Cornelius Blog

I decided that the best way to show you what my blog would look like is if I created it for you. My blog is called Cornelius Blog. Cornelius is part of a pseudonym that I use online. For the title banner I have used an image that I found online of Corneliusplatz in Dusseldorff Germany.

I have ideas but I am not very good at photoshop. 

DESIGN

I am not authorized to use this image so I will have to alter it in some way to make it my own. I have experimented with photoshop but I think I am going to ask my friend to help me because she is a digital design major. I have some ideas about adding anachronisms such as spray paint stencil graffiti on the walls or an oil derrick near the water fountain. I think that it is important that I incorporate some elements of design that reflect the themes of the posts on my blog. I selected a background image of the planet earth. Here is a blog that I think has a very good design, it is the The End Of The World As We Know It (TEOTWAWKI) blog. Some of the content on TEOTWAWKI blog is the kind of stuff that I would like to post on my blog. I would like my posts to focus on environmental issues more than on guns and survivalism.

CONTENT

The purpose of my blog is to express myself as a thoughtful and humorous person. I want to achieve this purpose by informing readers about matters. I am going to try and include links to news articles about scientific research and I am going to try write some critiques. I hope that I can attract commenters and that I can stimulate some meaningful interactions. I will try to feature as many photos as I can so that the blog is full of original visual content. I want my blog to promote sustainability. This weekend I am planning on doing a post about my friend's not-for-profit bike helmet organization ProHab. This is a really great organization and if you need a bike helmet then please contact Prohab or even myself and we can get you a bike helmet. Every Saturday I will try to put a photo of my cat on the blog to celebrate Caturday. Whenever I see really bad graffiti I like to evaluate it as if it were a assignment for an art class. I think that graffiti reviews are a funny way to deal with the social implications of vandalism.

AUDIENCE

The audience of this blog is my friends, my family, my classmates and most importantly myself. I don't expect that thousands of people will flock to my blog everyday. I think that blogging is therapeutic for me and it keeps me from using Facebook as a pseudo-blog. Here is a graph that Blogger has created for me in the overview section of my blog.











There was a huge surge on the second and third day after I started by blog. That was when I promoted my blog on my Facebook page and my Twitter page. Usually I will see a spike in the numbers when I post a link on my social media pages. So far I have 232 views in the first week and a half of the existence of my blog. I don't like to promote my blog too much on Facebook because that could turn people away. I try to wait until I have lots of new content on my blog before I send a link out to my followers.

This was a good opportunity for me to work on my writing and my online communication skills. The blog is still a work in progress and I hope to get my friend to help me with the visual design once we are both done our final exams. If you check out my blog then please leave a comment below to let me know what you think.

Thanks!
Cheers!
Have a great weekend!