The New Era of Blog Design

Blog design has donned a new cap, and it's called the portal. More and more bloggers are turning to flexible overview, or magazine style layouts for their home pages, rather ...

Aug 15th, 07 | 15 remarks »

Is Your Blog Scannable?

They say nobody reads websites. Instead, most people scan the pages they visit. I can buy that. I don't remember the last time I read an entire web page from ...

Aug 7th, 07 | 8 remarks »

Design Notes - File Sharing Made Simple

Randa became the unknowing source for this week's Notes, when she recently wrote about being unplugged for a few days. It occurred to me that, in a sense, our entire ...

Aug 3rd, 07 | 6 remarks »

Seeing Stars With Thunderbird

I'm a big fan of Thunderbird. I took a somewhat frightening step away from Outlook for it about a six months ago, and once I got comfortable, I've never looked ...

Aug 2nd, 07 | 5 remarks »

Create a Branded Search Plugin For Firefox

We as bloggers are often focused on ways to extend our reach, and we occasionally get caught up in articles with headlines like "15 Ways to Increase Readership!" or "50 ...

Aug 1st, 07 | 3 remarks »