10 February 2010

Using blogs in your web site

Blogs, or 'web logs', have become a major tool for internet users. Ideal for people with little or no technical background, their use can range from anything between a personal diary to a corporate discussion board. Due to their flexibility, bogs can also be used in imaginative ways.

Recently, Kessler Associates was asked to recreate a lost web site for Whitstable Town Junior Football Club in East Kent. One of the stipulations was that there should be some method by which the managers of each of the junior teams could report on games, add photos, football tables, and the latest news.

After a little head-scratching about how to achieve this with limited means, it was decided to incorporate blogs into the site. Each team would have its own blog which would be embedded into the web site design in such a way that anyone visiting the site wouldn't even know that they were reading a blog when they reached the team news.

To that end, a lot of the standard blog formatting was removed to leave a plain white page which still contained links to older posts, and allowed text and photos to be posted by administrators (the team managers), but did not show comments, sidebar links, or any of the embedded extras that are usually associated with blogs.

Whitstable Town Junior FC web site

The final result can be seen on the Whitstable Town Junior Football Club's web site, which can be reached via the Kessler Associates web samples page.

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