So what's a blog?

A blog is a personal diary. A daily pulpit. A collaborative space. A political soapbox. A breaking-news outlet. A collection of links. Your own private thoughts. Memos to the world.

Your blog is whatever you want it to be. They come in all shapes and sizes, and there are no real rules.

In simple terms, a blog is a web site, where you write stuff on an ongoing basis. A blog is a web page that contains brief, discrete bits of information called posts. These posts are arranged in reverse-chronological order (the most recent posts come first), so your visitors can read what's new. Then they comment on it or link to it or email you. Or not.

Some additional information on blogs can be found here.

Want to start your own blog site?

Looking to start your own blog site? Here are some blog sites that offer ways to get you started:







desktop weblogging application for Mac OS X.

Companies that do blogging well

Here's a list of a few companies that do blogging well:

1- Google [of course].
2- Monster
3- Sun Microsystems [Jonathan Schwartz]
4- Java.blogs

EBay bid for blogger hits $1,500

Wright also writes the Ensight.org Weblog, concentrating on business and technology. He founded the blog and says he has sold it to an American company for $15,000! Read more about it here.

Case Study: Re-architecting PeopleSoft.com from the bottom up

Chiara Fox's article covers how in December 2001 PeopleSoft, a large enterprise software company, relaunched its public website, and customer and partner extranets, Customer Connection and Alliance Connection. It took 11 months and more than 60 people to redesign and build the information architecture and graphic identity, build the technical infrastructure, migrate and rewrite existing content for the new content management system, test it, and finally publish the new site live.

An introduction to personas and how to create them

Before embarking on any intranet or website design project,it is important to understand the needs of your users. Tina Calabria's article offers some great tips on what personas are and how they can help make your web site successful.

Hicksdesign web site

Check out Jon Hicks web site...the creator for the Firefox logo.

Usability...again

Here's a web site by Anitra Pavka. Interesting thoughts on Web standards, usability and accessibility. Oh, and she’s really nice too! Her home page is a Weblog of breaking Web accessibility news, articles, and upcoming events. Since accessibility is an integral part of usability, she also tiee in major usability resources and information. Check it out here.

For the photographer buff

Browse around Adam Polselli's web site. Terrific use of photos and a very unique and appealing design. Go here.

Return of Design

Let’s start talking about the “design” part of Web design again. Read the article here.

Article courtesy of Asterisk.

The Internet is fun...again

Firefox has launched it's long awaited broswer version 1.0. Download it here and rediscover the web.