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5 Tips for Writing Awesome Blog Headlines

Blogging has become so popular that large companies even use blogging as a way to share information with consumers. If you’re new to blogging, you may think that all you need to do is share your thoughts and earn page views. However, without the proper headline, people may never see your blog. That’s why a [...]

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Weak titles a web site usability error

Blogs and various content sites have proliferated all over the world wide web, giving the average user an wide range of articles, blog posts and content to read and enjoy. But even with the proliferation of content on the internet there is one glaring error that most of these sites commit – enabling their content [...]

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Don’t Make Commenting Difficult

Websites are built almost solely on its communities. In the case of blogs, the communities hang out in the comments section. That’s where all the socialization and exchange of ideas take place. But writing a thoughtful comment alone is difficult enough. Don’t make it any harder for your readers. This is one of the most [...]

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WordPress for Free Website Development

Every individual today is influenced with two most demanding words, namely “FREE” and “SOON”. Same is the case with website development and web page designing. In order to fulfill the requirement of the above two demanding words an open source website designing application named WordPress was introduced some time ago and which is still highly [...]

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Dealing with Negative Comments

A lot of bloggers live for the comments left by readers on their posts. While not all bloggers may not feel this way, it cannot be denied that comments can make a blogger’s day – positive comments, at least. However, there are always two sides to a coin, and if you get positive comments, you [...]

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Prettier Posts: Clean Up Those Listings

It’s about time we clean up the blogosphere, it doesn’t have to be this ugly, and not everyone needs to hire me or my likes to get a pretty blog. There’s a lot you can do yourself, and most of it is related to your content. Take a look at your average listing of posts, [...]

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Should Tumblr stay simple or does it need to grow up?

Tumblr is no longer just the home of reblogged pictures, quotes, music, videos, and journal entries of friends you follow; it’s also gaining favor with the more discerning content creators in the design and technology circles, turning it into a truly professional publishing platform. This phenomenon is thanks to its relatively easy customization while keeping [...]

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Baby Websites by Squarespace: Sharp Focus and Design

Baby Websites is a pretty interesting proposition. It’s a sub-section of hosted blogging platform Squarespace that caters specifically to the doting parents who want to show off their babies online. The praise given by Business Week on the homepage reveals the competition Baby Websites is up against: .Mac. Sure, one can compare it to the [...]

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Standardizing Icons for the Web

The Web would be much more chaotic than it already is without standards. Today we’re going to talk about how various content on the web is being represented by standardized icons. Several groups of people have come together and agreed upon these simple yet distinct icons for identifying syndicated, OPML, geotagged, shareable content. It’s interesting [...]

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Finishing Touches

…and famous last words, perhaps. I’ve done some minor fixes to the design, adding some icons to the sidebar. The cache might make it look a bit funky for a bit, both browser (Ctrl+F5 for Windows users, Command+R for Mac people), and server caching. Live with it, I’ve had to during this whole process. The [...]

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