Nile F. posted an article on Blondish.net - Nov 30, 2009, 7:19 pm
Yes, I finally got my down to pixelling again. One of my visitors sent me an email asking if I could make Robot smilies. Although I could charge for them, I do these for free and like to give them out...
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Nile F. posted an article on Blondish.net - Nov 28, 2009, 3:58 am
This is no longer the age of sneaking around and then commenting when convenient. This is called lurking. In social media, lurking is not conducive for anyone. No trust can be built between readers an...
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Nile F. posted an article on Blondish.net - Nov 25, 2009, 12:23 am
In the past, I have been known to say 800
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Nile F. posted an article on Blondish.net - Nov 23, 2009, 9:03 pm
Running a site takes time and effort. However, it is not hard to do. By simply applying some of the following to your site, you might become a better website host/ hostess as well as a blogger. These ...
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Nile F. posted an article on Blondish.net - Nov 23, 2009, 1:32 am
Here are some things I have found to work the past few years to become better as a freelance web designer. 1. Connect with others in your niche. You can learn and teach. Also, you never know when a c...
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Nile F. posted an article on Blondish.net - Nov 21, 2009, 1:57 am
Direct linking also known as hotlinking where a person uses the image source link on their site instead of hosting it on their own space, is a very common problem. Direct link steals not just the fact...
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Nile F. posted an article on Blondish.net - Nov 20, 2009, 12:12 am
There are people who I talk to a lot from my local area that ask me this question…. well a variation. I have seen some blog posts out there that blog about this, but issue their affiliate links ...
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Nile F. posted an article on Blondish.net - Nov 18, 2009, 11:14 pm
This is a Sponsored Post written by me on behalf of Sponsored Tweets. All opinions are 100% mine. I have blogged about get paid to tweet programs and my recommendations, but I probably should blog ab...
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Nile F. posted an article on Blondish.net - Nov 17, 2009, 10:51 pm
I am sure that the title of my blog alone makes you wonder if I went off the deep end as it might not make sense. You would think someone with a lot of comments might be a success. That is not always...
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Nile F. posted an article on Blondish.net - Nov 17, 2009, 2:24 pm
This is usually a tricky question and really depends on when your visitors visit your site. Some people might say the best time is during the height of traffic. My advice is to do it before the heigh...
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Nile F. posted an article on Blondish.net - Nov 15, 2009, 2:57 pm
For a while I wanted to make a WordPress related website dedicated some to helping, but mostly the fans. There are quite a few sites out there that are WordPress related, but nothing to say there were...
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Nile F. posted an article on Blondish.net - Nov 15, 2009, 3:34 am
I have been noticing a trend of people finding it their personal right to smear someone who they do not know anything other than the tweets or certain people. In fact, recently, an incident mentioning...
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Nile F. posted an article on Blondish.net - Nov 13, 2009, 11:58 am
What is a 404 page? It is a page that tells your visitors when they go to a specific page that it no longer exists. Using a custom page for this is a benefit, especially to search engines like Google...
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Nile F. posted an article on Blondish.net - Nov 12, 2009, 3:59 pm
For those who are seeking a lot of traffic, whether because of selling a product or just to push your content, advertising might come to mind. These days there are text links, full page advertisements...
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Nile F. posted an article on Blondish.net - Nov 11, 2009, 6:05 pm
A lot of times, I am sure most bloggers would love to connect more with their readers. They offer email subscriptions to their RSS feed or newsletters. Or they have plugins on their WordPress blogs li...
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Nile F. posted an article on Blondish.net - Nov 10, 2009, 10:38 pm
There are a lot of site owners reading up on social media techniques and trying to implement them. Whether popular, old, or new of a site, social media techniques have constantly been revamped and rei...
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Nile F. posted an article on Blondish.net - Nov 10, 2009, 3:08 am
Now, a lot of people who blog keep hearing about SEO. What is SEO? Well, basically SEO is an acronym for Search Engine Optimization. A lot of people like to write about it and here are some things I ...
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Nile F. posted an article on Blondish.net - Nov 8, 2009, 10:53 pm
Blog commenting as strange as it sounds has become somewhat of a science. In the past few years alone there have been trends that still exist in order to help bloggers obtain the comments they want. I...
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Nile F. posted an article on Blondish.net - Nov 8, 2009, 4:39 pm
If you freelance, you may have done the job bidding sites. For example, if you list that you work $20 per hour, then do not bid for a job any less what you are worth. However, in the same breath, do n...
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Nile F. posted an article on Blondish.net - Nov 8, 2009, 4:06 am
As a web and graphic designer, there are a few options to choose in creating a portfolio, a tangible printed version, and an online version. A tangible version, like a printed copy would include quali...
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Nile F. posted an article on Blondish.net - Nov 7, 2009, 8:18 pm
Sitemaps are important because they allow the search engines like Google and Yahoo! to index your entire site and leave it available for other internet users to find. A sitemap is defined: A site map...
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Nile F. posted an article on Blondish.net - Nov 7, 2009, 2:46 am
Having a blog is a wonderful tool. It opens the possibility for the writer to give a piece of their mind to the world. However, for those starting out and not knowing what to do, it can be frustrating...
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Nile F. posted an article on Blondish.net - Nov 6, 2009, 11:55 pm
Google Webmaster Tools is a way for webmasters to get their site properly web index by Google. There are also other features that this tool offers that make this a hub for any webmaster. Getting a si...
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Nile F. posted an article on Blondish.net - Nov 5, 2009, 2:36 am
Originality is what most people look for in a site, along with a way to maneuver around easily. Let us be real, as most people will be lost without a way to surf any website. One way to help, is to fo...
