Know Thy Strengths
I’m fascinated by personality tests and other tools that help clarify who you are, what you’re good at, etc. I took the Myers-Briggs Test Indicator in college and that started my immense interest in the subject. So a while back, I bought the book Now, Discover Your Strengths and took the StrengthsFinder test. I thoroughly
Your Whole Blog Should Be a Landing Page
I’ve been doing some reading on landing pages … and the thought occurred to me: My whole blog should be a landing page. Here’s what I mean by that statement: Simply, your blog should convert your site guests to accomplish your goals, whatever those are. As a blog designer, one of the first questions I
Compelling Content that Causes Clicks: The Forbes Magazine Model
For some time now, I’ve been clicking over to check out the delicious “In Pictures” galleries that Forbes Magazine puts up on a continual basis. These content snippets in particular are great examples of compelling content that creates clicks … Here’s two examples in particular that I ate up: 10 Elements of a Business Plan
Control the Traffic or Ride the Waves
He who controls the traffic — the mass of Web users logging on each day — is king. That company or website who can steer and siphon and redirect the majority of Web surfers is Google controls traffic through search. Now … Google is a verb. When your brand name is used commonly as a
Duct Tape Business Blog Theme Released With New Header Logo Image
Due to popular request, John Jantsch and I have released version two of our Duct Tape Business Blog theme … this time with an editable graphic in the header. Please note: If you’re not skilled at Photoshop or tweaking a blog, you may want to use the Duct Tape Business Blog theme with the text
WordPress ‘Evolving’ Into More of a Content Management System
Reading some summaries of WordCamp at Blogging Pro, I saw this blurb that really caught my eye (and excitement) drawn from Matt Mullenwegs talk: WordPress is evolving into a content management system. My friend Brian Gardner has talked about WordPress as a CMS … and I wrote a whole series about how smaller church websites
Our Free WordPress Themes Site Gets a New Dress
I just gave RockinThemes, where Nathan and I have launched over 40 free WordPress themes, a new facelift. The old site was, well, old and outdated. Badly. We’ve got some tweaks still to do but you get the idea. Here’s a screenshot:
Skype Wants to Welcome Me Back
I was just cleaning out some programs on my computer that I don’t ever use … you know those ones where the icon sits on your desktop forever, but you never click it. Or worse, the one that boots up with your computer automatically but is an irritation. Well, I wouldn’t say Skype was one
The Definition of ‘Fun’ By Cory Miller
Today I was asked the question: “What would you like to do?” That’s a general question and I won’t elaborate on the context. But I answered with this: “I want to have a lot of fun.” That answer could be interpreted in a whole bunch of different ways. And I didn’t explain it very well.