sbattisti
Juvie Member
If I could make a suggestion for your blog . . .
You should do a few more hyperlinks and reorganize things a bit to help everyone through the process. For example, down the right your directory has these topics:
Welcome to Dubia Roach Guide
Dubia Roaches: Best Food for Reptiles
Buying Dubia Roach Guide
So, being a newbie, I started reading through these in order from top to bottom. When I got to the Buying Dubia Roach Guide, I immediately read this:
"once you have made your decision about buying dubia roaches for your reptiles and set up the dubia roach enclosure..."
The thing is, at this point I hadn't read ANYTHING about setting up the enclosure. It turns out that is in the NEXT blog entry, "Guide To A Thriving Dubia Roach Colony".
You could improve this in several ways:
1. In the sentence above (and in similar sentences throughout your blogs), hyperlink to the relevant blog entries.
2. Move the enclosure setup to BEFORE the the buying guide.
3. Consider numbering your blog entries to give your "customers" a step-by-step process for understanding dubia colonies.
4. Newbies like me often want to know everything and see real-world examples, so hyperlink to external references where possible. For example, when you say, "The water can be in the form of water crystals," hyperlink "water crystals" to a reptile supply web site water crystal product or something like that. Same thing for terms like "heat pad".
This is great stuff, by the way. It's exactly what I'm trying to figure out right now. You might want to add a section on how you monitor the temperature of your colony, and suggestions on where to buy roaches. You should point out you can't buy them in Florida. It would be awesome to have a video of separating the roaches!
Oh, and by the way, you've misspelled "separating" as "seperating" and "holes" as "wholes." Not a huge deal, but if your goal is to be seen as a key reference source, misspellings like that can hurt people's impression of how smart you are!
Great work, it's what I'm going to use to get my dubia colony set up!
Steve
You should do a few more hyperlinks and reorganize things a bit to help everyone through the process. For example, down the right your directory has these topics:
Welcome to Dubia Roach Guide
Dubia Roaches: Best Food for Reptiles
Buying Dubia Roach Guide
So, being a newbie, I started reading through these in order from top to bottom. When I got to the Buying Dubia Roach Guide, I immediately read this:
"once you have made your decision about buying dubia roaches for your reptiles and set up the dubia roach enclosure..."
The thing is, at this point I hadn't read ANYTHING about setting up the enclosure. It turns out that is in the NEXT blog entry, "Guide To A Thriving Dubia Roach Colony".
You could improve this in several ways:
1. In the sentence above (and in similar sentences throughout your blogs), hyperlink to the relevant blog entries.
2. Move the enclosure setup to BEFORE the the buying guide.
3. Consider numbering your blog entries to give your "customers" a step-by-step process for understanding dubia colonies.
4. Newbies like me often want to know everything and see real-world examples, so hyperlink to external references where possible. For example, when you say, "The water can be in the form of water crystals," hyperlink "water crystals" to a reptile supply web site water crystal product or something like that. Same thing for terms like "heat pad".
This is great stuff, by the way. It's exactly what I'm trying to figure out right now. You might want to add a section on how you monitor the temperature of your colony, and suggestions on where to buy roaches. You should point out you can't buy them in Florida. It would be awesome to have a video of separating the roaches!
Oh, and by the way, you've misspelled "separating" as "seperating" and "holes" as "wholes." Not a huge deal, but if your goal is to be seen as a key reference source, misspellings like that can hurt people's impression of how smart you are!
Great work, it's what I'm going to use to get my dubia colony set up!
Steve
