Recently, one of my posts became popular on a forum about Windows Vista versus Windows XP, simply because the title of the post seemed relevant to the forum discussion. Unfortunately, it’s a very brief post from 2002 that hardly deals with the subject at all. In fact, it’s pretty dull.

The question now is: should I rewrite this little bulletin? I could use this traffic as a chance to earn some readers by providing a really good post. If nothing else, I wouldn’t need to be embarrassed about tons of strangers…

It’s your blog so you’re free to write what you want. But don’t you write for your readers? Sure you do. You write articles that you hope capture the imagination of your readers and keep them coming back for more. Traffic and regular readership are the keys to a successful blog. Without people reading your blog and reacting to it through commenting and subscribing there would be little point in blogging at all.

So how do you give them what they want?

Easy. . . You listen to what they tell you?…

Historically, there has been some resistance among web designers toward building websites in an accessible manner. This resistance has arisen not due to a wish to discriminate against people who might benefit from accessible design, but rather from a fear that accessibility will limit designers’ options in how they create their sites. There’s also the fact that accessibility seems like it will add additional work, and most people have too much to do already.

For a long time, many people thought that accessible was a code word for an all text…

In today’s blog post, I thought it apropos to answer a question I received from a reader. Sometimes, I think those of us who are more experienced leave newbies out because well, “everyone should know that, right?”

So, here’s a question a lot of aspiring or new freelance writers might wonder about. The reader, Fred, wrote the following to me:

QUESTION: Hi Yuwanda, I realize you’re busy, so if you don’t have time to deal with my question, I completely understand. I can take it like a man, sort of. Do you…

If you’re hesitant about starting your blog - you tell yourself you’ll start a blog when you find the perfect topic, or the perfect WordPress theme - or (fill in your own excuse here) - this article will help you to get started.

Once you’ve been blogging for a month, you’ll be a much more confident blogger. So here are six tips for sailing through your first month of blogging:

1. Keep your blog’s focus in mind

It’s easy to lose focus on a blog. Perhaps your blog’s topic is “golf”. You write…