The number one new years resolution is to lose weight. Weather it be through exercise or eating habits people are trying to slim down, but while focusing on their physical appearance the same desire to “lose the fat” escapes other parts of their lives.

One such area is the fat in websites and blogs. Using space well eludes a lot of people when designing websites, often creating visual clutter. Even behind the curtain plugin clutter exists on some sites, some entirely unnecessary. So consider these easy ways to cut clutter and…

It is always important to increase relationship with your blog readers. I wrote a post few days back on How to increase interactivity in your blog. In that post, I wrote on how you can make your visitors to take any action in your blog. This post will be on how to build good relationship with your blog readers and what you can do to make the relationship better.

Blogging is a good way to get friends and to tell the truth, I have got many friends. The best people who…

Typogrify actually began life as a set of Django templates crafted by Christian Metts to improve web typography. It was the ported over to WordPress by Hamish Macpherson. As Jeff Croft puts it:

Typogrify: almost certainly the best thing to happen to web typography since Georgia.

The beauty of Typogrify is it’s simplicity. You will benefit from it just by plugging it in an turning it on, but there are a bunch of more advanced features if you wish to take it further. I’ll cover all the features here.

Adds a unique class to your…

Ah! It’s New Year and boy, I’m excited! A fresh breath of air, it promises new ventures, new ideas, new partnerships and a whole new experience. I’m sure just like 2007, 2008 is going to be a very eventful year for bloggers. So, wishing you all a very happy and exciting new year ahead, let’s see what happened last week here on the blogosphere.

Karen, at Google’s official blog has posted last years summary of blogging at Google Official Blog. It also has statistics and numbers. You can see some interesting ones…

Punctuation is important, sure, but it’s not a deal-breaker. For the most part, your readers probably don’t care whether you’re comma-crazed, like me, or writing marathon run-on sentences. Few people are studying closely to determine whether you should be using parentheses rather than dashes. Still, there are a few instances where something as small and boring as a punctuation mark can make or break your post.

The most exciting mark is, of course, the exclamation point. This gets overused a lot, especially in email. That’s because the exclamation point is the…

As my first post in 2008 on BloggingTips I thought I would share some of the things that I learned about blogging in 2007. So here are a few things reflecting back on 2007.

You don’t have to be the best writer to blog - I’m speaking from experience here. Writing is something I enjoy doing, getting better at it is something I continue to do. If you have something to say then start blogging and your writing will improve over time.

You meet the best people in the world by blogging…