Increased traffic. Joining a blog network exposes your blog to every reader of every other blogger in the network. This can exponentially increase the number of people made aware of your blog, and will inevitably result in a surge of traffic to your blog.

Work reduction. When you partner with others in a blog network, it is not unusual to find that there is one person responsible for the majority of the blog maintenance, comment moderation and spam-riddance. It doesn’t matter if the network is dedicated to one niche or evolves around everything from food to updates on other websites. This relieves you of much of the menial task work that plagues independent bloggers, and frees your time up so you can do more of what you like to do the most: blog

Networking. One of the most obvious benefits of joining a blog network is the chance you have to “meet” other, like-minded bloggers. This can be a great source of support, inspiration, and creative synergy, which can ultimately help better your blogging (and your emotional well-being).

Consistency. If you find it difficult to post regularly and consistently, then you will be pleased to find that your blog network will consistently grow and evolve, even if you only contribute sporadically. That is because your blog network will benefit from the contributions of all the other bloggers on the network.

Mentorship. No matter what your blogging experience or what type/size of blog network you join, you can bet that there will be a more experienced and successful blogger in your network that you can learn from. Becoming a member of a blog network makes you privy to insider information that only the best bloggers know, which can be an invaluable tool for fine-tuning your blogging skills.

As you can see, there are many reasons for why you may want to consider joining a blog network. Take inventory of your blog’s strengths and weaknesses and ask if you (and your blog) might benefit from partnering with a network.

These instructions are given below that will help you to create an awesome user interface :

1. Make it simple:

The user interface you are making should have to be simple. You will have to make the interface clear. There will be no unnecessary button in the interface. You will have to make sure that the user will not need any manual to use it. The interface should have visual clarity and simplicity.

2. No unnecessary data

There will be no unnecessary data in the interface. You will have to make the interface user friendly, but that do not mean that you will keep everything open on the interface. In that case, it will be disgusting for the user. So simplify it, but do not make it simplest.

3. Proper communication with the user

Communication with the user is very necessary. Those who will be using the interface for the first time will not know everything about it. So the buttons you will use in the interface will have to be familiar. You will have to those kinds of buttons, which make the user feel that this button is only for navigation or menu.

4. Make it speedy

Another very important thing about the interface that ot should have proper processing speed. If it takes, too much time for processing the commands, then it will not be welcomed by the users. So the user interface should have to be the speed to make everything in time. If the speed is not good enough, then the users will be boarded at the time of using it.

5. Easy to understand

There will be no complication in the interface. It should be created in such a way that the user will be able to understand everything, if he use only a few minutes for it. You will have to use the same type of interface in every part of the same application. If the interface is different in different places, then it will make the users angry. So try to avoid these types of problems.

6. Make the interface enjoyable

Making the interface good looking is not so important. You will have to make it is such way, which will make the user excited about the application as well as the interface.

7. Data recovery system

There is one saying that “to err is human”. So it is very common making mistakes at the time of using the interface. So you will have to keep systems for recovering data. The deleting system of the interface should have the system of restoring that data. So you will have to create something like the recycle bin in your application. Otherwise recovering data will not be possible for the users.

If you follow all of these, then you will be able to create a great interface. This will make all the users happy and your product famous. The glory will be all yours. Among these instructions, some of those can make clash with the others. You will have to solve those problems and make it perfect and that is the one and only requirements to be a software designer.

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I was one of those who, although somewhat intrigued by the new format, did not want to change because I already liked the way my profile looked. A few weeks later, well, what do you know? I was informed that the new design was being rolled out to me whether I liked it or not. A few friends who had skipped Facebook for a couple of days were a bit disoriented after having discovered the complete overhaul in the look of their profiles.

I didn’t really whine much because Facebook is, after all, a free service, and I never really trust freebies. To restate a friend’s wry comment, it’s “just like love, free but under certain conditions.” Nevertheless, it made me a bit cranky, because hey, I like my status updates right up there. I clear that space when I’ve got nothing to say, but when I do put something up, it’s because that’s what I want my friends to read, not those wall posts and links other people have added in my absence (no, I am not on FB 24 hours a day) that would otherwise push my status update down my wall.

