Blog Assignment Finale

Here are the links to my top 10 blog posts along with a brief description on why I chose each post.

• City of God Review - This is my favorite movie of all time.
  
• American Beauty Review - I loved everything about this movie. This is Kevin Spacey's at his finest.
  
• Goodfellas Review - Martin Scorsese is one of my favorite directors and this was his best movie.
  
• How the Web Changed My Life - I liked thinking about what my life would be like without the internet.
  
• Gran Torino Review - This was a really powerful movie and one that most people haven't gotten a chance to see yet.
  
• Once Upon a Time in the West Review - This movie was a masterpiece and It was difficult picking out all of the little details that made me like it so much.
  
• 50 Best Movies - It was fun to look back through the movies I've watched and rank them.
  
• Amadeus Review - I love classical music and this movie was great.
  
• The Changing Web - It was fun thinking of all the things I used to do on the internet.
  
• Schindler's List Review - This was the first movie post where I took the time to add multiple links to outside sites.
  

Before this class, I had a web design blog that I updated occasionally. However, my posts would be few and far apart. After posting 2+ times a week for this class, I got into a habit of writing posts and it became easier.

When writing blog posts, I tried to keep paragraphs to a max of 3 sentences. Any block of text much larger than that got hard to read. I also tried to make all of my movie poster images have the same size and alignment to keep the site consistent. I definitely like the freedom and control of writing to my own blog much more than posting on a discussion board. I also like being able to go back and revise posts if I think of something different the next day or two.

Because I was writing on a schedule, I would keep a list of all the things I hadn't blogged about yet. This worked well with Blogger since I could create drafts of all of these posts and only publish them when I was finished. This way, whenever I had some free time, I could add a little to one of my drafts.