Category Archives: General Stuff

Sensational headlines and living up to your own hype

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Google Reader screenshot(My RSS reader on a good day)

Recently I’ve been a bit disappointed by a number of articles. They’ve promised me the world and they’ve delivered nothing short of disappointment and badly re-hashed content. But why should I have expected anything? – Because the title of these articles promised so much.
I know blog titles are written to pull in readers, the way we digest the content through twitter and RSS feeds means that titles are written to get people onto the site and add another eyeball to the all important visitor count.
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New website : www.theblondeboard.com

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OK so it’s not 100% new, it is an old site that I’ve finally got around to breathing a new lease of life into. Still it enabled me to have a play with some things – CSS3 transforms and transitions, typekit and some nice drop caps. I’ve kept it all nice and simple as it will be a mostly text based site.
Let me know what you think

(I’ll be adding a tutorial here about CSS3 transforms and transitions so add the RSS feed to your reader so you don’t miss out!)

The homepage is alive and kicking

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To be honest I’ve never written an article as a response to some others I’ve read but I’ve heard recently that the homepage is dead! –

http://www.drawar.com/articles/are-homepages-dead-or-are-we-missing-the-boat/69/

http://feedusblog.com/detail.asp?c=614967

Yep your good old index.php or whatever you use isn’t any good any more, it’s been killed by social media, ad-words and deep linking dropping people right into the belly of your website.
So I doubt you’re all going to delete your homepage and leave users with nothing at the top of your website are you? I thought not, which is exactly why the homepage is alive and kicking.
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