Anyway, in the interest of understanding why Facebook has, once again, shaken us out of our comfort zones, let’s take a look at what has been changed and more importantly, why. A note released by one of Facebook’s employees attempts to explain these.

The new profile features:

• A quick summary of who you are (like where you live, work and grew up), right at the top of your profile
• A row of recently tagged photos so friends can see what you’ve been up to lately
• Room to highlight meaningful friendships (like teammates, co-workers or roommates)
• More of your favorite activities and interests
• The ability to tag your friends in important life experiences

I have to admit, the row of photos at the upper portion of the wall did appear somewhat stylish to me, UNTIL I realized that these were tagged photos and NOT profile pictures. Instead of snapshots of me with my friends, I could see photos of birthday calendars, items being sold online, and other inane things that I’ve been tagged in but really don’t want on my wall. There’s an option to remove pictures from the lineup, but really, do you want to spend your time clicking away, removing all of the tagged photos you don’t like?

Boxes for applications have also been done away with. Now I can’t really say I was crazy about those. In my opinion, they made pages look a tad cluttered. I do wish we still had more control over the “About Me” field. Reading about where a friend works just doesn’t interest me as much as seeing more personality on people’s pages. If I had wanted to know about employment specifics, I would have clicked on the tab for that sort of information, anyway.

In any case, the new profile design is here and it’s here to stay. Facebook hasn’t shown signs of succumbing to public clamor, so it’s either we live with it or bail out. Personally, I’m keeping my account because the new design isn’t going to kill me and Facebook is still the easiest way for me to stay in touch with my networks. Still, I’m not sure about the new look. It doesn’t seem to accomplish all that much for me, which makes me think that the new look isn’t providing the kind of function preferred by many (if not most) users.

Amidst all of the annoyed/irritated/violent status updates and comments complaining about Facebook’s new profile design, let’s try to be level-headed here. What do you think about the new look after having had a few days or weeks to get used to it? Is the purpose for the change clear, and is Facebook successful in tying up their supposed objectives with the preferences of the public?

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I own 3 desktop computers, 1 laptop, a Sidekick, a Blackberry and many other gadgets. How can I better manage my life? The technology is there, but the common sense seems to be missing or something.

Keith’s To-Done has been helping me out some, but I am looking for more and in the process of looking I am missing out on getting work done. My biggest problem is email. It was discussed in the comments of freelancing traits how important it is to respond to emails. I am horrible at this. I receive anywhere from 150-300 non-spam emails a day. Obviously I can’t respond to all of them and still get all my work done and maintain some type of social life.

So how do you manage it all?

I know that some designers/developers are able to enjoy all of their clients and all the work that they do. How do they do it? I have no idea, because I know that I was never even close to that. Once you invite a client in to pay the bills you lose a part of that freedom. Some clients wish to take all of that freedom away from you and those are the ones that you just don’t deal with.

The reason I say that you lose part of your freedom is because you aren’t painting a piece of art to be auctioned off to someone who happens to like your style (unless you do template design), but you are mixing your design tastes with that of the client. That’s where part of your freedom goes.

That’s why personal site design is so important. Every designer/developer needs her playground to experiment and have fun with. You can see it here on Whitespace every single day almost. I am on design #46 I believe for this site. The design moves along with my tastes for the moment and I get to see what works and what doesn’t. Many would argue that constantly changing the design can turn your readers off. This may certainly be the case, but no offence to your readers, at times you have to look out for your own happiness.

I believe if you want to do design your whole life there has to be a part of your day, week, month, year that you devote to your own work. Try your best to filter out what other’s will think of it and focus on how you feel about it. Hell, you don’t have to make every site you do a public one. Create a section that is just for you and have at it.

