Monthly Archives: December 2007
How Color Affects Your Blog
Design & Coding There is an entire branch of marketing dedicated to color and how it affects a brand’s image, message and more. In fact, there are groups and associations that operate with the primary purpose of analyzing color and trends in color. Color is more important than you may think. How does the color used on your blog affect your readers’ perceptions of you, your blog and your brand? Let’s take a look at some colors commonly ...
Continue readingTop 5 Ways To Source Content For Your Blog
Blogging Blogging is not that easy and you have to continuously keep coming up with new ideas to write about. There may be times when you may not have any ideas to write about which we bloggers term as bloggers block. If you are suffering from bloggers block you should read about the tips to get out of it. Coming back to the point ideas are not always easy to come by and having a steady source of information helps you to easily build up on newer ideas. ...
Continue readingEarn money from Internet Real Estate business
Making Money I might have used the wrong title here. I could’ve made it even more interesting with some thing like “earn money with internet real estate”. But I assume that many of you already know what I’m talking about. Site Flipping. Flipping sites is a cool way to make some money online. For first time listeners site flipping means – Buying and Selling sites. That’s probably the shortest description for it. There are ...
Continue reading(Very) Basic Questions in Blogging
Blogging In writing a news article, it is important to answer the basic questions in order to get the facts straight and also to deliver the information in an orderly manner. I’ve decided to use these basic questions in order to answer blogging questions particularly the ones that are just new in the blogging world. What is Blogging? If you are still asking that question then you have come to the right place. Personally, I define blogging as a ...
Continue readingDo You Have an Emergency Contact for Your Blog?
Blogging This week at Performancing, I asked “What will happen to your blogs if something happens to you?” Stuff happens and we need to be prepared. While I won’t rehash the whole piece, I will ask another question. “Who will you entrust your blog to if something happens?” For some the answer is simple, while others have to think long and hard of someone they can trust to see out their visions. Who Shares Your Vision? If you care about what ...
Continue readingFlash Photography
Design & Coding More and more sites are going the way of flash as consumers begin to have access to high speed Internet and more advanced systems. But the majority of sites flocking to flash seem to be portfolios, especially photographers. The argument made for these sites using flash is the desire to create an immersive user experience for visitors through motion and sound, but what are the arguments against using flash? Well, the first and foremost argument ...
Continue reading3 More Reasons To Read Other Niche Blog
Blogging 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 ...
Continue readingBe Careful Editing Your Blogs CSS
CSS 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 ...
Continue readingA week in blogging – Nov 30- Dec 06
Around The Blogosphere 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 ...
Continue readingThe Secret to Getting More Done
Blogging 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 ...
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