I find the lighter grey text colour and the font size difficult to read, especially on my laptop, sitting outside on a beautiful Sydney April Friday morning.

I had a look and neither appear to be adjustable in the presentation set up.

This is a shame as I like the broken picture at the top.

The amount of static information in the other three columns seems to draw my attention away from your actual blog content. That, too, seems to be a non adjustable feature of the template you have chosen.

Prue’s point about the blog reflecting your personality is valid – up to a point.

If the aim is to influence others through your postings then it has to be attractive to them.

Saunders paper (Chapter 3) talks about learning from people who know a bit more than us, but not too much. I suspect that the attraction of innovation is similar – we are attracted to things that are a bit ahead of where we are, but not too far.

Compare the layout of your page with the highly successful web sites, like Google and Amazon.com. Google news is a good example of the point I am making

Both put their key messages in about half of the age with the add on taking up a quarter on either side.

The overall appearance of your site is quite attractive. This is enhanced significantly by the split photo. The problem arises when I try to read or write.

Your content is great. the concern is that you prevent people reading it by making it too hard.

Welcome to the world of blogging.

I am in the EMT 1 course too and am just testing out the systems.

Regards,

John