Make Your Blog Accessible

Posted by scoop on April 13th, 2011 in RSS, Technical |

Blogging isn’t just about making sure that you have content that is of value to your readers, it’s also about making sure that content is accessible to all your readers. To make sure that your blog content is accessible to as wide an audience as possible here are some things you should keep in mind.

Browser compatibility – You might be more into the writing but you do need to at least know enough, or have someone that knows enough, to be able to check whether your blog is viewable using the major web browsers (IE, Firefox, Safari, Opera, etc.). There’s nothing so irritating to me than having to switch from Safari to Firefox when a website or blog doesn’t render properly.

The limiting factor – Limiting what? SPEED. You should take into consideration that not all your readers have the same computer specs and internet connection speed. Make sure your blog wil still load at a decent rate even with an ancient PC and/or a dial-up connection. You can offer an alternative slow connection speed version if needed.

RSS Feeds – I personally use a feed aggregator to keep track of blogs I like. If you do not offer feeds your chances of luring people into becoming your regular readers will be a lot less. You also have to make a decision on whether to offer just excerpts of your post on your feeds or the full text. I prefer full text for my personal blog but that depends on you purpose and frequency of posts.