Sara wrote a few days ago the three great reasons to read other niche blogs. The post was a good one and covered these three points:
To Increase Your Knowledge
Improve Your Writing
New Tactics And Methods
I started to think on why I read other niche blogs and came up with the following reasons:
1. Become A Freelance Writer
Having knowledge in other niche will help you a lot. You can do freelance writing on that topic if you have good knowledge about it. I read technology blogs everyday and this has helped me in…
Most blogs use a single stylesheet to control the design of their entire site. That is where all the magic happens. If you have ever gotten adventurous and wanted to modify your theme, you have no doubt poked around in your blogs stylesheet. Obviously, this is a very important file, so you should be careful with your editing.
Make a backup first
Even if you really know what you are doing, it’s always a good plan to have a backup copy of a version of your stylesheet that you know is in good…
Quite a lot happening around eh?
Did you see the Top search terms of 2007 released by Yahoo guys? If you are a make money online guy, you might want to check it out and get some wicked ideas for a new site. I’ve picked a few myself 
MyBlogLog competition for the blog with maximum membership growth has been declared. Survival of the feedest is the winner with 477 new members. Another contest at AdSense was wrapped up the other day. It was the AdSense story contest, and Hometips.com won the contest. Details…
Michael’s excellent project management post got me thinking about projects I have worked on that have gone well and others that were, um, less than fantastic. The core differences I think are things that many bloggers overlook in their own projects. Take a look at these factors and see if you agree:
- Priorities - Many bloggers I see fuss over the design, or think all they need is one front page Digg story, etc. In fact, like any recipe for success, you need the right mix of ingredients.
- Requirements - Requirements are your ingredients. If…
Vladimir Prelovac posted a link to his new plugin this week in the Blogging Tips Forums. I have been pretty busy this week but got a chance to try out his new plugin Theme Test Drive today.
So what does the plugin do? Here is how Vladimir explains it :
Ever wanted to live test another theme you are designing or you just wanted to see how a different theme looks with your site content?
Theme Test Drive allows you to safely test drive any theme on your blog as an administrator, while visitors still…
Blogging is still a new art, and that means there are some exciting decisions you can make for yourself. One of the biggest is deciding who you’re writing for. I’m talking about something more fundamental than identifying a demographic: I’m talking about deciding whether you’re writing for yourself or your readers.
If you’re writing for your readers, then your blog is like your face. You use it to communicate with the outside world, through expressions, through speech, and through visual appeal. The better your face/blog looks – clean, color-coordinated cosmetic…
