Designing Compatible Blogs

As the web is considered to be a fluid medium, it is important for the blog to be viewable under all circumstances - with any browser or on any computer. Also it should look and function as close to the same way as possible. That is why it is advised to design for maximum compatibility.

Inevitably, choices will need to be made between compatibility and design. For example: whether to use or not to use flash animation as splash page. For it to run in all circumstances it is advised to test it extensively with many different browsers and computers. The work should be tested on both Macs and PCs.

Achieving a successful design requires inspiration, careful planning, and hard work. Besides this, of course, a few softwares are required. Here is a list of software that can be used for the various phases of the designing project:

Graphic Design

• Photoshop 7
• Adobe Illustrator 10
• Adobe LiveMotion
• Macromedia Flash 5
• Macromedia Fireworks MX
• Macromedia Freehand 10
• Graphic Converter

Web Page Construction

• Macromedia Dreamweaver MX
• BBEdit
• Lots of Trader Joe's coffee

Details Of Other Blogging Tools and Add Ons are mentioned below

• Bloglinker.com
  
  blogLinker.com is a free tool for managing web links and increasing site traffic. It can be embedded anywhere in the web page and can be easily configured to fit the existing site design.
• BlogSnob
  
  BlogSnob is an experimental service for members of the blogging community. It enables users to tell everyone in the webspace about his or her blog thru simple textbased ads.
• Reblogger
  
  Reblogger is a comment system for web logs that is designed to work with Blogger blogs and other systems as well.
• w.bloggar
  
  w.bloggar is an application that targets to be an interface between the user and his blog(s). It is considered to be a Post and Template editor, with several features and resources that the browser based blog editors can not offer.
• blogBuddy
  
  blogBuddy is a small Windows 95/NT/ME/2000/XP program written in Delphi that manages Blogger.com and other weblogs which implement the Blogger API. Features include spell checking and post editing.