Generating a style Guide For your Blog

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1. Generating a Style Guide For Your Blog 02
2. Software Developer, Technical writer, Open source biggest fan ANITA IHUMAN 01 Twitter: Anita_ihuman, Github: Anita-ihuman Connect via:
3. What is a Blog Style Guide? 03 A blog style guide is a document that contains rules and guidelines for the content on your blog. That serves as a reference to you and for anyone contributing to your blog.
4. Why Does Your Blog Need A Style Guide? 04
5. Use it as your main source of criteria when writing and editing 05 Quality and professionalism Consistency in style and tone Build a connection with Your audience Use it as a reference to keep your own content consistent
6. 06 How to Create Your Blog Style Guide
7. Establish Your Target Audience Your style guide should be designed to communicate with a particular audience in a certain kind of way. 07
8. Choose Brand Colors. What’s your colour wheel? Decide on a set palette and keep the exact color codes on hand 08
9. Decide What Fonts and Font Sizes to use You should know the font family and font sizes that you’re working with. You can use a particular font for headings, another for subheadings, and a third for the main text. 09
10. Create Rules Around Language and Tone Consider the tone: is the content serious or playful, American English or British English, Abbreviation and the choice of words. 10
11. Create Rules For Images. Where the first image is placed in an article minimum and maximum sizes for images how images are credited what type of image are you using? 11
12. Develop a Release Schedule The pillars of a great blog are consistency and quality. Having a consistent voice will help readers connect with your brand. How many time a week do you publish an article. 12
13. Formatting. What format do you follow when organising your content in an article? Do you prefer more emojis, or pictures, or gif, or quotes? Do you like referencing resources? 13
14. Keep Your Content Style Guide Updated 14 Always make sure that when writing you follow the rules of your style guide on every publication you make.
15. 15 In summary: Put the reader first Get to the point. Organize your thoughts
16. 15 Thank you for Listening
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