Tag "design"
5 Useful Features Included in the #NewTwitter Design
Social Media Whether you use Twitter a little or a lot, I’m sure you’ve heard about the #NewTwitter design that has been slowly rolling out to all users. I have three Twitter accounts and currently only have it on the one account I use the least (go figure). Nevertheless, even though I rarely use that account there are still some pretty useful features that might have me using it even more now. Many people are still anxiously awaiting the ...
Continue readingWhy You Need to Know HTML/CSS
CSS, Design & Coding Last week I posted an article entitled “5 Skills Every Bloggers Needs to Excel” spelling out five skills that I consider essential for every blogger to either have or be willing to obtain if they want to truly excel. Overall, the article was well-received but several commenters took issue with the second item on my list: HTML/CSS Skills. Several felt that the power of WordPress/Blogger and other blogging platforms made the need to ...
Continue reading5 Fast Ways to Speed Up Your Blog
Design & Coding Every time someone visits your site, your blog is in a race against the clock. The time between when a user will click the link to your site and can actually read your words is limited. Too long and people just click away. Though, with high-speed Internet becoming as prevalent as it has, these issues have become somewhat less important, though that same speed, combined with instant streaming videos and audio, seems to have frayed people’s ...
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 reading5 Quick Ways to Improve Your Blog
Blogging Let’s say that you have a few hours free and you want to dedicate it to your blog. It’s not enough time to take on a major project such as building a new theme or completely redoing your categories/tags (at least not if you have a large site), but you want to do something to make your blog better. If you find yourself with that blessing, here are five things that you can do right now to improve your blog, all of which take less than ...
Continue readingYour identity means something to your visitors
Blogging Nothing is better than revamping your blog and having a change of direction that enables you to focus on the things you want to write about. How many of you have thought your blog is becoming dull or just not going in the direction you want it to? Having a new design always creates a buzz with your readers, look at the amount of comments that are on the new design post here at Blogging Tips. Many of you had your say about the new design. Your ...
Continue readingColor Coordinate Your Web Pages
Software & Programs The Internet has made it possible for millions of people to write articles and create websites. However, the Internet has not magically provided these millions of people with writing and graphics skills. That’s one of the key reasons I love the posts about writing here on Blogging Tips. Likewise, I am really pleased with a new family of free tools that offer color coordination to those of us who were not blessed with the color ...
Continue reading5 Reasons People May Follow You on Twitter
Social Media Previously, I listed 5 Reasons They May Not Follow on Twitter and 5 Reasons They May Stop Following on Twitter. However, those two articles leave a natural question: What actually makes people follow you? Though I can only speak for myself, as with the other two articles, I took notes on my Twitter usage and studied the things that made me follow people. I found that, once one avoided the pitfalls listed in the two articles above, one typically ...
Continue readingThe Power of Polls
Design & Coding Some months ago I added a poll to my web site, and I was blown away by the increase in activity to the site as well as the number of people who were taking the poll in comparison to doing other activities on the site. I suppose I shouldn’t have been so surprised because polls are hugely popular all around the web. Entire sites are dedicated to building and displaying polls, and numerous freeware, shareware, and low-cost technologies are ...
Continue readingTypo Tips
Design & Coding Here are a few tips on how to make your typographic style a little more solid. Alignment Aligning your type properly goes a long way to influence readers perception of your site. Justified gives a more “official” impression due to the fact that newspapers use this alignment. However, ragged right (Left Align) is more common in the online world due in large to the fact that properly setting blocks of type justified, adjusting for the ...
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