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Nile F. posted an article on Blondish.net - Nov 5, 2009, 12:12 am
National Blog Posting Month or affectionally known as NaBloPoMo is an event that happens during November each year – the same time as NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month.) No, you do not hav...
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Nile F. posted an article on Blondish.net - Nov 3, 2009, 9:30 pm
Anyone can make a site. No matter how much was invested in the site (ex. time, or money), and how good it looks or even how it is structured, alone it will not build the key traffic with internal and ...
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Nile F. posted an article on Blondish.net - Nov 2, 2009, 11:06 pm
Are splash pages really necessary? Well, first off, in order to make a valid case, what is a splash page? A splash page is a website’s entrance page. The splash page contains words or images to ...
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Nile F. posted an article on Blondish.net - Nov 1, 2009, 1:18 am
National Novel Writing Month or NaNoWriMo is around once again. This is the third year I have participated. Every November thousands of people take up a challenge to write a 50,000 word novel before t...
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Nile F. posted an article on Blondish.net - Oct 30, 2009, 9:45 pm
The “web elite snobbery” is really a loose term. When I mean web elite, I mean the following: 1. Those who have high standards when viewing websites and eagerly badmouth those who do not ...
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Nile F. posted an article on Blondish.net - Oct 29, 2009, 4:28 pm
Recently Facebook rolled out their new feeds, yep, feeds as in more than 1. One is the Live Feed which is somewhat like the old stream except you are informed of your friends following others and what...
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Nile F. posted an article on Blondish.net - Oct 29, 2009, 3:44 am
... doing the copy and paste when I finally converted my site. In fact, I have 352 posts versus 253 pages – whoa strange, and a lot more content ... recommend using your pages for? Any suggesti...
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Nile F. posted an article on Blondish.net - Oct 28, 2009, 1:59 am
In the past decade, there has been an increasing number of FTP clients available for free or purchase. For those who do not know was FTP is, it stands for File Transfer Protocol. It allows you to uplo...
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Nile F. posted an article on Blondish.net - Oct 26, 2009, 11:11 pm
October 26, 2009 signifies the official closing of Geocities. All sites will be gone. In the past few months several online places have tried hard to gather and preserve sites that have been abandoned...
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Nile F. posted an article on Blondish.net - Oct 25, 2009, 9:46 pm
Social bookmarking has been a great tool for webmasters and bloggers to push their content to the masses. There are sites that obviously weigh in on their power to help attract traffic while others ar...
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Nile F. posted an article on Blondish.net - Oct 23, 2009, 9:42 pm
In SmashApps.com, they published a post Search Engine Traffic vs Social Media Traffic? Which is Better? listing pros and cons, but it was leaning more thoward social media. For one, Social Media is n...
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Nile F. posted an article on Blondish.net - Oct 21, 2009, 6:01 pm
Email Chat Contact Button Sidebar is a plugin designed by the creators of ContactMeButton.com with the purpose of extending more ways your visitors can contact you. The plugin allows your readers to c...
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Nile F. posted an article on Blondish.net - Oct 20, 2009, 3:50 am
Paid to tweet or sponsored tweets have been something that has popped up majorly in the past year, especially since Twitter has really exploded onto the mainstream. Basically paid to tweet is as it sa...
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Nile F. posted an article on Blondish.net - Oct 19, 2009, 4:12 pm
Comment spam is definitely something a lot of bloggers encounter, no matter how few or many people visit. Some are geniune spammers, some are newbies who do not know any better, and some are just plai...
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Nile F. posted an article on Blondish.net - Oct 16, 2009, 4:27 pm
I think as the debate on using tables or not, the use of iframes has been second to that. Inline frames, also known as iframes as described by Wikipedia: An inline frame places another HTML document...
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Nile F. posted an article on Blondish.net - Oct 14, 2009, 5:14 pm
The Fan History wiki has been trying hard to preserve Yahoo! Geocities since it is due to close before the end of October 2009. Although Fan History is covering sites that are within the fandom realm,...
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Nile F. posted an article on Blondish.net - Oct 13, 2009, 1:09 am
This is the first week I am introducing a WordPress blog showcase to the site. I will choose 8 sites each week in that are tied together somehow whether by the blogger’s profession, the layout d...
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Nile F. posted an article on Blondish.net - Oct 11, 2009, 9:39 pm
I had been noticing some of the things streaming around twitter involving suing for tweeting something and such. In fact Chris Voss (on Twitter) has a video blog called Rude Tweets or Blogging Can Get...
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Nile F. posted an article on Blondish.net - Oct 10, 2009, 7:38 pm
WP-FollowFriday for Twitter is a plugin that allows you to select the people you would like to recommend for #FollowFriday. However, when setting this up, I ran into some issues. It does not ask for ...
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Nile F. posted an article on Blondish.net - Oct 9, 2009, 11:40 pm
The art of vexeling and vectoring are interesting as each layer created goes toward the whole look of an image. It takes careful attention to the layering, and certain techniques to make an image that...
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Nile F. posted an article on Blondish.net - Oct 9, 2009, 12:58 am
No matter how many ridiculous lists there are on how to either be better at social media or how to commit social media suicide, or something similar. Yep, I am on a soapbox right now. Remember, social...
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Nile F. posted an article on Blondish.net - Oct 8, 2009, 2:07 pm
Recently Weblog Tools Collection published an article called Pinging Your Own Blog Posts? Good or Bad? Basically, it is arguing the side that pinging your own blog is bad. According to Wikipedia: A ...
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Nile F. posted an article on Blondish.net - Oct 7, 2009, 12:07 am
On October 5, 2009, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) published FTC Publishes Final Guides Governing Endorsements, Testimonials – Changes Affect Testimonial Advertisements, Bloggers, Celebrity ...
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