Colors bring out an emotional response in everyone – and while it may not be the same emotion in all of us, there are some commonly accepted ties to certain colors. Pulling a small segment from a 2004 article written by Naz Kaya, Ph.D. and Helen H. Eppds, Ph.D., professors from the Department of Textiles, Merchandising and Interiors at The University of Georgia: The color red...
Yesterday I opened the floor to the conversation about web design – and the 10 questions any good web designer should ask. While these are great questions, and extremely important, it is also imperative that you ask your designer questions before you decide to hire them. These questions will help clarify the scope of the work and eliminate a lot of the stress of working with...
Categories are simply the large ideas that you cover in your blog. Usually these are found in a list on the sidebar of the blog for your readers (like mine) to find easily. Categories are extremely important for a lot of reasons, but mostly for organization and search engine optimization. Categories make it easy for your readers to read more posts in certain topics –...
No matter whether you are a business owner or an employee, planning for downtime is imperative. Planning for downtime is realistic – but it can also be difficult when you are busy. When you are overwhelmed with work it may feel like it’s never going to slow down so you don’t worry. Then the slow down hits…like a ton of bricks on an unprepared business....
What wall did you break through? What mountain did you climb? What did you do that they said couldn’t be done? Go ahead, brag, boast and share…I want to know! ...
If you’re this guy, you definitely do:Scary thing? There are more people than I can count that are just like this guy. They are taking the business plunge with zero idea about how to actually do what they are offering. Need an example? Just browse through twitter to see the thousands of “social media gurus”…without quality followers, no conversations, and no experience to back them...
today, ari herzog called out uppercase letters and blogging. personally, it bothered me a bit because i found it a little difficult to read. i have received emails like that and i definitely feel like i am getting yelled at by the writer, even though they probably didn’t mean anything by it. i could still read the content and still got the idea, it just...
…with Sexy Bookmarks, that is I have a list of plugins that I love: all in one seo pack, wordtwit, akismet, disqus, etc…but until recently, I didn’t have a social bookmarking suggestion tool I liked. I use tweetmeme for twitter, which is awesome, but what about Digg, facebook and stumbleupon? Or sharing my articles via email? I had nothing. So now…if you scroll down...
I was very excited to see the responses and the conversation that my post on the 10 reasons you shouldn’t start a blog gathered. In addition to the great comments on the blog itself, it stemmed some awesome conversations on twitter and facebook. What many people asked was if these were the reasons not to start a blog, what reasons are there to start a...
A few months ago, I talked about the fact that bloggers are taking over the world…and shared some impressive statistics on the number of blogs and blog readers in the world. While these numbers are not 100% perfect, it is safe to assume they are pretty darn close to reality. Of those blogs that exist, I would guess that less than half of them are...
