Nice to see you again readers! I am sorry that I haven’t been posting for a while but here is an interesting post to throw at you and keep you entertained. In class, I created four blog template sketches of what I might want my blog to look like, layout, color, title, and all. If you didn’t know, this blog is currently named, ‘Clara’s Blog’ and I don’t intend it to stay that way. My aim is to make my blog interesting and eye catching! They all include gadgets. posts, titles, and pictures. Here is the first one.
It’s called the “Cat’s Meow.” If you didn’t notice, I like cats. In fact, I love them, but I also like dogs and all other animals including squirrels and wolves. (Emeline…) My tabs include, Home, Cats, Books, School, Stories, and Other. Home, just contains most of my regular posts, also some gadgets, and photos. The cat tab has posts about cats and pictures of some of my cats. The book post is also pretty self explanatory. It involves posts about books I’ve read, books I like and don’t like, and other books information like opinions, polls about books, and a few gadgets about books if I can find any. At school, I am in a club called creative writing. I love to write and am pretty creative, but my stories can get super random. The stories tab will have some stories that I created, plus poems and other writing. It will also have quotes of the day and the word of the day gadgets. The ‘other’ tab will include things like an about-me page and more pages. The “Cat’s Meow” will be a colorful, interesting, and easy-to-read blog the makes readers become hooked. Some of the gadgets on the homepage will include ‘search this blog’, ‘archives’, ‘follow by email’, ‘translate’, ‘blog-stats’, and other gadgets that will help the reader navigate my blog. 
I have three more sketches. My second one (left) is called ‘Candy for Clara’.
The tab labeled ‘The Candy Shop’ is basically the home tab. It has important and regular posts, pictures, and gadgets on that tab. And like ‘The Cat’s Meow’ the Cat, School, and Book tab include the same thing, posts, pictures, and gadgets (polls) about cats, school, and books. ‘More’ is just a place where the other posts and tabs go like ‘about me’ and other things. This sketch has a white background, but pretty eye popping pink text-box that will catch the reader’s eye. It didn’t come out very well in the scan but it looks better in real life. I also have a cat avatar on the left side of my banner. This design has less eye-catching colors which creates a more soothing look so that readers can read a lot of posts without their eyes starting to hurt. But it just has enough color to make it look interesting and inviting. 
Here is the third blog design I created. It’s title is ‘Clone Corp’. This is an example of a totally off-topic and random post. In the post I wrote, I said that I work at a company called Clone Corporation. A made-up company that makes clones and comes out with new generations. That, obviously, is not true and might throw the readers off. It is so random and clearly false that most readers might actually avoid my blog because of the false information and crazy posts. Therefore, I am probably not going to use it for my real blog. But, some things I really like about this design is the dark brown background. It makes the text box where the blog post is written in stand out. Also, what I like about this sketch is all of the gadgets. In my blog, I will definitely make sure to add a link gadget, ‘word of the day’, ‘what’s in season?’ (I think it is a pretty cool gadget) and others. Also, the layout of this design is my favorite because the gadgets not only stretch down either side, but they also go along the bottom. The tabs that I drew also add a nice touch, looking like a rolled up scroll. The avatars on the banners is another good idea. I will make sure to add avatars on my blog as well.
ππ And, last but not least… (definitely not least!) Pie et Pi! ππ
This blog sketch is called ‘Pie et Pi’. Both pie’s referring to the number, pi and the pastry, and the word ‘et’ meaning ‘and’ in French. The number, just incase you didn’t know is a never endless number. If you are wondering what exactly this number is, here is a direct paragraph from Wikipedia.
The number π is a mathematical constant that is the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter, and is approximately equal to 3.14159. It has been represented by the Greek letter "π" since the mid-18th century, though it is also sometimes romanized as "pi" (/paɪ/).
