One week ago I wrote about how you can fight back against the scrapers, the content stealing scamming idiots who rip off posts from hard working bloggers. Since then, BloggingTips has unfortunately been scraped a few more times.

A blog about nothing, Elina from MyLlilAdventure and David from Pure Blogging were all kind enough to send me an email about two sites they found scraping me. Thanks guys, I really appreciate your support

The blogs which are scraping me are Blogging Orientated and Riza’s Site (dont worry, I’ve added the nofollow tag to these links!).…

In 1995 a font was created by Vincent Connare at Microsoft when he was shocked to see Times New Roman used inappropriately for it’s upcoming comic book styled Microsoft Bob application. Ironically it is now Comic Sans that is being used inappropriately all over the place.

While its not the font itself that’s the issue, it’s the inappropriate usage and the scale of its misuse from government documents to restaurant signage. I personally have seen agencies in the Canadian Government like Fednor put together documents and proposals with Comic Sans MS.…

It’s one of the key components in design, colour; we see it everyday, but do we understand it’s meaning and better yet how to use it effectively?

Our reactions to colours are instinctual but also a product of the society we grow up in. Here are some guides to help you better understand colours and their place in our society and those of other cultures.
http://colortheory.liquisoft.com/
http://www.color-wheel-pro.com/color-meaning.html
http://kuler.adobe.com/
http://www.colormatters.com/colortheory.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_theory

What does colour mean to you?

Do you run competitions on your blog? Do you do a links roundup every now and then? If so, then Fresh Badge could be just what you are looking for. At FreshBadge you have a huge amount of options and styles to help you design your own badge.

It will probably take you a while to tweak the badge to the way you want it but once you’ve got the final design you can save the image in png, gif or jpeg format. It’s very straight forward, I recommend giving it a…

Pop ups; one of the great annoyances of the Internet age. A design annoyance that turns off many consumers, yet somehow not everyone has got the message. In the “tab” era pop ups are increasingly unwelcome, opening a new browser session when the user no longer wants multiple windows but rather opting for tabbed browsing instead. I see plenty of design portfolios even still make use of pop ups to display their work, having users land on a splash page (also an annoyance) and then forcing them to open a…