Translation Tool

As the blogging is growing bigger and bigger every day, it has become almost a necessity to make sure that your blog can be read by readers from all corners of the world. In order to reach the broadest audience possible it is important to offer blog content in the Language of the readers and make it available in many different languages other than English. There are many different language translation services being offered today but Google Translate gadget is a very simple gadget that translates your blog page into many different languages. 

Readers need translation tools at their fingertips so, adding a translation tool to your blog is always useful. For this assignment I have added Google Translate Gadget to the left side of my blog. Google Translate Gadget has just a simple title and a dropdown list of languages you can choose from. It quickly and easily converts blog content into selected language. If my blog content would only be available in English language, then it would be limited to the readers who understand English. Readers from all around the world would not be comfortable with the language of my blog. Adding this Gadget to my blog will help bring people from all around the world to read my blog content into their native languages. This is a good way to make my blog multilingual and get read by a wide international audience.

Tools of Information design

Blogs gain popularity by the amount of contents posted as well as how many viewers can reach the blog. There are many strategies blogger's can use to promote their blogs. One of them is using social networking sites (Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Google + and many more).

Social media has changed the world. It is getting important for Bloggers and internet marketers. Businesses get boosted with social networking websites and for Bloggers, their blog get higher ranking in search engines. There was a time when traffic to a site was only dependent on search engine and via buying traffic. Now, time has completely changed and Internet marketers and Bloggers are using Social media marketing strategies to get the attention of targeted audience from social media sites.

Social networking sites can be very effective when it comes to promoting one’s business or blog. It has since become a very effective marketing tool that anyone can benefit from taking advantage of it. There are many ways to use social media to promote your blog, product or business. Facebook, Twitter and Google+, YouTube,  are the good ways to drive traffic to blog because it allows you to connect with your target audience and share links of your blog contents. Remember, building connections is a key part of growing your blog, and Social networking sites are an excellent tool for building connections.

For this assignment I included Social networking websites to my blog gadgets that would help me in promoting my blog. At the end of every blog post there are Facebook and Twitter share buttons for readers to share the blog post. Readers can also email blog post to others.
I also added Facebook badge to my blog layout showing up on the right side. This will allow readers to friend with me on Facebook .  I have also added vertical sidebar that contain Facebook “like”  button so that readers can like my posts. I also use Twitter and Google + button that can also help reader share my blog. There is also a counter box that show the number of Facebook likes, Tweets and number of people recommend my blog though Google +. I also added “join this site” button so that readers can join my blog become a member and also they can invite their friends to read my blog.