Getting to grips with WordPress 2.5
WordPress I came across the announcement of WordPress 2.5 at the weekend on Daily Blog Tips and decided to upgrade all my blogs with this new version. As usual the update was quick and painless and from what I have seen in the last few days, 2.5 has to be the release with the most changes in some time. The first thing that you notice is the cosmetic changes in the admin area. Everything has been tidied up to give the wordpress script a more professional feel about it. Don’t worry, it won’t take you long to find where everything is as the top nav links are pretty much the same (albeit the ...
Continue readingGoodbye 800×600?
Design & Coding As I was redesigning my own site I debated what resolution to use. More and more sites are optimized for screens at 1024×768, and the WC3 reports 80% of users have monitors that big or bigger. Even my own stats suggest users on my site with 800×600 at only 4%. But it’s still 4%, which is more then Opera, Safari, and IE5 combined and I still make sure my sites work within that ...
Continue readingHow To Choose Which Blog Post To Post?
Blogging Image Source: lowjumpingfrog There are instances in your day to day blogging life where you have to decide between two or more posts on which one to be posted to the blog. Do you always come up with the correct post and get the expected results for the post? Few times you get and the rest of the times you don’t. I have had confusions on which post to post on a specific day for my blog. I also ...
Continue readingUsing Internal Links
Links One linking strategy that’s often overlooked is internal linking. Internal links are those that lead people from one page to another within your web site. This is different from the navigational structure. Internal links are more natural links that occur in the text on your web pages. Without a good internal linking strategy, you run the risk of not having your site properly spidered. It’s ...
Continue readingWhy Blogging is About Marketing
Promote your blog Marketing is not just about promotion; the marketing concept is also about discovering the needs and wants of a customer. A lot of marketing is about understanding your customer’s needs and wants and making sure that you build a product that satisfies those needs and wants efficiently and profitably. Research on blogging indicates it is not a good idea for a corporate blogger to focus solely on ...
Continue readingSocial Spark set for a mid April Public Launch
Blogging News SocialSpark, the latest project from PayPerPost creator’s Izea, today announced PayPerPost advertisers will be testing out their new social marketplace in the alpha version of their new site with a public release scheduled for mid April. If you want to find out more about SocialSpark you should check out their demo video for a preview of what’s to come. Hopefully Izea will learn from ...
Continue readingRevisionist blogging
Writing 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 ...
Continue readingWrite posts based on user reaction
Writing 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 ...
Continue readingCommon Myths Regarding Accessibility
Design & Coding 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 ...
Continue readingHow to Effectively Use Blogging to Build Your Freelance Writing Credentials
Blogging 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 ...
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