[UPHPU] Best way to incorporate blog into web site

[MilesTogoe]

Joseph Scott wrote:
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> On Oct 7, 2008, at 9:32 PM, Wade Preston Shearer wrote:
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>> On 7 Oct 2008, at 19:31, Robert Merrill wrote:
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>>> Omniture's blogs are a great example of theme/design integration.
>>> Remember that your users don't care if they are on "the blog" or not,
>>> but I recommend you make sure the user-experience is consistent enough
>>> that they're not lost, or have to learn a new set of menus/navigation.
>>> (Full disclosure: I work for Omniture)
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>> I disagree. I believe a blog should not share the same design as your 
>> corporate/marketing site. Blogs and corporate/marketing website 
>> server very different purposes and are consumed very differently. 
>> And, regarding user-experience, users will have a harder time 
>> navigating your blog's navigation matches your site, opposed to 
>> traditional blog interface conventions.
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> I think you evaluate your needs and what you expect for you users and 
> go with what's best.  Here's an example from WordPress.com: CNN's 
> Political Ticker site - http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/  That 
> site is hosted by WordPress.com, but design wise is integrated in with 
> the rest of their site.  I think this works well for them.

this is sort of what I had in mind - it's really nicely done.  I 
especially like the loading caption "waiting for the really good stuff" 
:)   Maybe on the link button I can have something like:

Blogs
You Know You Really Want To