Stealing Like an Artist

This week, we had to find another blog that pertained to our projects. I found a blog called Beauty and the Armageddon and it is close to what i am going to do on my blog. It has a bunch of reading challenges for 2014 and has a lot of books that I have read and enjoyed or have not read but want to. Also, there is a whole section of book reviews, which are how I want to review my books and movies because they are short and simple to read but also get the point across. The reviews also have a brief description of the book, which is another thing I want to add in my blog. 

I really enjoy the layout of this blog because it is simple to navigate and also to read. Clearly the person using this blog is passionate about it and wants to make the reader feel as welcome to the site as possible. 

I want to make my blog very similar to this blog except I will obviously be comparing the book to its movie rather than just reviewing the book. I am also going to put polls and surveys into my blog, which this blog does not include. 

I really like the idea of putting in a reading challenge, even if it has nothing to do with book v. movie. I think that I could add it into another tab of my blog, and post all the books I have read this year along with books I want to read, and then maybe have another category just for the books that I want to read that have corresponding movies with them so people know which ones I will be reviewing in the future so they can read them as well. 

New Blogging Sites

This week, we have to find three different websites to work with and find the best one to build a whole website for. Since I am going to be blogging and vlogging, I am not looking for a website to make, I am looking for blogging websites. I found Tumblr, WordPress, and Weebly. 

I really liked Tumblr, but at my school the site is web-sensed, so it is hard to get into and isn't worth it. I liked the different themes to do and it seemed like a really user-friendly site, but I am not going to use it because it is too complicated for the uses that I need for this semester.

I disliked WordPress because for some reason, I was unable to get past the home screen. I logged in many times but I could not find how to direct where I wanted to go, so I decided I would not use it. 

I really enjoy Weebly. I think that I will keep this blog and use it for my semester project because it is very simple to use so far, it directs me exactly where I need to go to get it started, and I really like how many themes it had and how I could change the colors of them easily. 


Below is the link to my Weebly website. 

Book v. Movie

To name my website, I read a few different articles on how to think of a name that would fit my article best. One told me that I should first think of exactly what I was going to put in my blog. At that point, I knew I wanted to do book or movie reviews, but I knew that it was too broad of a subject for just one blog, so I had to make it more specific. I decided that my blog is going to compare the movies that I have seen that were made from books that I have read, and then open it up to the public to also decided by creating a poll that they can use. Once I figured out my plan exactly, the article said that I should make the name easy, short, and let the reader know exactly what the website was for, just by reading the title of it. I chose Book v. Movie because it is short and I think it tells exactly what I am doing in the blog. 

Popplet

This week I made a Popplet to help me figure out my plan for this semester.

My Popplet