Comments on: Smarter Web Design and Would You Like a Blog With That? http://www.thinkinghomebusiness.com/2005/11/29/smarter-web-design-and-would-you-like-a-blog-with-that/ Work from home | social media for home based business | Des Walsh | mentor coach Sun, 29 Jan 2012 08:39:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Anonymous http://www.thinkinghomebusiness.com/2005/11/29/smarter-web-design-and-would-you-like-a-blog-with-that/comment-page-1/#comment-153 Anonymous Sat, 10 Dec 2005 07:00:53 +0000 http://www.thinkinghomebusiness.com/2005/11/29/smarter-web-design-and-would-you-like-a-blog-with-that/#comment-153 Nick Great comment, thanks. Next time I'm asked I'll have your comments and Naina's ready (with attribution of course!). I know how to find <a href="http://www.aside.in/blog/" rel="nofollow">Naina's blog </a>but don't know how to find your Workplace Visions, so feel free to leave a url here. Des Nick

Great comment, thanks. Next time I’m asked I’ll have your comments and Naina’s ready (with attribution of course!). I know how to find Naina’s blog but don’t know how to find your Workplace Visions, so feel free to leave a url here.

Des

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.thinkinghomebusiness.com/2005/11/29/smarter-web-design-and-would-you-like-a-blog-with-that/comment-page-1/#comment-151 Anonymous Sat, 10 Dec 2005 06:52:38 +0000 http://www.thinkinghomebusiness.com/2005/11/29/smarter-web-design-and-would-you-like-a-blog-with-that/#comment-151 Naina Thanks for the very thoughtful comment. I'm fairly clear that the person who said it would be expensive simply didn't know what was involved and maybe didn't want to know! People like to stay in their comfort zones. Des Naina

Thanks for the very thoughtful comment. I’m fairly clear that the person who said it would be expensive simply didn’t know what was involved and maybe didn’t want to know! People like to stay in their comfort zones.

Des

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.thinkinghomebusiness.com/2005/11/29/smarter-web-design-and-would-you-like-a-blog-with-that/comment-page-1/#comment-152 Anonymous Sat, 10 Dec 2005 06:03:13 +0000 http://www.thinkinghomebusiness.com/2005/11/29/smarter-web-design-and-would-you-like-a-blog-with-that/#comment-152 Blogs ain't expensive. If your web host provider has blog software, such as WordPress in their control panel, the blog can be installed within your website with the click of a button. If a blogger happens to have experience in designing websites, but not in PHP programming, they can design a theme themselves and outsource to a php programmer to convert the design. For example, I am starting a new blog called Workplace Visions. Being a former web designer, I design my own websites, and outsource any programming work. For my blog, Workplace Visions, I have given the task of converting my design to a WordPress theme to Elegant Webscapes. The cost to me, $75 for the coding. Blogs ain’t expensive. If your web host provider has blog software, such as WordPress in their control panel, the blog can be installed within your website with the click of a button. If a blogger happens to have experience in designing websites, but not in PHP programming, they can design a theme themselves and outsource to a php programmer to convert the design. For example, I am starting a new blog called Workplace Visions. Being a former web designer, I design my own websites, and outsource any programming work. For my blog, Workplace Visions, I have given the task of converting my design to a WordPress theme to Elegant Webscapes. The cost to me, $75 for the coding.

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.thinkinghomebusiness.com/2005/11/29/smarter-web-design-and-would-you-like-a-blog-with-that/comment-page-1/#comment-150 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov 2005 20:11:16 +0000 http://www.thinkinghomebusiness.com/2005/11/29/smarter-web-design-and-would-you-like-a-blog-with-that/#comment-150 Des, It is not that incorporating a blog is an "expensive" proposition. I am surprised that a designer would take the risk of saying that when open source and free blogging platforms like Wordpress are available. It isn't the blog incorporation that is expensive - considering that the designer/programmer is not expected to design a blog portal from scratch - it's the design that needs work. Usually since the designer is designing the website, he/she will use the same look for the blog template as well. This doesn't mean that the designer will simply have to copy code - he/she will have to use images and icons and fonts and integrate it with the blogging platform of choice. For example, Wordpress can be customized using innumerable templates, freely available on the web [ and a designer cannot use those templates for commercial purposes ] - he/she will change icons, header images, layout, color schemes, fonts etc. to make the look more suitable to the client's website. And I suppose that this would be the "expensive" bit - afterall, on the online medium, literally "everyone" has a blog and unless your blog looks "different" - there's no fun eh! No one wants to have "just another blog". Cheers! <a href="http://www.aside.in/blog" target='_blank' rel="nofollow">Naina</a> Des,

It is not that incorporating a blog is an “expensive” proposition. I am surprised that a designer would take the risk of saying that when open source and free blogging platforms like WordPress are available.

It isn’t the blog incorporation that is expensive – considering that the designer/programmer is not expected to design a blog portal from scratch – it’s the design that needs work. Usually since the designer is designing the website, he/she will use the same look for the blog template as well. This doesn’t mean that the designer will simply have to copy code – he/she will have to use images and icons and fonts and integrate it with the blogging platform of choice.

For example, WordPress can be customized using innumerable templates, freely available on the web [ and a designer cannot use those templates for commercial purposes ] – he/she will change icons, header images, layout, color schemes, fonts etc. to make the look more suitable to the client’s website.

And I suppose that this would be the “expensive” bit – afterall, on the online medium, literally “everyone” has a blog and unless your blog looks “different” – there’s no fun eh! No one wants to have “just another blog”.

Cheers!

Naina

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