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6 tips to improve your blog articles

Pebbles

To write a great blog post it must consist of the following.

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How much money is your blog worth?

Recently I posed the question, “What’s your logo worth?” Today I’m asking, “How much money is your blog worth?” Whenever someone leaves a comment on my blog I’m always curious to see what they’re posting about themselves, so I follow their hyperlink from the comment form and browse their blog. Today I found an interesting, [...]

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Focus on graphic design blogs

Ace Jet 170

Ace Jet 170 is a blog by Richard Weston, an English graphic designer working in Belfast (a city close to my heart). Richard is married with two “very young, active, funny and very brilliant” boys. At work he mainly develops and implements brands and corporate IDs, works very hard and eats cake.

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What is RSS?

Watch and learn how you can benefit by using RSS subscriptions. This short video tutorial from commoncraft describes how to save yourself time. Go on, subscribe via RSS.

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The gaming of Technorati favorites?

There have been a host of articles published recently about Technorati favorites and the race to get into the top 100 list on the Technorati website. Some of those people writing are Maki of Dosh Dosh, with the first largescale Technorati favorite exchange I’ve seen, and Gary Vaughan, who participates whilst calling the exchange “gaming”. [...]

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Does blogging interfere with your day job?

This is a question of particular relevance for me at this exact point in time. davidthedesigner asked me this question a while back, and I was thinking about it today during the beginning of my house move. Does blogging interfere with your day job? Obviously if you’re a professional blogger this won’t apply. However, there [...]

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Making your blog more about your readers

In a continuous effort to involve you more in this little blog of mine, I’ve made two subtle changes today. Firstly, you’ll notice in the horizontal navigation at the top of the page that there’s a new section for Quotes of yours. I was asked to include a page showing all of your suggestions, so [...]

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Creative Design Awards now open

Creative Design Awards

I’d like to give you credit for implementing what I believe is an excellent design element into your website or blog. Be it a great logo, footer, use of imagery, or something unique that I’ve not seen anywhere else. Hence my humble Creative Design Awards.

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We’ve just passed 1,000 comments!

During the short life of this blog, you’ve helped me to learn more about the subject I love, so I’m extending this little thanks to all of you who have participated along the way. At the time of writing, the comment count is 1,005, spanning 144 blog posts contained within 22 categories. A small milestone [...]

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Here’s what happens when you get on the front page of Digg

server error

A number of things happen when one of your blog articles reaches the front page of Digg.

1/ Your server crashes due to the high load

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