Even when you do this though, you can get burnt out from work, whether it be the corporate world or demanding clients. What keeps you going? How close have you been to just saying fuck it and moving on to something else? Can you do design your whole life?

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

After my entry about Automattic, sponsored themes and ethics last night, Matt Mullenweg himself called me out. And I’m glad he did, even if there might be consequences for me after this post. If there are… I’ll deal with them, no matter what happens, I value my pride.

The attacks sting less when they’re from people with questionable personal practices. [1]…
[1] For example one attack post from “Franky” on a blog called Wisdump (didn’t that used to be run by the awesome Paul Scrivens?) I noticed it was loading a little slow, then I saw pingomatic.com in my address bar. I looked at his source and saw he had embedded a 1×1 pixel iframe loading the ping page for Ping-O-Matic on every one of his pages. I must admit this is clever, it utilizes the distributed network of everyone who visits your site to attack Ping-O-Matic and spam the ping servers, and of course IP blocking is useless because it’s coming from the regular folks on your site. But it is also extremely skeevy. (And I believe a little bit of JS on the ping page should fix that right up.)

I am a blogger here at Wisdump, someone walking a certain path of legacy. Let me explain you the ‘legacy thing’.

I started as a personal cat blogger, trying to keep track of my life and save my biography online, but soon my geek nature took over and I got interested more and more in blogging as a profession. Not a future for me, but an art I wanted to understand. Opinionated as I am, soon I discovered The Blog Herald, in those days still run by Duncan Riley, soon followed by other opinionated people such as Matt Craven, David Krug and Martin Neumann. Via The Blog Herald I discovered two of my favorite bloggers, Mike Rundle and Paul Scrivs, both of 9rules fame. The reason why I mention these bloggers is because they are honest… and aren’t afraid to be upfront, straightforward, blunt even at times- exactly how I tick.

Time went on as I continued enjoying those bloggers. Until one day, I criticized the former Bloggy Network Ltd., nowadays Splashpress. Before I knew it, I had landed myself a gig as author at Jack Of All Blogs. I learnt a lot about blogging for a popular blog, but sadly my real life job sucked up my energy and I had no time anymore to blog for JOAB or SP. As time passed by, Splashpress and I developed a rather erratic, but healthy relationship. I would love to be able to invest more time in Splashpress and be more reliable, but I still haven’t been able to find the guts to opt for the online life above my real life job, a very exciting one. Nevertheless, today I have the opportunity to blog on the former sites of some of my favored bloggers and for Splashpress, such as Wisdump.

Flash forward to today. Or last night, rather.

More than once I have written about Matt in the past, whether at JOAB, my former blog- Am I Famous Now- or here at Wisdump. I just am opinionated and certainly not scared of some controversy. But I think [and hope] that my opinions offer some food for thought. And when working for someone, or blogging for someone, I do believe in their honesty and ethics.

Last night, when I published the entry here at Wisdump, I thought I had a valid point. And I still think that I do. I believe in open source, I believe in WordPress as a platform… and I believe in creating a Foundation for WordPress and releasing the trademark to that foundation. But Matt called me out.

And that sucks. Not because he called me out, but rather because I can’t help my wrong and also the fact that he called ME out proves that my entry wasn’t the stupidest anti-post on that topic.

This is where I have to admit failure. Before I wrote the entry, I checked the source code of the Wisdump homepage. But only the code of the homepage. Although I had noticed an increase in trackbacks at Technorati, especially trackbacks from Wisdump itself, I didn’t investigate any further when I saw nothing suspicious in the homepage source code.

I was wrong. Some spammy practices are happening at this blog and sadly I couldn’t prevent them. They hurt me. They hurt my pride. And just as I appealed to Automattic, Inc yesterday to release the trademark to the community, today I am consequent. I can only guess what happened, but the person responsible for the 1×1 link to Ping-o-matic, please stand up and reveal yourself.

