“Blogroll” is just a fancy name for a list of links to sites you want to promote. A blogroll can be displayed on a sidebar or featured on its own page. I prefer creating a separate blogroll page, to keep the sidebar clean and uncluttered.
WordPress has a built-in link manager, but it can be unwieldy if you are featuring more than a half dozen or so links. Managing a large number of links is much easier if you use an RSS reader with sharing features. (However, only sites that publish an RSS feed can be managed this way. Most blogs automatically publish a feed.)
One big advantage to this approach is that the list automatically updates if you add, remove or update a feed. There’s no additional work to do once it’s set up. Here are basic instructions on how to set up your blogroll using Google Reader or Bloglines - two popular (and free) options.
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Usability Post has an interesting article about color selection as it pertains to developing a brand identity.
Here are a few examples of brands which are tied to specific colors, along with words often associated with those colors. Cymbolism is a tool for putting emotions, words and colors together. After voting on a series of words and colors myself, I used the lookup tool to see how pink stacks up. (Technically, it’s FUSCHIA. Close enough, for my purposes.)
Top 10 Words
- cute
- vanity
- dance
- silly
- female
- beauty
- romantic
- amusing
- fun
- naughty
In my About page, I identify my femininity as setting me apart in the tech world. Female, fun and beauty resonate as words I want to associate with my business. Pink/fuschia also scored with many other words I would like to claim for Pink Mandala: blissful… imagination… creative… peaceful.
What colors have you selected for your brand? What are your colors communicating?
