5 ways to use Social Media Effectively on a small blog

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Getting traffic to a small blog can be hard. Social Media sites only seem to love the big sites, and it seems like you can only get on the frontpage of a Social Media site if you have a lot [...]

Launched a new site! Oppinions please!

Hey Guys,
Long time no update, I know. From tomorrow you should start expecting some more regular content. In the meantime I am extremely happy to announce the launch of PSD to WordPress. I managed to launch it Yesterday.
If anyone from this blog orders, use the coupon WDL15 and recieve 15% off! I hope people can [...]

Winners and an Update!

Well, an update. I havn’t updated in a while due to vacation, no excuse but I’ll play that card anyway So We’ve had that competition, now onto the results! We had some magnificent submissions but one of them easily stood out.

User-testing your blog or website

We all think our websites and blogs are easy to use. The positioning of navigation elements, the words we use for page titles, the widgets in the sidebar … they all make perfect sense. To us.
It’s easy to lose sight of the readers of our blog, who – depending on our niche – might have [...]

Accessible Links - The Quick Guide

Maybe not the sexiest or most glamorous topic for a blog post – but interesting nonetheless – the hyperlink is possibly the most commonly used of the HTML elements, and probably the most overlooked.
Have you ever stopped to think whether or not your links are actually living up to their full potential? Are they usable, [...]

Portfolio - have you thought enough?

A strong portfolio is essential in order to become a success in the web development business. Fact.
Your portfolio is a client/companies first impression of you, your sales pitch. Fact.
Your probably havent thought thoroughly about exactly what makes up your portfolio and the impression it gives an audience…..Fact.
Its a common mistake amongst developers and designers to [...]

9 Reasons Why People Love Lists

Lists. We see them everywhere these days, and there’s no denying the fact that we all love them. Everybody from Moses (a la Ten Commandments) to MTV (Top 10 countdowns) did lists, and they’re still around. Just take a look at sites like Digg or del.icio.us and there’s bound to be at least a couple [...]

Why You Need to Worry About Web Standards, and Why Your Client Won’t.

It’s often an uphill battle when it comes to explaining the importance of web standards to our clients. Web designers and developers tend to rant on about accessible design and valid HTML while forgetting the fact that many of our clients just don’t care. In fact, many developers don’t bother with it either, and that [...]

Blog Boom Burst?

Could the world of blogging be about to take a nose dive into the world of historic internet fads? Surely not…
Everywhere you turn you see abandoned blogs, redundant blogger accounts and washed up wordpress installations. Blogging has become the internet’s trash 2.0. But why? A tool so accessible, easy to use and fundamentally liberating is [...]