From Amateur to Professional For Just a Couple of Bucks

A picture is worth a thousand words, or so it’s said. It’s worth $1.50 too. For just over a dollar an image you can take your site from well-written but sort of “blah” to fabulous.

Principles of Design: The 80/20 Rule

I received the book, Universal Principles of Designfor Christmas. This book was recommended as a foundational text for anyone interested in design, and after only   Read More »

How to Grow a Blog

I recently reconnected with a former colleague who has a relatively new blog, and after visiting my site and looking at some of my stats,   Read More »

What to Buy a Blogger for Christmas

Wondering what to buy that person in your life who is addicted to the computer and blogging?  Christmas is just around the corner and I   Read More »

5 Plugins to Make Your Site Look More Professional

One of the reasons I love WordPress is the plethora of amazing plugins available. Here are 5 plugins that I recommend for getting a professional   Read More »

Reasons Your Business Needs a Blog

I’ve been a fan of Fast Company Magazine for a long time, and have recently been invited to be one of their “Expert Bloggers”.  My   Read More »

Learn to be an Authority Blogger

I don’t recommend stuff here much- only things I really think are awesome, like the Perfomancing Hive forum for example. One of the “Hivers”, Chris   Read More »

Trying out Google Chrome

When I first heard that Google was releasing a new browser, I was a little annoyed.  I wondered if we really need another web browser.   Read More »

Performancing Ads: The Ideal Ad Network

Have you heard about PerformancingAds? It’s a new ad network from the people behind Performancing, whose tagline is “helping bloggers succeed”, and this ad network   Read More »

Numbers don’t mean everything

As bloggers, we can often get caught up in our stats.  Pursuing better Google Page Rank, Technorati ranking, Alexa Rank, etc. can consume us, and   Read More »