Design or Content: What’s More Important
Daniel’s got Mark Goush of Weblog Tools Collection (an outstanding site for WordPress stuff) and EngTech facing off over at Daily Blog Tips today. One of the questions he asked them was: “What is more important, the content or the design?” Mark’s answer was: Both. Design and content are both responsible for bringing users back…
On Creating Blog Spillover Success
It’s been neat over the last year to watch my traffic on my various blogs … including the most trafficked blogs and how, as I have interlinked them, the traffic spills over to the others. Of course, spillover traffic on each blog isn’t 100 percent … not even close. But there is a smaller, but…
RockinChrome Is Here: My Dark, Three Column Free Theme Released
I’m finally releasing another free WordPress theme called RockinChrome … It’s a dark and sleek, three column theme, with black, grey and red colors … with some advanced features included to customize it just the way you want it. Here’s a screenshot: Key features: Dark theme with grey and red accents Custom PSD graphic files…
The First 5 Essential Tweaks I Do in a WordPress Blog Installation
Smashing Magazine just asked for reader’s best WordPress tutorial ideas and so I’m going to unveil the first five essential tasks/tweaks I do whenever I set up a WordPress blog … Here goes … Five Essential Tweaks For Your WordPress Blog Install 1. Install the Google Sitemap Plugin — and link to it in my…
Following Up with Unverified Email Subscribers
Darren has a great tip in his post about how to increase RSS subscribers. He suggests following up with those who have subscribed via email to your feed but who have not verified their subscription. This is excellent advice for those who have any kind of email subscription database. With the opt-in requirements for email…
How to Add More WordPress Text Widgets
I’ve been looking for a solution to add more text widgets to a WordPress blog … seeing as that’s a great and easy way for “non-tech” people to add content. And I have a client wanting a TON … Check out this WordPress support post on this topic.
Why Turning Off Your Blog’s Comments Function Could Be a Good Thing
About two months ago, I got so frustrated with the comments function on my blog that I decided to turn them off. Yep. One big machete-like chop and they were gone and with them went … a lot of grief and anguish and irritation. [Cue big sigh of relief!] Anyway … I just remembered one…
Get an Open Table At Your Favorite Restaurant Online
I love this idea … getting a restaurant reservation online at OpenTable.com. See the New York Times article where I found this service. I think restaurants have a great opportunity to promote their “atmosphere” and community online through blogs. Think about it … a restaurant owner talks about food and life on a blog ……
How Young Entrepreneurs Are Rockin’ It Online: Threadless
This video presentation is worth the entire 45 minutes … just to see how these young entrepreneurs are doing some incredible things online … while building a community … and making money. The two guys presenting are from Threadless … after watching this who wouldn’t want to work there?! [Found via BlogMinistry]
Blogging As a Rough Draft For Your Thoughts
One of the super-duper benefits of blogging is that is clarifies your thoughts and ideas. It crystallizes them. For me, it helped me rehearse and refine my ideas … and thus better communicate them with others. After I did two blog post series on subjects, I found myself in conversations with others in my field…