Building Web Sites All-in-One Desk Reference For Dummies®

Chapter 5. Additional Site Interactivity

In This Chapter

• Considering adding a blog

• Letting users speak: message boards and wikis

• Setting up automatic notifications: RSS feeds

• Keeping in touch with e‐mail

It seems as though interactivity is the buzzword when it comes to Web sites. If you design sites that aren't interactive, you're not a happening designer. And it's a well‐known fact that happening designers get most of the work. If you've read previous chapters of this minibook, you have an idea of the type of interactivity you can create when you design pages for your clients. But wait; there's more! In fact, a whole lot more. This chapter shows you other forms of interactivity you can add to your pages. In fact, it shows you a whole lot of interactivity in this chapter.

Engaging Visitors with an Online Journal (Blog)

Blogs have become the hottest thing since sliced bread. It seems as though everyone and his little sister has a blog these days. Some of them are vanity blogs, while others contain useful information or points of view. Figure 5-1 shows a blog that contains useful information about digital photography. The creators are two best‐selling authors of books on digital photography and Photoshop. The blog is interactive in that readers can leave comments on blog posts.

Figure 5.1.  Figure 5-1: You can use blogs to dispense useful information.

Savvy business people also use blogs. Because ...