A Few quick questions / Blog stuff

For 1 and 2, I use Genesis WP theme. Genesis has a very professional look. It builds credibility.

As for #3, yes, interviews don't need a contract.

1. I'm not really sure what type of text I'm using on my blog, but for one of them I'm using Sahifa theme and I enjoy the look and the fonts that come with it.

2. I typically just edit all my articles right on the wordpress it self. I don't think there's a "sweet spot" per se. However long it needs to be to get the point across. If it's a simple point, a short 500 word article is good enough. If you are trying to write a more informative article, it should be longer. However, too long of an article with redundant information or fluff is not great either. For my longer articles, I tend to create graphics, add other stock photos, include relevant videos, charts, tables, etc. This helps to read easier instead of a long wall of text. Subheadings are obviously important as well.

3. Yes, you have their consent to so I don't see why not.

1. I'm a big fan of Genesis too... but times when I make an actual choice on Text Font, I normally choose Tahoma. No particular reason other than I think it's highly readable - but I'd sure like to hear other's opinions on this issue!

2. I often write in Notepad++, simply because I often like to style my posts manually... then I just cut & paste it to a new post in Wordpress. I prefer a post length of between 1,000-1,500 or even 2,000 words. But it's absolutely key to break it up into sections, and make liberal use of bolding, italics, underlining, ordered lists, and sub-headlines. I do this for two reasons - I want to cover the topic in depth, and I want to rank for a long list of key phrases I never even thought of. If my post naturally ends at just 500 words, I'll merge it into a similar topic if possible. I'm thinking right now of doing a post on Genesis snippets, so it'll have to be a collection of them to make a decent length post. I'm not a fan of 300 word articles.

3. I would presume to offer an opinion. That's a topic best left to those who deal in legalities.

#1 - I remember reading about serif fonts being more readable than sans-serif fonts. There are some posts on that you can read online and test it out yourself to see what works best for you. Here are two of the articles about readable web fonts that I hope can give you some useful information --

1) Readable Web Fonts
2) Most Readable Font For Screen

For #2, I usually edit the fonts on Wordpress itself. You can change it from the CSS file or if it's just basic styles like bold, quote, italic and such, the features on Wordpress blog post should be sufficient. There's no rule how long your post should be and if you really want to create really good blog posts, I guess you can focus on providing information that your readers are looking for to solve their problems.

#3, No, you don't need a contract to do so. But you can always let the person know.

Thank you all for your opinions! Good information.

Check out this tool. With it, you can identify the font and font attributes used in text you see on web pages. It's for text only, though, not fonts used in images.

Fount · Identify any web font you see.

I just use the editor in Wordpress. I suppose it would be better to compose in a desktop app rather than my website, since I could lose what I've typed into the editor. But so far, I haven't had any bad luck with that.

A post should be as long as it needs to be. Or as short as it needs to be.

You could be writing on a complex subject and you may need 2000 words or more. Or, you may just be posting a quote from one of your heroes and you only need to post the quote and who said it and nothing more.

As far as juicing my posts, after I write the post, I sometimes go through and bold key phrases. I sometimes use a highlighter. Add appropriate or inappropriate images. Link out to other third part web pages...or interlink my own pages. I'll also add sub-headings...I use H2 tags for those.

There are a million things you could do to add spice to plain boring text.