Scheme #AtoZChallenge

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Our team theme this month is “Aspirations: Blogging hopes, dreams, and goals”.

Scheme
"A scheme is a structured plan, system, or arrangement for achieving a specific goal, often involving multiple steps or people."

A Design Scheme is about the look of your blog. The best way to know what a good design scheme for a blog is, is to look at lots of other blogs. Participating in this blog hop will expose you to a long list of active blogs, each with bloggers eager to connect. See something you especially like about a blog? Ask the blogger about it! Most bloggers will appreciate the compliment and be happy to share their knowledge. 

Sidebars are common on blogs. Found usually on the left or right side (very few blogs opt for both, as it makes posts feel small and boxy), sidebars often link fellow bloggers and followers, show badges of a blog's favorite, mention blog views, and may show related products. 

The amount of HTML or coding required to create a good design scheme depends on the host. Popular choices, such as Blogger and Wordpress, tend to have simple options for easy creation. Knowing how to resize an image is a useful skill, though several websites can do it for you. (The average width of a blog post is 600 pixels wide, whereas a sidebar is usually 200 pixels wide.)

Play around a bit with your scheme. Make your blog a reflection of your aspirations. 

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R is for Recognition #AtoZChallenge2026

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Our team theme this month is “Aspirations: Blogging hopes, dreams, and goals”.

We all like to be recognised for our work, for our achievements. Whether it is our writing skills, research skills, art skills, or day to day work, all bloggers like to see the reactions of others to what they post. We love comments, likes, shares, and other kinds of feedback. Some feel more meaningful than others; some fellow content creators' opinions are more important to us than others.

What sort of recognition do you treasure the most? Personal comments? Shares? Blogging awards?

What sort of recognition do you like to share to uplift your fellow bloggers? Comments? Posts dedicated to other bloggers? Follows on social media?

If we all support and uplift each other, blogging can be an amazing community. Take some time to recognise others' work, and share your own!

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Q is for Quality

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Our team theme this month is “Aspirations: Blogging hopes, dreams, and goals”.

When I started blogging over a decade ago, I had no idea what I was doing. I simply wrote whatever came to mind and uploaded it to my blog. There was no quality control, merely quantity.

These days, I put a lot more thought and effort into my blog posts. My goal for my blog is to have evergreen content that people can read and enjoy years after the posts have been published. I have a specific control list to make sure that each post is of the quality I strive to serve on my blog.

Because I strive for quality, not quantity, it takes a lot more time to write a blog post. But these posts have parts that can be extracted and repurposed. For example, I use parts of my folklore posts for my podcast. This feeds into my goal to have my blog’s content as accessible as possible.

What are your goals with your blog? What is the level of quality you reach for with your posts?

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