Using ping.fm to strengthen your personal branding
Ever noticed how quick your (user)name pops up in search engine results after having registered and posted to online presence services? This is More »
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Setting up a community website [part II]
As discussed earlier, I am quite busy with preparing for the launch of undutchable.com. Further details can be found in the development blog.
Serving Visitors
Regular updates, quality and user-friendly design.As said before, at this moment the design is what keeps me from the other two aspects; regular updates and quality.So, while designing my new theme, most important thing I have in mind is serving visitors. A shortlist of my train of thoughts for the new theme: Clear and clean lay-outSimple navigationOutstanding headlinesFocus on content, extra\’s in the backgroundCross-browser functionalityEasy sociableGood in-site correlationThat last bullet might even be the most important to serve visitors most efficiently…. To me that is enough incentive to understand that what a visitor is being offered at first view (either on the main site or at a post\’s single page) is simply not satisfying nor a reason to click deeper into the site.Looking at the current structure of my site, I see too much text-clutterings which at first sight do not stand out separately and therefor are more troubling than clear.
How to get more comments
Performancing\’s Chris Garrett shows a good list of ways to get more comments on your blog:
Ask!
Seed
Ego
Links
Hint
Restraint
Usability
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LIFT \’06
While Down Under some leading (pro-)bloggers prepare for the Blogonomics Cruise, some other high-profile persons in the blogosphere gather in Geneva for LIFT \’06[Life, More »
