{"id":289,"date":"2008-07-15T01:41:21","date_gmt":"2008-07-15T06:41:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/2008\/the-three-steps-to-creating-a-killer-blog\/"},"modified":"2008-07-15T01:43:12","modified_gmt":"2008-07-15T06:43:12","slug":"the-three-steps-to-creating-a-killer-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/2008\/the-three-steps-to-creating-a-killer-blog\/","title":{"rendered":"The three steps to creating a killer blog?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Creating a &#8216;killer&#8217; blog is not that hard to understand &#8230; but it is hard to do.<\/p>\n<p>As the title of this post suggest, there are three things you need if you want to create a &#8216;killer&#8217; blog:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Start with a great blog software.<\/li>\n<li>Get a great design.<\/li>\n<li>Produce great content.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>The list above is in order of doing, but not the order of importance: content is still king and so you must be able to produce quality content on a regular basis for your blog, otherwise it won&#8217;t work.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s look at some details &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>Great blog software<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>You must spend some time to figure out what blog software is best for you. There are many you can choose from (including several CMS&#8217;) &#8230; and you can even do it manually. This is what you should look for in a blog setup:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Easy posting of content. The blog should be easy to use.<\/li>\n<li>Syndication &#8211; automatic RSS feed creation.<\/li>\n<li>Built in search.<\/li>\n<li>Gravatar (universal avatar) support.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I personally use WordPress because it meets all of the above and it has a huge community of people actively extending its&#8217; functionality. That said, there are many other good choices out there &#8230; one of them may be better for you than my choice.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Great design<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>When I am talking design, I am talking about both how it looks (aesthetics) and I am also taking about how easy it is (from the user s perspective) to use it. Again, you will have to investigate this yourself because many times, this is personal taste.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Great content<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The first rule of web design that I learned back in 1994, was that <strong>content was king<\/strong>. You can have the best looking blog\/web site in the world but if the content sucks, no one will come back.<\/p>\n<p>Stefan Mischook<\/p>\n<p>www.killersites.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Creating a &#8216;killer&#8217; blog is not that hard to understand &#8230; but it is hard to do. As the title of this post suggest, there are three things you need if you want to create a &#8216;killer&#8217; blog: Start with a great blog software. Get a great design. Produce great content. The list above is &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,34],"tags":[36,37,30],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}