By the time you have found the mouse pointer, found where you want to click,
moved the mouse pointer onto your target, and, finally, clicked, I could’ve
executed several keyboard shortcuts. Time and productivity are precious to a
professional blogger. Over the long haul, keyboard shortcuts will save you a
tremendous amount of time.

“Web Design is 95% Typography”

Oliver Reichenstein

Blogs should take heed of Oliver Reichenstein’s words. Good typography in your design is good readability, usability, and balance. Sadly, though, typography is a much ignored aspect of design online and designs fall victim to measure being too long, narrow linespaceing, low contrast, and poor grid structure. But the problem I see most in blogs, especially blogs trying to monetize every last pixel of their screen is poorly placed ad’s disrupting the flow of content and lack of white space.

While typography online will never have…

Regardless of what type of website, blog, or online business you run there is always a challenge to continually grow. Growth is necessary for any business, online or off. For bloggers, making money is not the only measurement of growth. Any number of things, like number of visitors, subscriber counts, search engine rankings, number of links, and Alexa rankings, can all be used as measuring sticks to judge your success. When growth isn’t happening in these areas it can be discouraging. Putting in effort with no results is not fun,…

I don’t post many non blogging related posts here but I love this video so much I had to share it with you all. Someone spent god knows how long learning a dance routine with their hands for the amazing Daft Punk Song ‘Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger’, it really is fantastic. North Americans should be familar with the song as Kanye West has just used it in his song ‘Stronger’. Daft Punk have been big in Europe for years so most Euros should be familar with them, infact, I was…

XML sitemaps have been standardized and are recognized by Google, Yahoo!, and Microsoft. According to the official sitemap site, sitemaps.org, “Sitemaps are an easy way for webmasters to inform search engines about pages on their sites that are available for crawling.”

Google, the originator of the xml sitemap protocol, says, “You can use a sitemap file to tell us about all the pages on your site, and optionally, to provide information about those pages, such as which are most important and how often they change. Sitemaps are particularly helpful if your…

Tara from Graphic Design Blog today emailed me with the following question :-

How do you manage your own blog advertising? What I mean by that is when you are selling ads personally (not through Text links) what are the ways you find best for keeping track of when payments are due etc.

Whilst Blogging Tips has only recently started selling advertising, I have been selling advertisements on some of my other sites for 4 or 5 years. I don’t think there is a right way or wrong way to deal with…