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You and your users
Blogger How you communicate with your users on your website is very important. If you don’t send the right message then they will move onto another website. With so many blogs on the Internet you have to be different and it can be as simple as how you communicate to your users. It can be how you write your articles or how you set the website up. I came across a question recently regarding the text used to invite a user to sign up to a websites ...
Continue readingAre your emails doing as well as they should?
Promote your blog How many emails do you get everyday from websites or blogs and how many of those do you read? I receive a large amount of emails form sites that I have signed up to and out of those there are very few that I actually take any notice of. In fact I will often unsubscribe from the website after the 2 or 3 emails if they are not to my liking. The reason So many sites send out a weekly or monthly newsletter without too much thought about the content ...
Continue readingIt is time, time to prepare for Christmas
Blogging It is now mid September and now is the time to start thinking about what you plan to do for Christmas on your website. You will no doubt notice over the next week or so that the shops will begin to sell Christmas gifts, I know I’ve seen a christmas tree already! Christmas can be a very fruitful time for everyone on the Internet weather you are selling a product or just blogging about them. Christmas is when more people want to buy something as ...
Continue readingUsing video on your website
Video Blogging Video is just about as common as images on the Internet these days, more and more websites are using it and with YouTube and other such services it is likely to increase. Video is considered as one of the best methods for communicating with audiences but there a lot of sites that use video and it not doing them any good. I came across a website recently that was of a graphic designer. The trouble was that when I visited the homepage, on the ...
Continue readingIs Twitter personal enough?
Social Networking Twitter is a great way of communicating with many people at a time and keeping up to date on certain topics but does it stop us communicating on a more personal level? I have used MSN messenger for many years and I have a contact list as long as my arm with all my friends, work mates and web contacts but more recently since I’ve been using Twitter I’ve almost stopped using messenger to communicate with anyone. Has anyone else done the same? ...
Continue readingTwitter Photo or graphical avatar survey results
Social Networking Thanks to all those who took part in the survey it was very interesting to see the results coming in. The first question was to find out if you already use a photo as your avatar on Twitter. The results were evenly matched but having a photo just edged it with 56.3% Some of the comments on this question were interesting with answers such as I used to have a photo and some stating that they actually have a photo of something else. What was quite ...
Continue readingSimple 404
Design & Coding 404 pages are one of the most boring pages on your site but they are also one of the most important. Imagine going somewhere you have never been before with no signposts to direct you ( and no sat nav) where would you go next? You would either guess and try to navigate your way round or you would simply turn back. In web terms this is very bad, it creates a barrier with you and your visitors on either side. Checking the web I see quite a lot of ...
Continue readingYour Twitter Avatar – Photo or Graphic?
Social Networking This has been on mind for a while now and I would love to hear your thoughts on this. Anyone who follows me on Twitter may have seen a few different avatar images recently as I have been playing with the idea of either having my actual photo or my logo. What is an Avatar? An avatar is an image that represents yourself whether that be a true likeness or what you want others to perceive you as. Your on-line presence is very important and up until ...
Continue readingAre you creatively inspired or inspired by creativity?
Blogging Say that again? Let us look at the title in detail, are you the kind of person that is inspired by what you do or what is around you or are you inspired by others creativity? Are you the sort to draw on yourself for creative inspiration or do you need to be drawn out by other people’s creativity? Do you need to inspire yourself by reading other people’s blogs for example or are you burning with ideas on what to write? How do you let your ...
Continue readingWhich CMS do you use?
Blogging I build websites on a daily basis and I am always trying out new software and tools to keep myself and my work on top of the game. At the time of writing this, more from a usability point of view I choose to use WordPress as my favored platform to build upon. WordPress is considered a Blogging platform but with the amount of plugins and the flexibility WordPress gives you, it can easily be used to create websites. Why WordPress? When I am ...
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