Experiment in Improving my Alexa Rank
With my recent jump to a Page Rank of 5, I'm beginning to consider options for monetizing this site. Not heavily, but I wouldn't mind selling a few text link ads. While I've used Adsense and Commission Junction on other sites, I have not done much in the way of direct...
Definition of Success as a Designer
Recently I was tagged by Char at Essential Keystrokes to continue this discussion on how we define success as a designer that was started over at Tara's blog. 1. How did you get started in the business? I worked in direct mail and database marketing in my "former...
Technorati wins an award for customer service after all
Did I say that Technorati wasn't winning any awards for customer service? I was wrong. Or, should I say, I was premature. I still think if you're going to change something up on your users, you should inform them up front instead of leaving them to wonder and become...
The Face Behind My Blog
David Airey had the wonderful idea to start a "face behind the blog" meme, and I think it's my favorite meme of all time. When I started using MyBlogLog, I enjoyed seeing visitors faces for the first time, and I always look for a picture on blogs that I frequent so I...
Technorati is not winning any awards for customer service
I was really looking forward to breaking into the top 10,000 in the Technorati ranking, and today I see in the site redesign they removed Rank entirely, in favor of the new Authority score. What's really annoying though, is that in the write up about the redesign,...
How to hide pages and rearrange your menu in WordPress
Update: This post was written years ago, before WordPress added the very cool Menus functionality. Most new themes are using this function, so that the default might be just to list your pages, but you can go to Appearance/Menus and create your own menu for you...
WordPress 2.2 has been released
WordPress 2.2 is here! It includes widgets integration, and over two hundred bug fixes. The new version also protects you from activating a plugin or editing a file that will break your blog. Now... when am I going to find the time to upgrade...?
5 SEO Enhancements For Your Blog
SEO is a world of small detailed tweaks that add up to big differences in traffic, and although I am not a very detail oriented person, it's something I've been trying to pay more attention to. Here are 5 tweaks that I have recently become aware of and am implementing...
A Rainbow of Free Round RSS Icons
As I was developing my Round and Round theme, I looked around for some round RSS icons to put with the feed link, and didn't find any, so I made some. I thought there might be others who would be interested, so I thought I would do several colors and share them here....
Round and Round WordPress theme released
(Are you tired of hearing about this theme yet?) Well, it's been released, and I'm looking forward to seeing what happens! I ended up changing it to display best on 1024x768 and put instructions in the Stylesheet for an easy switch to 800x600 in case there were those...