Wisdump

Dumping wisdom on design and the web

Tips on how to choose the perfect blog writing site

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There are millions of clients all over the world who are interested in redesigning their website as it is much easier than designing it from the scratch. They generally assign all these works to a good blog writer or a company experienced in this field. It is very important to get hold of the right blog writer for your website and hence you need to be very careful when you browse through the vast blog network. You should probably take help of the various blog network guides available online in order to make sure that you get the best quality articles for your website.

Once you are pretty sure about the content of your website the next most important thing that you need to decide is a web hosting service that will host your website so that it is publically available on the internet. Personal web hosting services are becoming more popular nowadays as they are generally less expensive and also customizable. One main issue that you need to consider is the availability of sufficient bandwidth if your website contains videos and other stuff. Hence you can go for personal web hosting provided that it does not compromise with your bandwidth.

In order to make your website popular and widespread and earn a lot of money through website designing, you need to look well into certain issues such as the content of your website and also the web hosting service that you are choosing for your website. Deciding upon both of them correctly will only result to the success of your website.

8 web design warm fuzzy feelings

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I think Rundle would appreciate this list more than me, but I can definitely go along with it.

  1. When your markup is readable by humans
  2. When your functionality degrades gracefully
  3. When you can increase the text size willy nilly and it doesn’t break your layout
  4. When your site works in Internet Explorer without you trying
  5. When your site’s hierarchy is hierarchical even without your stylesheet
  6. When your url structure makes sense
  7. When you make a really awesome form
  8. When the client says “this is great, this is exactly what we wanted” and you agree

Comments are not Group Wisdom

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Jeremy “Two First Names Make One Cool Name” Keith shares his thoughts on communities and I can understand his point about groups being their own worse enemies, but I don’t think individual comments represent group wisdom. The Group Wisdom in Newsvine, Digg and other such sites is the fact that they can show which stories should be the most popular. The ensuing discussions that occur in the comments are simply individual thoughts and therefore should not be representative of group think.

This doesn’t hide the fact that comments shouldn’t be opened up for everything and this is clearly reflected on Jason Kottke’s site where he is very selective with which entry has comments open.

A note from the owner

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As the current owner of Wisdump, I’d like to quickly take this opportunity to say a couple of things-:

a. As was pointed out by Matt Mullenweg, there was indeed a “spammy tactic” being employed at this blog in the form of an “embedded a 1×1 pixel iframe loading the ping page for Ping-O-Matic on every one of the pages”.

b. This is against the policy of Splashpress in every sense. We sincerely apologize and own up to it, as has been recommended by Martin Neumann. It will not happen again on any of our sites and the person responsible is no longer associated with Wisdump or Splashpress.

c. Some of the comments on this blog have been moderated, as being “abusive“. As we haven’t gotten round to putting up a specific comments policy on Wisdump yet, we are using the criteria as laid out at another of our blogs, The Blog Herald.

This post is an apology to all concerned and for disclosure purposes only. Comments are closed.

Thanks for your time.

Sincerely,

Mark Saunders

Splashpress Media

Selling Fine Fools

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A couple of days ago I talked about letting things die and I wrote that entry knowing that I would be selling the Fine Fools Network. It’s not a hard thing to do now, but it’s probably something that should have been done a long time ago, but it was hard to let something die that I knew I could make stronger. Of all the projects that I have done in the past I learned the most from this one and I have no regrets.

It caused me a lot of shit that’s for sure, but that only made me stronger and helped me to understand where 100% of my focus needs to be. One day I’m sure I will talk about the lessons that I learned so hopefully many of you don’t make the same mistakes as me, but for now if you are interested go check out the auction if buying sites is your kind of thing.

The server move is complete so everyone should be able to see this entry and carry on ignoring me as usual.