Applying such strategies on a co-authored blog are a no-do’er. Maybe not from your own perspective, but they might be for all the other people trying to keep the honor of the Paul Scrivens legacy up. I will make my decisions based on your call, even if it means I’ll have to return to my own little, irregularly updated blog with an average of 11 unique visitors daily, but I hope you will be as consequent and honest as I am.

To you, Matt, I sincerely appreciate your call out and hope you’ll accept this entry as a rectification. Our views might differ in certain areas, but I will always respect what you have created and more even that you’ve called me out. Especially since you did it without linking.

I’m sure the future will bring more topics we disagree on, but today… today, I am humble.

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-No big yellow Digg badges for articles unless they have original content, new reporting, treatment, or photos. It’s not fair when we get the Digg for someone else’s work.

This has to be one of the more ridiculous rules, statements, whatever that I have seen in a while when it comes to the Web. First of all, good luck enforcing your so-called rules. Yes you can control the badges that appear on your site, however the community as a whole are not going to conform to your rules. As you saw with the “Digg Spam” article itself, putting in place barriers just fans the fire. If your not a believer about that statement take a look at how removing the unlock codes for Blu Ray sent the Digg community into an almost rebellious state posting the code over and over again.

Digg is a social bookmarking site that doesn’t take in regard for original work, it is simply a link to something that someone finds that is cool and wants to share with the community. Sharing shouldn’t be frowned upon when it is in fact the basis for the internet as a whole. Users of Digg are not going to track down the origin of specific content, that is not the goal of the site and it is nearly impossible in many instances anyway.

The Web has become a place where information is written, massaged, replicated, re-replicated, and fed to any number of locations, tools, and readers. Who knows where in the chain someone finds the information. At whatever point the user comes across the information there may be zero indications of who the original author was, or even that the site they are reading is in fact not the original author. It’s not right, but it’s the way of the world.

We Don’t Dig Digg

Why is it that Digg was singled out on this one? How many times are Gizmodo’s articles linked thousands of times on Del.icio.us, Reddit, or other similar services? Why are these services not mentioned and why is it ok for these sites to link to content that is not original, but for Digg it is not?

The Digg badges that are places on the site are helpful tools to get the story promoted by people who find it interesting. Why would you take the abilities of the user away? Yes they can still Digg the story but the convenience is gone. So really what are you proving other then making it more difficult for your own user base?

Heavy Weights

Many of the stories that get high marks on Digg are often prefixed with the sites name which gives the stories weight immediately. The Gizmodo story about Digg Spam is a prime example of this. The headline on Digg read: “Gizmodo: Digg Spam Sucks”. Many of Gizmodo’s stories get heavy numbers of Digg’s because it is in fact a very credible site when it comes to news.

Not putting the Digg badges on the stories really means a few less Digg’s because people are inherently lazy and probably won’t go find the story on Digg.com. Who is this dis-servicing though? I would have to say it’s the contents originator. Even though Gizmodo or another is getting the Digg’s the content author knows that it’s his content and can feel pride in the fact that it’s getting such heavy views.

If a site wants to help the person who created the content then they should give them credit more prominently so that users know it came from another source, even if they got to the site that replicated it through Digg. Without the giants like Gizmodo some of this content wouldn’t be seen by a large number of people.

It is not what you know, but who you know and if you don’t know anyone then it becomes how you make yourself look.

In the online space you can talk about anything and make yourself look like a genius. For the first 2 years of this site I wrote posts that deemed me an expert in design by many (dead serious), but all I really did was give my opinion. How many other “experts” are out there solely based on their writings and not their actions? VCs probably head the top of this bunch because they have money and for some reason being rich (many times attributed to luck) also means being knowledgeable in how to make more money or what kind of business you need to run to become rich.

We were once told by a VC (well-known guy) that if we didn’t plan on making $100M in revenue a year then there was no point in talking to anyone. Fair enough, the guy has experience and is well-known so obviously he knows what he is talking about. But then one day I got to thinking on why I even thought that way. Was it because of his blog? Was it because of a book he wrote? What had this person actually done that made me believe that he was the end-all, be-all of VC knowledge and business?