You can click on the word ‘Wikipedia’ above to learn more. I can recite a whole lot of pi, (actually not that much) and love to memorize more. This is what I know:
3.14159265358979323846264338327950288419716939937510582097494459230781. If you want to memorize some of pi, you can go onto piday.org. But anyway, this design has a few of my favorite and most important (in my opinion) gadgets including, ‘translate’, ‘follow by email’, ‘search this blog’, ‘Word of the day’, ‘Kelly the virtual cat’, (or some virtual animal like that) and more. I also, want to include a dessert gadget if there is one. This blog sketch, has pretty much the same tabs as all of my designs. Home, School, Books, Cats, Stories, About Me, and Other. I like this design because, in my opinion, it is the most neat and organized sketch I made. I also think that the design of the textbox looks nice, it looks like it is taped on with strips of tape. Also, the URL in the box above, is basically pi, all of the numbers I could fit in with the word pi and a dash (-) before it. I also, if I choose this template, want to have a pie and pi background. I am basically aiming for a background with both, the symbol of pi (π) and a small doodle of the pastry (pie). Up, in the top right corner of my banner, I have a cat avatar. Actually, I don’t think it is possible to have an avatar as a cat, but if it is, I will definitely have one. If I do use this design, I want the words in the title to have a theme like in the drawing. In the word pie, I want the dot in the i to look like a cherry and the letters to be red and brownish, like a cherry pie.The ‘et’ can be blackish or grey and the pi can be a green color. My final decision is hard to make. My aim is to combine all of my designs into one. For example, I like that title, The Cat's Meow and Pi et Pie. I will choose one of those two for my final title. Also, I think that in the Clone Corp sketch, the dark brown background with the light white background in front looks really nice! It certainly stands out and is really eye-catching! I intend to use that dark background in my final blog. There are pros and cons of each blog sketch I created. Here are my final decisions:
Title of Blog: The Cat's Meow or Pie et Pi, now officially The Cat's Meow
Gadgets/widgets: Search this Blog, Follow by Email, Archives, Visitor number, Virtual pet, Poll, Word of the day, Translate, What's in Season?, Links, Quote of the day, and more. If you have in recommendations, let me know.
Colors: Dark brown (maybe woodgrain) background, white text box, and colorful titles. Pages will be different colors and a variety of patterns if I am able to do that. Now, the background is officially a red and orange fall leaf pattern. If you think that it is too distracting, please comment.
Design/Theme: Cats, pie/pi, and writing and reading. Mostly cats and pi/pie though.
Pages: Home, School, Books, Pi/pie, Cats, Stories, and About Me/ Profile. Anything else? Please comment.
Banner: Title and Avatar of a cat if I can. If you can't make cat avatars than I will create an avatar that looks somewhat like me.
URL: Depending on the title of my final blog. If it turns out to be The Cat's Meow, than I will have
http://www.thecatsmeow-kittypi.blogspot.com. If the title turns out to be Pie et Pi, the URL will be:
http://www.pi=3.1415926&pie=pastry.blogspot.com
or maybe
http://www.pi-3.1415/or/pastry.blogspot.com
Bravo for finally reaching the end of this never-endless blog post (just like pi!)! If you read through this whole post at least, not just skipped to the bottom. I worked very hard on it but I doubt you read it all. Really, if you did, you truly are amazing! You have a long attention span! I did say it was going to be interesting but, I guess, it could be a little boring. My other posts will not be this long (well, actually, umm, maybe they will…) I hope you enjoyed my post, if you read through it. Most likely, my blog will eventually look like a cross between all of the designs! And, please, in your comment, include your opinion on what blog design I should choose. Also, if you have a gadget recommendation or something else please tell me. I look forward to seeing what you think! I hope you were entertained and look forward to my next post! May all the meowiest meows be with you! And stay tuned for my next post! If you really like this blog, you can always follow by email once I set up the gadget. See ya! Over and out!
P.S. If you select 'Other' on the poll, what is your favorite animal, please tell me exactly via a comment or, if I know you, via an email. Please add your opinion to the polls!
Thanks for readin',
Clara, the alien-cat blogger
