9 Essential Tools for Bloggers
Published August 29th, 2007 in Tools - 40 Comments
Here is a small collection of the most important tools to maximize your productivity and effectiveness. Feel free to leave comments with your opinions and other recommendations. 1 – FeedBurner FeedBurner is a free service that will publish the RSS feed from your blog and, most importantly, will provide you with subscriber counts and stats [...]
When is it Time for a Re-Design?
Published August 28th, 2007 in Design - 12 Comments
Many businesses face the challenge of knowing when they need to invest some money in a re-design of their website. If you’re in this situation, here are 9 ways to tell when it’s time. 1 – Outdated Look Websites are like anything else, certain styles come and go. If your site was designed several years [...]
Using Outbound Links to Improve Your Blog
Published August 27th, 2007 in Blog Promotion - 83 Comments
You probably have read a lot about how linking out to other blogs is an effective way for new bloggers to get noticed. The idea, of course, is that when other bloggers see they are getting a link from you they will visit your blog and hopefully like what they see. If they do, maybe [...]
31 Sources of Quality, Free Icons
Published August 26th, 2007 in Design - 223 Comments
FREE ICONS from FAM FAM FAM Many high-quality icons available. MINI ICONS from BRAND SPANKING NEW A collection of 19 greyscale 10×10 pixel icons. RSS ICONS from FEEDICONS.COM Get the standard, recognizable RSS icons. 300 IMAGES from INTERSMASH.COM Icons that have been gathered from other websites. FREE BLOG ICON PACK from graphicPUSH Some free samples [...]
New Design and Some Weekly Links
Published August 25th, 2007 in Links - 22 Comments
We’ve just launched a new design for our website and blog. The new design is fairly simple and intended to allow readers to focus on the content without being distracted. The home page (of the website, not the blog) includes some pictures from our portfolio. Also, we’ve added the FeedBurner count to the sidebar. If [...]
8 Tools to Help You Find the Right Domain Name
Published August 23rd, 2007 in Tools - 55 Comments
Name Boy is a free tool that lets you enter a primary word and a secondary word, and then Name Boy finds available domain names that are relevant to those words. It presents results for .com, .net, .org, .info, .biz, and .tv extensions. And (of course) they make it easy to buy the domain names [...]
Blogging for Service Providers
Published August 22nd, 2007 in Blog Promotion - 6 Comments
Blogs come in all different varieties with different goals. One way of making money (indirectly) with your blog is to use it as a vehicle to sell yourself. This approach works very well for service providers, as it separates you from the competition. Even if you are not directly profiting from the blog, there are [...]
Top 10 SEO-Related WordPress Plugins
Published August 21st, 2007 in WordPress - 56 Comments
The quality and quantity of available plugins can often influence bloggers to choose WordPress when setting up a new blog. However, sometimes the huge number of plugins can become confusing and frustrating. There are several very good plugins that have been developed to enhance the search engine optimization of your blog. Here are 10 of [...]
Creating a More Valuable Blog for Your Readers
Published August 20th, 2007 in Blogging - 30 Comments
Most of us as bloggers and website owners devote so much of our focus on increasing the value of our visitors to us that we neglect to focus on our value to the readers. If we dedicate our efforts to creating more valuable and useful content for our readers, the natural progression is that readers [...]
Effectively Testing Your Website in Multiple Browsers
Published August 19th, 2007 in Design - 95 Comments
As a website designer you have the ability to create an attractive and functional design. Unfortunately, you do not have the ability to control which internet browsers will be using to view your site. Because each browser behaves differently you will need to test your projects in multiple browsers. In most cases the variation from [...]