Looking at his VC firm and what they have invested in and started I couldn’t find one successful startup in the bunch, but people run to this guy for advice. Amazing. That’s when I realized that in this online world you can position yourself as anybody you want to depending on how you present yourself. That’s how Michael Arrington can turn into the guru of Web 2.0 and Seth Godin is not only perceived as a genius at marketing, but business in general.

The thing is there are so many different places online that people can find out about us that depending on where they go they will form an opinion of you. If you only know me through here then you get one opinion of me which might contradict what you see from my social networking profiles that have me hanging out with girls and relaxing in a club.

So although you want to say that you have to be true to yourself and you should be able to portray yourself any way you want, you also must realize that you control many times how others perceive you and if you are okay with that then good. If not, there is a reason for it. However, don’t always believe what others are saying just because and don’t think someone knows what they are talking about simply because they published a book.

Then more and more people started to wonder what was going on with Bryan. Being worried even further I emailed Dan Rubin (his design partner I guess) to see what the deal is. Dan didn’t wish to give me any answers and I can respect that, but I still wanted to know what was going on. We still had no answer.

It even got to the point where 9rules members banded together to created a I Love Avalonstar site.

Then Bryan himself posted a message on his site and again it was vague. Again it played with the emotions of the people who look up to him. Again it kept people in the dark, but you know what? He could still Twitter that he was going to DDR. He couldn’t respond to emails or let people know that things are okay, but finding the time to do other things was not a problem at all.

Then we got the final message that his site would return on May 1. People looked forward to it. Then they had to wait. Wait some more and finally it launched. I could care less about the design. What I care about is the disrespect shown by him towards the people who worried. The disrespect shown towards the people who care. For some reason he gets the gold star for coming out with a new design, but for no reason has to apologize to anyone for the idiotic commotion he caused.

What’s even more sickening is that nobody has even called him out for it. Instead we get people patting him on the head telling him it’s okay that he isn’t happy with his redesign and we all have to fight personal demons (last I checked it was just a personal blog design, not a failed cure for cancer). What if someone in your life disappeared and only left vague messages and then came back only to tell you they have a new outfit?

Although Bryan is no longer in 9rules (no content can do that to ya) this has nothing to do with it. I’m sure he could care less whether he was in or not. This is about respect. This is about being a man and opening your eyes to the world. No doubt people will hate me for writing something about someone who is so loved, but I just don’t get it. This is a grown man acting like a child and loving every moment of the attention that he is getting and showing no respect to the people that got him to where he is at.

I noticed it a few days ago as well, my heart dropped when I found a plain white page, with a very vague explanation of where Bryan’s site has gone. I guess its one of those things that will keep us in suspense until we hear the bad news.

I’m going to take a wild guess, it wasn’t that bad because the message his wife/girl/fiance/whatever left was perfectly styled in that Veloso kind of way. I don’t write this out of anger towards Bryan, but out of disgust at the lack of respect afforded to everyone that reached a hand out to help him and was turned away.

The response, was nothing short of overwhelming. Emails, twitters, text messages, voicemails and even a website—all wondering about Avalonstar and making sure my family and I were alright. When I emereged, I got a glimpse of how much this community means to me, and how that bond is mutual. So to start off, I want to thank everybody that kept an eye out for Jen, the kitties and I and to everybody who helped me through this process.

Just for the record this past April, has been the longest month in recent memory. The reasons behind all of this have been ruled by rumor and speculation. However, with Avalonstar in its current state, I feel no need to communicate anything outside the bounds of what will be written today.

Thanks man, we really didn’t need you to communicate.

Making the decision to do what I did to Avalonstar proved to be one of the hardest of my career.

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Open your eyes to the world young buck. It’s just a site and if that’s the hardest decision of your career, you ain’t been through shit in your life yet.

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