From the course: Writing a Compelling Blog Post
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How to format your blog
- As people, we all just want to be loved and adored for the content of our character. Similarly, blogs want to be loved for the character of their content. But, just like people, blog posts do need to put some effort into their appearance to peak and maintain the interest of potential admirers. Here are a few ways you can spruce up your post to keep eyeballs engaged and readers happy through long stretches of text. The best way to break up dull gray blocks of words on the page of course, is with colorful, compelling images and video. We're a more visual society than ever before, and we expect to be shown rather than always told what we need to know. Sometimes that's easy. A men's fashion blog like Articles of Style for example, embeds gorgeous images into its posts. In this one, One Man's Trash, Another Man's Treasure, about finding and using vintage accessories, we get these beautiful photographs and the words in between are really just bridges between the eye candy. But, even on…
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