Well the advice from the cpd23 blog about completing 'thing 3' mentioned that someone took 3 weeks to decide upon their blog domain name, and an hour to brand the blog! This was a bit surprising to me. I guess I am a bit impatient and I hadn't considered about my domain name before I started my blog. I'm not sure if I'd change mine now anyway... it's out there in the universe so I guess it'll have to stay.
As for my branding, after some playing about, I feel that my blog looks like sunny days and picnics! I suppose I want to make my blog look attractive as it is my space... my blog is going for the 'profersonal' approach mentioned in the cpd23 guidance. My colleagues blogs are pretty cool I noticed... I am envious of http://becthelibrarian.blogspot.com/?v=0 and the spacey theme.
I googled myself, and google told me lots of interesting things about all the other Jemma Francis' in the world. I had a slight shock, found my name on one not so good website... Ummmm I don't think I'll be googling my name again... ;o)
Maybe I'll add some information about myself to the blog. I did add a blog description, but I just find when I come back to it every week, I've learnt something new and I want to change a little something on my blog to reflect that. So my branding is a work in progress... I might change something every week til I can feel it's what I'm completely happy with.
Thing 4 next week!!
I think your blog design is excellent: clear, visually interesting and clearly has strong and positive resonance for you. I'm enjoying reading about your experiences.
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