In the Longest Day of the Year…

In the longest day of the year, hidden away in your personal oasis, you can get Google send 16350 visitors to your blog only by blogging about the first day of summer, or you can close your eyes and imagine how ICANN is going to open up the internet to those who will show full [...]

Four Ways to Provide Convenience to Your Readers

Small details usually only matter when there is something wrong. These small details, however, can make or break what is a good experience.

Blogs are no exception, and paying attention to certain small details can allow your readers to have a good experience on your website. Your readers probably won’t notice, but that is likely a good thing.

The Blog Herald and Full Feeds

Today I read my first ever WordPress Wednesday in my feed reader.

It’s sort of my Wednesday tradition. I wait for Lorelle to publish, I head over to the Blog Herald, and I read over the latest news. But today I opened up Google Reader, clicked on the post, and it was ALL there. No “read more”, no teaser — the whole shebang.

Six Ways to Tell Your Readers Apart Through Comments

When readers leave a comment on your site, the reader is momentarily focused completely on you, be it your thoughts, your words, or something else. Do your readers a favor, and provide some focus back on them.

With the launch of the new design, I had a chance to re-examine the comment section. I chose to more-or-less keep the comment section the same, however I made an effort to provide some special emphasis on allowing the readers to stand out.

The Best Blogging Technique to Attract Readers and Stick Them to a Blog

Do you know Rubik’s Cube? If you do, then you probably remember the frustration of endless hours, rotations and calculations, only to get into a bigger mess of colors.
And if you happened to have a brother like mine, who was hiding from me, and then came out with the magic cube solved, you can imagine [...]