[blog birthday survey] results by category

Please remember the percentages do not add up to 100%. They are percentage of those who clicked this variant from the total number clicked.

Font

Verdana/Century Gothic as of now 56.0%

Mix of fonts and sizes 28.0%

Papyrus as I used to have 12.0%

Single font throughout [though different sizes] 12.0%

Courier 4.0%

Length of posts on the main page

Short UKDP type two or three paragraph 32.0%

One paragraph intro - remainder elsewhere 32.0%

Chris Dillow type five or six paragraph 32.0%

DK type long treatise with quotation 20.0%

Pictures within the posts

Left/right alternating as I often do 57.7%

Full width banner type [my usual] 38.5%

Tiny thumbnail like BBC just to define 26.9%

No pics at all 7.7%

Full post pic [as I rarely do] 3.9%

Links within posts

Link whenever necessary 92.3%

Minimized links - only to original source 11.5%

No more than five links per post 11.5%

Maximized links for big juicy read 0.0%

Quotation style

Indented block form, colour highlighted [as now] 69.2%

Indented block form, two-grey highlighted 26.9%

Unindented, part of main text 11.5%

Page elements other than text

Blogfocus as I used to do 73.9%

Quizzes as I do now 52.2%

Questionnaires/surveys 34.8%

Interviews 34.8%

Chicken Yoghurt/Lord Nazh type cartoons 30.4%

Photo displays/slideshows 26.1%

You tube type videos [currently not possible] 17.4%

Memes 8.7%

Music files posted 4.4%

Welshcakes type recipes 4.4%

Style of writing you like to see

Quirky items as I already do 87.5%

Rants as I already do 83.3%

Serious Gracchi type articles 45.8%

Satirical Jon Swift/Dodo type 37.5%

Love romance like Ruthie or even as I sometimes do 20.8%

Swearblogger DK/Reactionary Snob type 16.7%

Theo type totty content 0.0%

Welshcakes type food posts 0.0%

Assuming I resume Blogfocus, should the style be

8 bloggers twice a week, paragraph on each, each time 43.5%

Random content linked to an extent 47.8%

My selection of new blogs 34.8%

My selection of older blogs 34.8%

Themed content 17.4%

Britblog type narrative with e-mailed links from you 13.0%

15 bloggers once a week, paragraph on each, each time 13.0%

Less of [main points]

Too many posts, hard to keep up with and generate good debate, Christianity, political comments, British politics, serious, articles which depend on you reading the whole of a very long post on another blog, long,long posts.

More of [main points]

Pics please, more personal info about you with pics, humour, your take on other blog stories, more philosophical pieces, fun, recent posts display near the top, as you produce a lot of posts, your autobiography, which you started, short and to the point you want to make, CSS styling, photos need to be edited a bit better, sometimes can't make them out, personal data about you and what you are doing and where.

In the end

I hope you'd agree that that was interesting, not only for my blog but in general - it shows how many bloggers think this way about these things. Thank you so much to all respondents. One blogger said I'd now know who he was but that's not possible - no IP addresses were recorded. Your suggestions are being incorporated as far as possible.