Avoiding Bloggers Block is a presentation I did at WordCamp Atlanta 2012 to address issues that bloggers of any niche may encounter when trying to fuel their block with more content. I have embedded the presentation in a couple formats: the powerpoint and a podcast. I talk a lot about blogging and content generation, but
[Continue Reading...]How To Have a User-Friendly Hiatus For Your Blog
When you go to a site and it reads ‘HIATUS’, is it annoying? For me it is and I have heard from quite a few other bloggers that it can be irksome for them too. What is equally annoying is no updates for a while. Come on people… do you care about keeping your visitors?
[Continue Reading...]Finding Inspiration For Your Site’s Content And Design
I was talking with a gal, whom I would probably call a colleague when it comes to art in general. She was having issues finding the right colors to inspire her to make her next website layout and not being inspired. Of course, for color issues I told her right away that she should try
[Continue Reading...]How to Attempt to Tidy Your Site
Have you ever been told that your site was very cluttered? What does that mean? Does it mean you have too many graphics or it just seems everything runs into each other. A website almost seems as if talking about a bedroom. Indeed, a website can be compared in some ways to your bedroom. It
[Continue Reading...]Indentifying And Taking Care Of Comment Spam
Comment spam is definitely something a lot of bloggers encounter, no matter how few or many people visit. Some are geniune spammers, some are newbies who do not know any better, and some are just plain out of the loop. Yeah, that was not very nice, but hey – it is true. Obviously if a
[Continue Reading...]Pingbacks And Trackbacks: Using Them Successfully
A lot of times when I go to my WordPress administrator panel, I look at the trackbacks. Sometimes it may be someone referenced a post in twitter, or another person’s blog. According to Wikipedia, A trackback is one of three types of linkbacks, methods for Web authors to request notification when somebody links to one
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