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Category: Websites and Blogging

This category will contain any blogging-related posts, that includes platforms such as WordPress and Blogger.

10 Strategies for Getting More Blog Comments

When you create a blog, there are certain strategies for getting more blog comments that you can adopt. Blogs are meant to be a social outlet for those to express their opinions in a free and easy manner. Having a lot of comments on your blog can be one way to determine the success of your blog.

Studies have shown that the majority of online users are lurkers (observe or read without contributing), with less than 5% actively contributing. Most readers leave a blog without contributing in any way or leaving comment. If you would like to have more comments on your blog, there are ways of encouraging more activity.

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March 14, 2011
How to Test Your Web Site on a Smaller Browser Window

Many new computers and laptops sold today include a widescreen monitor with a nice high resolution. For many applications, such as games and movies, having a large widescreen monitor makes the experience much better. Movies were meant for widescreen, and games, well they always look better in a higher resolution.

The one aspect where the widescreen monitors may be more of a pain is in web development. The reason is simple: creating a web site that displays great on many monitor resolutions is not easy. The web site can look good at one resolution and monitor size, but not on another. If you do have a widescreen monitor you can easily test your site with various resolutions with a free application.

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March 11, 2011
Becoming A Successful Blogger Is All About Time

If you are thinking about becoming a successful blogger, then you would first need to realize that it doesn’t happen overnight. It takes many years of hard work to achieve success has a blogger.

A lot of people seem to think that starting up a blog is easy and it immediately means they are going to see a steady increase of traffic appearing within weeks when this is just not going to happen (if you are doing things legitimately). A lot of start ups will not see increase in traffic and then give up all hope, after all what is the point in spending hours creating great content that no one is reading right? Have patience, the visits will come and the interaction will arrive so here are a few tips on becoming a successful blogger.

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February 28, 2011
Create an Attractive Web 2.0 Design Website

The purpose of Web 2.0 design is to focus on the user, and to step up the level of interactivity. Instead of limiting the user to simply viewing the content you have put on your page, a Web 2.0 design will facilitate dialog & user created content. Some examples of Web 2.0 are blogs, mashups, social networking sites and video sharing sites. In this article we will discuss the different characteristics of a Web 2.0 design.

The first thing to keep in mind when designing, is less is more. Removing unnecessary components will not only make your website load faster, it will direct your users attention to the important parts. It is said that you only have 3.5 seconds to capture and retain the viewers attention, and with Web 2.0, it won’t be hard to do.

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February 22, 2011
Make Your Site Load Photos as Fast as it Should

Many people that have taken on the task of putting up a website do not realize that visitors are not always very patient, especially when it comes to page loading. If the site is running slowly, people who come across it are likely to become frustrated and leave, with rare revisits in the future. If you want your photography to be exposed to as many individuals as possible, it is important to put in the work to make sure everything loads as fast as you can manage. But how can this be achieved? What does a designer need to do have a fast loading photography website? The below tips should be consulted.

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February 16, 2011
Don’t Keep Your Visitors Waiting: Monitor Your Blog’s Performance

I am always concerned with the performance of my blog to the point where I try to test the performance on at least a weekly basis. My quest to make my blog perform at its best led me to use CloudFlare to cache and send my static content.

There could be any number of reasons why performance for a blog, or website, decreases and many times you may be able to find the problem and fix it. Other times, such as the decrease in performance on your host’s servers, are out of your control besides alerting your host. In this post I’ll explain the tests I perform to test out the performance of my blog so I can find where my blog performance can be tweaked.

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February 11, 2011
Be Part of the Discussion: Use Good Commenting Etiquette

Over the past few weeks I have been removing more of the spammy-type of comments from Technically Easy. I have decided to become more stringent with the type of comments that I allow on this blog.

The comments that add to the discussion of the post’s topic are not deleted, nor are comments that don’t agree with my opinion. I welcome a good healthy discussion, but won’t accept comments that are created to try and generate a backlink. I decided to outline what I consider my commenting etiquette, which probably won’t differ much from your own idea of a good comment.

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January 28, 2011
Increase Your Web Site Performance with CloudFlare

I recently experienced some performance issues on this blog and changed the template to more of a basic look and feel. By doing so I reduced the number of requests for all the pages on my blog, as well as the number of bytes that was transferred. In an effort to increase the performance even further, I signed up with an online free service.

While I was on Twitter several months ago I noticed a tweet from Michael Aulia from Craving Tech regarding a service he just started using called CloudFlare. This site talks about increasing a web site’s performance while also making the site safer. I have been using their service over the past few months, and so far I have been impressed.

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January 21, 2011