I thought that it was the most readable font to use for screen reading.  It is a sans serif font that looks very clean.  I chose Philosopher for my title font.  The title is so large there is no question about readability, so I could use a serif font to contrast with the Nobile.  I chose a very large font size for the blog text, again, for readability.  For the blog text font color, I chose a very dark red.  It looked better than using true black.

For the background color behind the text, I used violet to coordinate with the purple flowers.  While I was developing my template, I tried several different background colors.  I could not find one that I liked as well as the violet.  However, I'm not sure the violet looks professional enough.  I'm open to suggestions on background color if anyone would like to comment.

Overall, I like the way the blog looks on the computer screen.  I don't think the mobile version is as good.  I attempted to improve it without much success.  I'm hoping that as we all discuss the templates, I will find a way to improve the mobile version.

I'll close for now...