May
20
I’ve been working on my 404 error page - you know, the page you get when you click a broken link or type an address in wrong. Don’t you hate it when that happens?
photo credit: Gaetan Lee
So what does that have to do with space men and gorillas? Take a look and see. Let me know what you think.
Visit Area 404
Want to know more about how to create a 404 error page in WordPress?
See Are You Losing Readers From Your 404 Page?
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May
20
Here’s a great ready-made To Do List of quick improvements you can make to your website. Definitely one to bookmark. I know I’ll be working through them. I may not agree with 100% of them, but most look pretty spot-on.
Here are a few items from the list:
- Keep background colors and images at a minimum. Backgrounds are often less than visually appealing and can make your site load slowly.
- Reduce choices. Avoid overwhelming your visitor with lots of different options.
- Stay consistent. Check to make sure that colors and design are in the same general scheme so that visitors know they’re still on your site.
- Validate design in alternative browsers. See how your design renders in browsers like Safari, Opera and Firefox to make sure that it looks right no matter who is viewing it.
101 Five-Minute Fixes to Incrementally Improve Your Website
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- Wednesday, January 7th, at 12:37pm
When I get my eZine up and running, I’ll be publishing it using ‘WordBurner’. I’ve always planned to use WordPress and Feedburner to manage my eZine, but wasn’t sure exactly how to do it. Luckily I happened upon a tutorial from Nettuts that explains how it’s done:
Build a ‘WordBurner’ Email Newsletter Manager using WordPress and FeedBurner - NETTUTS
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- Friday, December 19th, at 4:43pm
Negative headlines arouse curiosity
Here’s a great article about writing compelling headlines…
It’s the reason people love NASCAR and read National Enquirer.
We don’t want to admit it. We’re not supposed to feel that way. But secretly buried, deep down inside, we all want a front row seat to the wipe out of the season.
Read the whole story at copyblogger.com/train-wreck-blogging/
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- Thursday, December 18th, at 10:00pm
Did you know that you can post to your WP blog using an iPhone/iPod Touch? I’m doing exactly that using the WordPress app right now. Just need to set up my Press This bookmarklet in Safari and see if that works.
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- Wednesday, December 17th, at 9:02pm
404 Error page of Center'd!
Here are 60 Really Cool and Creative Error 404 Pages.
Just remember that your error page should be designed primarily to help your visitors get back on track as quickly as possible. Secondarily, being funny helps to take the sting of frustration out of getting lost on your site. Better to be helpful and not-so-funny than to just be amusing and not helpful.
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- Friday, June 13th, at 2:04am
Darren Rowse of ProBlogger has written a great post about batch processing his blogging-related tasks. Doing similar tasks in batches is a great time-saving (and sanity-saving) technique for most activities in life, not just blogging. Darren goes into detail about how he does it, and it’s well worth a read.
Read the whole article: How Batch Processing Made Me 10 Times More Productive
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