A Content Pattern from
Patterns for Personal Web Sites

Diverse Content

The adage says that you can draw more flies with honey than with vinegar. The Web renders this false: it gives us the freedom not to choose. We can try to draw flies with honey, vinegar, chicken soup, petroleum jelly, an Australian shiraz viognier, or all of these at once. Unlike flies, it's hard to predict what will appeal to visitors. If one type of content doesn't, another might.

Therefore, provide a variety of content on your site.

If you need ideas for how to increase your site's diversity, simply look around. If you see something that intrigues you, why not do it yourself? F.A.Q.s, collaboration, galleries, blogs, essays, games: the choice is yours. Be creative!

Constantly adding a variety of new things to your site creates a Living Site.

Diverse Content complements Deep Content. Both Reward Visitors.



Last updated 17 June 2002
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