What is blog

In general, people understand blog as a website that records a person’s daily life and shares their own perception, also can be known as a dairy but not written in books but on a website.A blog is the motivational tool to convince people to purchase a product or service in business, a blog is also known as a regularly updated website that is used to provide information and events update.For example,lastest mother’s day promotion and details of product including how it is made and ingredients.Other than using blog for business purposes, a personal blog is a blog that shares articles and insight on specific topics.So, a blog is a website that is written by anyone that has the interest of sharing their thoughts and ideas. In fact, anyone can be a blogger.What they need to do is just write down what they want to share and publish it on a blog website. For example, sharing their fitness journey of how they get from fat to fit in 1 year.In addition, if the blog accumulates a huge number of readers. A personal blog can be upgraded into a professional blogger as there will be advertisements owners approaching professional bloggers to promote their business as a poster or video that are under or between the blog article. A professional blogger will be paid while also enjoying sharing their thoughts. There are few criteria of becoming a professional blogger including being creative and having good writing skills that attracts the eyes of readers.

Introduction

(Personal blog)

Nerd Fitness

Nerd fitness is a blog that shares everything about exercising and dieting as a newbie.For example, how to run properly.This blog stands out among general fitness bloggers as it has their own way of writing style which is more fun.For example, using jedi training as title to relates the movie star wars.It contain cartoons and has their own particular readers that can really spend a lot of time on this website. As the title has already stated that this is a nerd fitness blog, it is related to nerds. A nerd is a person that is not socially active in daily life but active online as they feel safer and more confident online.The reason may be because online does not need to show their face and their real self. Nerds spend a lot of time using computers to play games and reads.This blog will be their playground to gain knowledge on their own nerd fitness journey as there are also articles about playing games.As nerds are more likely to stay at home without exercise, this blog will provide training that suitable with beginner which means to be more easy to catch up. For example,the beginner’s type of keto diet.Other than that, as nerds stay home, there are many exercises that can be done at home titled exercise anywhere you want.

(Journalism blog)

The Guardian

The Guardian is a blog that covers everything that is happening in the world, including world news,science, sports, fashion and love.The guardian blog is a more formal blog that targets every human being that looks more like a journalism blog online.It has five categories which is news, opinion,sports,culture and lifestyle.News will be topics like corona virus and other incident that happens to affect the world .For opinion, it will be on the personal view on news and politics that is on going in the world.For example,the guardian views on american chinese relation : looking beyond government. Next will be sports which are every sport that happens in the world including football ,basketball and more. For example,Newcaster is back in the champions league.While for culture and lifestyle, it is more for food,entertainment events that are happening in the world and fashion. For example, how to cook fried rice. The Guardian provides articles that cover all topics in the world and are referring to professionals like doctors.

Update frequency

(Personal blog)

Nerd Fitness

This blog is updated frequently, which is 1 to 2 articles per week. This personal article provides a new beginner guide to exercise, gaming and living a better life.

(Journalism blog)

The Guardian

This blog is updated very fast and provides the latest news. All articles with different categories will update more than 5 articles a day.

Similarity

Two of the blogs provide similar format, which is picture followed by article and it also includes hyperlinks that lead to more information and details. Other than that, both articles show clear messages and professional content as it is referred to professionals like doctors and fitness coaches.Besides, each blog has their own comment section to engage with the readers and there are a lot of interaction between them with the readers.Two of the blog also provide their additional social media platform like facebook.

Differences : Content and Audiences

(Personal blog)

Nerd Fitness

The writing style of this blog is not formal.For example, the star wars workout. Not everyone can understand the content of this blog as the informal words that have been used may lead to misunderstanding. So, the audience which is the reader of this blog will be limited to a particular group of people and the content is limited to only nerds interested in gaming and others while not the public.Having interesting content is the most standout point of this blog as it includes cartoon and funny emoji.

(Journalism blog)

The Guardian

The writing style of this blog is formal. For example, politics in india. Everyone can easily understand the content of this blog. The audience will be a wide range of people as the content of this blog covers everyone in the world including news to lifestyle. The content is very related to the public.

Webpage layout

(Personal blog)

Nerd Fitness

The format of this blog is minimal layout which is very easy to understand and makes the audience feel clear to find the content they wanted. The layouts that provide categories are more limited as there is not much to cover other than sports and gaming. The color of this blog are more creative and gives the audience a cyberpunk gaming layout that makes this blog stand out. As this blog combines two genres which is gaming and exercise, the readers will be more likely to be attracted to this layout compared to a formal blog.

(Journalism blog)

The Guardian

The format of this blog is minimal layout which means that the layout looks professional which increases the trustworthiness of this blog, clean and direct which makes the audience find what they are looking for very quickly.There are 5 boxes that separate the categories of the news that make the blog look well arranged. Moreover, there are also different colors in different categories which makes the blog more interesting and attracts the eyes of readers to not be boring.

Tone of Writing

(Personal blog)

Nerd Fitness

The writing tone of this blog is more to use simple english words that makes the readers feel more friendly just like reading a story book. The funny pictures and cartoons make the tone more free and interesting. The words are more to cartoon comics and emphasize a funny mood when readers are reading blogs .

(Journalism blog)

The Guardian

The writing tone of this blog is using a formal news website style and makes the audience feel more professional and more trusted. It will make the readers feel like reading a newspaper with more scientific English words. Reading too formal articles may lead to boring feelings but this blog does a great job in using color to spice up the important words.

User Navigation

(Personal blog)

Nerd Fitness

The user navigation of this blog is not formal and very minimal.there are just 4 grids. The logo of this blog will be on the top left then continue with the free articles which are the written articles for the readers.Continue by home workout that guild readers to workout at home, about us which explains the use of this blog and lastly the coaching for register courses. This user navigation is more minimal as this blog is more of a business used blog which focuses on selling courses.

(Journalism blog)

The Guardian

The user navigation of this blog is more formal and provides many different categories with much content. From news,sports to daily life.There are many details on getting readers to sign up for this blog as this is a reader funded blog. So, there are words like support us and sign in beside the searching panel.

Multimedia Element

(Personal blog)

Nerd Fitness

There are a lot of videos that are linked to youtube videos. As videos are more interactive compared to pictures.

(Journalism blog)

The Guardian

The news that is reported will be on youtube platform to show that the news is real.

Tactics and Earning

(Personal blog)

Nerd Fitness

This blog is a business blog, so the main earning is through selling coaching classes. As people who read the article are people who have interest in exercise, the reader may become interested in finding a coach.

(Journalism blog)

The Guardian

This blog has a wide range of readers, so the amount of readers are the earning of this blog. As the number of the readers are a lot and they trust and like the blog, they would wish this blog to continue uploading articles. There are also words that stated tht this is readers funded blog.