I have been reading blogs for many years and have seen them develop over the years. Blogs have gone from simple, only content websites having full length blog posts on the front page, to websites having complex layouts cluttered with different sized blocks placed all over the web page to present content to the readers, sometimes only showing the headlines and the full length posts lying somewhere behind the scene. Matters would have been a lot better had there not been graphic ads in the form of banners found in between the content and at strategic locations that attract your attention away from the content you were trying to find.
So I am starting a new series on blogging – Lean Blogging Series and this is the introduction.