As I’m working towards making my sites “stickier”, I’ve been looking around for a good plugin to show the post popular posts in the sidebar. I found an excellent plugin/widget combination that has been easy to use and has provided me with a lot of really interesting information.
The first piece to install is Alex King’s [...]
Be generous with links. What do you have to lose? Nothing.
“Do all the good you can, By all the means you can,
In all the ways you can, In all the places you can,
At all the times you can, To all the people you can,
As long as ever you can.”
~ John Wesley
I’ve been [...]
My first guest post ever is up at The Blog World. It’s about how to keep your readers coming back by doing some digging to find out what they’re most interested in reading. Check it out!
Thanks for your comments on previous posts Char, Leah, Easton, David, Cory and Amanda.
Here are some tools I found this week that I thought you’d be interested in:
When one is laying out a site for a client, and want to put in some sample text, the standard practice for professional designers is to put in “Lorem ipsum” text so that the reader “will be distracted by the readable [...]
I participated in the SOAP project that was the brainchild of Easton Ellsworth. My blog was reviewed by Leah of Working Solo, and I am very appreciative of her input. Below is her input and some comments I have in response:
Make your RSS subscription button more prominent. Done.
Add an option to [...]
Since my post recently about my plan to design a WordPress theme, I’ve taken some first steps in the project. I’ve learned some things and I have a question for you. I have been looking around for inspiration, and have spent lots of time on CSSbeauty.com – really nice stuff there. Char [...]
Brian at Copyblogger has some excellent posts about post headlines which have really impacted the way I think about them. He’s an expert at writing titles- when I visit his blog, and look at the popular articles section in the sidebar, I want to read all of them! He is currently in the [...]
Char of Essential Keytrokes suggested in the comments of the last post that I create a WordPress theme. I have thought about this a lot actually, and while I’m comfortable with the design portion of the project, I’ve only dipped my little toe into the PHP waters. But, it’s something I want to [...]
One of my favorite WordPress theme designers is Brian Gardner. His themes are sharp and uncluttered and really easy to work with. I use his Blue Zinfandel theme on several sites and find them very user-friendly- not junked up with a lot of unnecessary code.
Brian has a new theme out called DropShadow – [...]
I recently read ChrisG’s e-book “How to Write Killer Flagship Content”. I’m not a big e-book reader, but I have a lot of respect for Chris and have really benefited from reading his blog. Chris’ writing style is particularly engaging and easy to follow. Some of the best points from his book in a [...]
