Archive for the 'Blogging' Category

Why I’m Not a Fan of Wordpress 2.5

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Quick and Dirty Logo Generator

Need a logo but don’t have hundreds (or thousands) to drop on one? HP has a service called Logomaker that will allow you to run through a set of icons and fonts and create your own logo. You’ll have to create a login to use it, but you can use it for free on a limited basis or pay $49 to have control over the logo.

Google Referrals 2.0

I hope to have a longer post at a later date, but I’ve taken a quick look at Google’s new Referrals product. It’s a bit different than what I think of affiliate or referral programs. Most programs allow you to include a code in a link that tracks the person as coming from you in [...]

Helvetica Turns 50

One of the reasons that I love reading Kevin’s blog is that he’s an unabashed geek about certain things where there is no geek cachet to be had. He’s willing to point to a BBC article celebrating the 50th birthday of the Helvetica font.
While I prefer serif fonts, especially Georgia and Century Schoolbook, for printed [...]

Way to Kill Traffic #1

The Realtor.com website allows frequent users to establish a login so that they can save searches and get e-mailed results from these searches. Generally, the website is pretty clean and user friendly. Searching for homes is right at eye level on the screen and is brightly colored. The other frequently used tools are below that [...]

30 Tips Every Blogger Should Know

Lorelle Van Fossen from Lorelle on Wordpress has a fantastic guest article at Problogger on 30 writing tips that every blogger should know. Basically, the article goes through 30 tips that apply to writing in general but apply especially to bloggers. I don’t follow all of these tips as many of my posts are written and edited [...]