What I did…

Today I played around with setting up the organizational structure of my blog. I was able to make some decisions about my blog’s menu and pages, in order to help my reader easily navigate my blog posts. I decided that I will start out with two main menu options, “About” and “Posts.” The About me page is a quick description of who I am and what my intentions are for this blog. The “Posts” tab will lead to a drop down menu with posts separated by project. “Project 1″ and “Project 2″ are the only pages I have up now. I plan on adding more to my menu as the semester continues.

Why I did it…

I really want this site to be easy to navigate, visually pleasing, and simple. I hope to accomplish the navigational aspect of this site first, setting up all the widgets and menus and settings before I dive into the visually pleasing phase. I kept the menu to two main pages, “About” and “Posts” because I could not think of a more simplistic menu. I am considering changing the title “Posts” to “Projects,” but since right now I only have posts for project 2 I am going to leave it. For me, I think that the hardest part of setting up this blog is the terminology. When I am deep into settings and the options are “box file sharing” and “category cloud” and you can assign them to the side bar, footer, footer 1, etc… it is hard to visualize the corresponding change it will make to my blog. I feel like I am moving at turtle speed with this website, but I think once I get the hang of it I can make a really nice looking blog.