Design/layout and tools/services

What design or layout we like in our features?

I hope to develop a good perceptual fluency / the visual information quality for our SportsNerd blog, so that it would be attractive, elicit the sense of pleasure, and increase favorible future behavioral intent. I think it is important to have a clean/ user friendly interface that would encourage a simple navigation within our blog.

Also:

- Good quality imagery incorporated  (like in sportsbusiness.com or news.com.au/sport)

- A nice consistent banner (related to our topic) across all pages

- Tabs at the top indicating “Home”, “About us”, “Case studies”, “Gallery”, “News” etc

- a clear, symmetrical layout (perhaps 2 or 3 columns in the middle with the main story magnified on top/above, videos on the right)

Tools and services that we might like to build our feature?

We will be incorporating RSS feed, FB, Twitter that will help us reach our target audiences/users