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• Blogging Tips, Making Money

  Skip the Middleman: Monetizing Your Blog Without a Network

  06.16.08 | Permalink | 7 Comments

  This guest post by Matt Harzewski (a.k.a. “redwall_hp”) of Webmaster-Source, provider of daily tutorials, tips, roundups, and links for bloggers and designers alike.
  What sort of ads does your blog have? Let me guess… It’s an odd combination of AdSense, Kontera, AdBrite, and other ad networks, which add clutter to your blog and straddle the border […]

• Resources, Web Design

  20+ Free Web Design Ebooks And Guides

  03.04.08 | Permalink | 25 Comments

  Even though there are plenty of books available in stores on almost all aspects of web design, you don’t need to spend a dime when you can get all the basic information for free. The following list of free web design ebooks and guides will get you started building accessible, usable, and useful web sites […]

• Blogging Tips, Building Readership

  5 Ways To Make Me Your Subscriber

  11.01.07 | Permalink | 19 Comments

  Previously, I have written about what on a blog puts me off as a visitor and keeps me from subscribing to it. Today, I am going to disclose what makes me subscribe to a blog and how you can learn from my perspective as a reader to improve your own blog.

• Productivity, Resources, Writing Tips

  15+ Alternatives to Your Boring Blog Editor

  10.29.07 | Permalink | 37 Comments

  Are you tired of your blog’s default post editor? So am I, and being the kind person I am, I have put together a list of 15+ blog editor alternatives so you don’t have to put up with that jerk of a editor (excuse the pun). I especiaslly love desktop-based blog editors because they let me write and edit posts offline and off-browser, which minimizes distractions and maxizes productivity. Online editors are also more feature-rich than boring ol’ default post editor in WordPress.

• Blogging Tips, Building Readership, Social Media

  How To Turn Your Personal Blog Into a Semi-Pro Blog

  10.18.07 | Permalink | 16 Comments

  You know why blogging became popular? Because it let the geniuses like you and I publish their rants thoughts about random stuff online. Blogs were supposed to be personal diaries.

  Then, the cult of business-minded came along and turned blogs into online profit-turning machines, and set down a completely different definition of blogging. Of course, money feels and smells good, so everyone liked the renewed definition of blogging, leaving personal blogs behind.

• SEO Tips

  4 Reasons Why Google Isn’t Penalizing You And You Are Just Paranoid

  10.11.07 | Permalink | 27 Comments

  Ever since Google came out openly with its stance about advertisers and link sellers who try to manipulate Google’s PageRank algorithm, there has been a great deal of unrest in the blogosphere. You can hear angry voices coming from virtually all directions.

  I really find it laughable that many of the well reputed bloggers have succumbed to the temptation of crying foul against Google. They think Google has penalized them for selling links, OK fair enough. Wait.. they also think that Google is manually penalizing their site to rank low in SERPs, and that Google has set spies to trawl through the world wide web to catch the criminals red-handed. This is where their paranoia becomes evident.

• Resources, Web Design

  54 Typography Resources Every Designer Should Bookmark

  10.10.07 | Permalink | 34 Comments

  If you are a web designer, or a passionate CSS hobbyist, you must be aware of the impact well structured typography can have on your overall design. Though, optimizing your typography to work on old and new versions of plethora of web browsers on various operating systems can prove to be quite a headache. With the following list of resources, you can learn, optimize, and beautify your web typography, and never need to worry about those pesky compatibility issues again (I wish!).

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