I recently had a run on the Digg homepage with an article I wrote titled “You Won’t find an iCache in My Pocket!“. Now this wasn’t the first time one of my articles has been on the homepage, but it was the first time its been one from my own blog, so it was exciting for me. Since its been …
The other day, a regular to my Freelance Writing Jobs blog sent this email:
“I have a blog that I love but the problem is, no one reads it. It’s been six months and I only get 30 or 40 visitors a day. When do I throw in the towel?”
If you enjoy blogging, there’s no need to throw in the towel. 30 or 40 people are visiting this blog every day, obviously …
This seems to be a rather easier topic to blog about isn’t it? Well, I too thought so before sitting down to write this article, but in fact, it is a difficult topic to write, believe me. So what are the things that will make you not pay a second visit to a new blog?
A lot of things actually, it’s difficult to categorize and prioritize each but I’m sure all of …
Here are a few tips on how to make your typographic style a little more solid.
Alignment
Aligning your type properly goes a long way to influence readers perception of your site. Justified gives a more “official” impression due to the fact that newspapers use this alignment. However, ragged right (Left Align) is more common in the online world due in large to the fact that properly setting blocks of type justified, adjusting for …
Bloggers are often teased about their incessant need to view their blog stats. Sure, we may need to stroke our blog egos once in a while, but if you find that you just can’t get enough of stats, don’t despair. You may not know that there are good reasons to be a stats junkie. The next time you’re accused of merely feeding your vanity …
Have you tested and calculated the time required to load up your website on various internet connection speeds?
If yes, you are a superstar. If not, you’re still a superstar. Why? Read further..
It is a fact that on various speeds of internet, your blog loads at various speeds. On slower connections, it takes more time to load and on faster broadband connections, it takes less time. So how should you maintain the …
We all know the sayings. “standing on the shoulders of giants” or the more direct “Bad artists copy. Great artists steal.”
In blogging is it possible to be successful just by looking at what others have done? It seems from looking around there are quite a lot of bloggers who think so!
I do think a great way to learn many things is to model success, but modeling doesn’t necessarily imply copying. If …