Week 1 Assignment

Part 1.

• 'Billy's Bakery in Syracuse' www.BillysBakerySyr.com

According to Who, What, and Where, www.BillysBakerySyr.com tells you many information at a glance. Sometimes, the simplest works the best!

• 'Fang's Night Horror' www.NightFilms.com, www.PitchDarkFilms.com

Fang Films has a unique characteristic, which is focusing on horror films. Brainstorming always gives relevant concepts to an idea. A horror is relevant darkness, death, ghost, night, monster, killer, and so on. www.NightFilms.com is well depicted about the characteristic of Fang Films. Some could prefer to watch a romantic films at night, but it is clear that darkness has been a threat to all creatures. www.PitchDarkFilms.com is metaphoric and evokes the visitor's intention too.

• 'Happy Pup Doggy' www.HappyDogSyr.com

Dogs love walking as well as being taken care by someone. In a context of a business, a location must be mentioned in a domain to be clear about its business scope. 

Part 2.

The two famous platforms for blogging are Wordpress and Blogger. 

A chart below compare the two platforms' pros and cons. 

Infographic by Blogging.org

Wordpress

• Wordprees provides a free platform with some limited features.

• Users can upgrade the service, purchase templates, and extend the storage capacity.

• The template can be modified with an interface on the right side, however, some of features such as layout controls are limited.

• It provides a Dashboard feature for overall blog maintenance.

• It also provides free 3.0Gb space for Content Management System.

Wordpress' Upgrades 

Wordpress' Dashboard UI

Wordpress' Template Design

Blogger

• Blogger provides more controls to the user over the template design.

• Unlike Wordpress, users can modify properties of each layout (Header, Body, Footer). 

• Blogger interacts with a Google+ account.

Blogger's Template Design Control  

Blogger's UI

Your Choice?

• A giant coffee retailer looking to connect with customers?

I do not recommend Wordpress to someone who runs an e-commerce because of Wordpress' philosophy about Non-Advertisement blogging environment. To create a social network with customers, Blogger's compatibility with Google+ can help to create a community-based blog. Of course, the situation can be shifted by what kind of Business Strategy does the retailer pursue.

• A photographer interested in making their work go viral?

If you need a storage space, Wordpress is the right choice! It provides 3.0GB storage space for free, and the user can manage own CMS, Content Management System, in its Dashboard feature. This clouding feature can give more accessibility and reliability to the user who needs to manage a high volume of data. 

• A Syracuse Crunch hockey blogger looking to write daily updates?

A daily blog update is one of critical factors for the success. Blooger offers an automatic post setting feature along with a schedule set by the user.