blogging tips

3 Ways To Better Hold Your Visitor’s Attention On Your Blog Posts

June 30, 2019 By Mike R. Leave a Comment

While getting people to come to your blog is a victory in and of itself, this victory can feel a little cheapened if you notice that those who are visiting your blog are bouncing right off after just a few seconds on your page. Luckily, there are things you can do to mitigate this issue […]

5 Tips to Use Your Blog for Better SEO

October 24, 2017 By Mike R. Leave a Comment

Creating SEO-friendly blog posts is an excellent way to improve your search rankings. Content is the root of most people’s SEO strategies, but that doesn’t mean they always use SEO appropriately, especially in their blog posts. According to a study from Conductor, 66 percent of companies combine their content creation strategies with their SEO campaigns […]

How To Turn Your Blog Into Your Business

March 1, 2017 By Mike R.

If you’re a blogger and you enjoy doing what you do, you may someday decide you want to turn your love of blogging into a business. You might want to simply monetize your blog, or maybe you’ll want to do more than just that. Have you watched the movie ‘Julie and Julia’? In this movie, […]

Web Design Tools You Wish You Knew About When First Designing Your Website

It’s easy to have perfect vision in hindsight, but when designing a website a little planning ahead can give you a perfect vision from the get-go. Many web designers find themselves performing redundant tasks, or creating things with manual effort that could otherwise be automated. Check out these useful web design tools that you’ll be […]

Best Resources to Use for Web Design Ideas

Web designers may have their own ideas when creating a layout design for a website but similar to writers, they also experience the so-called mental block syndrome at certain times. Fortunately, the web has a wealth of information available and designers can always turn to it for inspiration. It may surprise you to know that […]

The “Horrible Web Design Client:” An Infographic Look

Web design is a new frontier in creative designing. It takes a special set of design skills to make an effective web site. A good web site is not just pretty to look at, or filled with a lot of cool Flash animations, it is also easily navigable, with well laid out elements that are […]

Pagelines PlatformPro 1.3 – The Upgrade

PlatformPro 1.3, the latest upgraded version of the successful PlatformPro Theme by PageLines, has finally hit the market. Packed with 20 or so new options and features, it has undergone some major changes; the most important of which are listed here: The new Web Typography tool provides direct integration with Google’s Font API. This provides […]

Design tip: use extraordinary imagery

Drawn.ca has posted 2 interesting sources of atypical imagery which, I realized, can be great design inspiration: First, Dogfoose uses close-up images of produce in his illustrations. The sample below uses broccoli as treetops for a kids magazine illustration: What an amusing way to channel the miniature look (achieved through tilt-shift photography) for infographics purposes! […]

iThemes Builder – Your one-stop WordPress Theme Builder

This revolutionary new theme is incredibly easy to install – simply upload it into the themes folder, click activate – that’s it! As with all their themes, iThemes have included a My Themes widget, providing links to special features within the theme itself, as well as relevant information for the configuration of WordPress. The layout […]