Unplugged

Just returned from a long weekend spent camping in the Daniel Boone National Forest in Kentucky. While it was heaven for my son (pictured above), it was not quite my cup of tea. Though we did have a good time despite buckets of rain the first night and ridiculous...

How to dress up your 404 page

What do visitors see when they click on a link to your site and the page they were looking for is missing, or the URL has changed? The 404 page is easy to customize, but it’s something that is often overlooked in the quest to make a site “stickier”....

Free Vector Artwork

Finding sources of good vector art for use in design projects can be rather difficult. I can do illustration, but find it to be very time consuming, and while I don’t mind paying for good illustrations, I really appreciate all the sites out there that are...

4 Reasons Your Blog Needs a Logo

A recent commenter asked, “how critical is it that a blog have a logo?” That’s a good question. Whether your blog should have a logo really depends on what you’re trying to accomplish, but in the end I believe that if you are serious about...

Speedlinking 7.16.07

I usually hesitate to include a link to a post at ProBlogger, because I sort of assume everyone is reading Darren’s blog, but in this case I thought he had such a good idea I’d include it here anyway. It’s a very interesting group writing project...