The effect of internet-lifestyle on personal blog template preference

Blog has become the commonest network product. There were usually over one hundred templates for one blog product. The main aim of this paper is to find what make user select one blog template instead of the others. To this end, 11 variables were defined to describe every blog template. Findings from a sample of 30 active NetEase blog users suggest that internet-lifestyle is influential to blog template preference. This study may provide blog template designers with some guiding principles when making user-centered interface design.