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3 Best Blogging Practices for Beginners.

Thinking of starting a blog? Feeling anxious or overwhelmed with the blog you have already started? While that’s certainly understandable for any first time venture, you just need to take a deep breath and clear any misconceptions you may have about blogging.  While it certainly can be time consuming you should have fun while you do it!

So without further adieu, here are the three best blogging practices for beginners:

1. Stay active. You always want to be publishing new content.  New content means new links going in and new links going out.  Blogs give your website the opportunity to be more active. And just a little SEO tip - Google loves blogs because they are active!

2. Leverage Side Bars. In your blog sidebars you can put a twitter feed, poll, blog subscription, or even video. This adds to the dynamic of your blog and further connects potential customers and your readers to your other platforms.

3. Don’t ignore comments! And don’t just let the comments pile up. Just as your readers are giving feedback, you should be responsive as well! When you give readers a say and respond back, you’re helping to give interest to the blog. When someone leaves a comment, comment back on a first name basis. This makes the reader feel more welcomed. Worried about negative comments? Don’t be! Negative comments are a great problem solving tool.

Just like anything else, the more you do it, the more comfortable you become.  This will certainly be true of your blogging efforts. Don’t give up if you don’t immediately see the results you’re looking for.  Just stay active and respond to any feedback and you’ll be a pro in no time!

Tags: blogging, Quick Tips, Social Media

Creating a Facebook Like Button for Paginated Content in Drupal

This tutorial will show you how to add a Facebook Like button to paginated content in Drupal.

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6 Essential Web Design Tools

As designers and developers, we need to make the most of our time to ensure great results for client projects. Luckily, there are many essential time-saving and quality control tools at our finger-tips. Below is a survey of some of the programs, techniques, and resources we use every day at Brunello Creative.

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Tags: Quick Tips, Tools, Web Design

Reaching Greater Heights with jQuery: A Safari Height Bug Fix

Recently I was working on developing a site from a great design making use of a lot of CSS3 for one of our clients here at Brunello and hit a bit of a cross browser bug that had me stumped.

I was working with a centrally aligned main column that needed to have the illusion of fading from dark to light as you scroll down the page and also needed a shadow on either side of the column from the top to bottom.

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Tags: bugs, Chrome, css, height, jQuery, Safari

Get More Bang Out of 140 Characters

Twitter has become a front-runner in the social media scene within the past couple years. It’s popularity has soared to over 100 million users as of June 2010, and is not only one of the most influential networking tools on the web, but used widely for everything from staying in-touch with friends and family — to getting the latest news on any content you desire. Here are some tips and tricks to Tweet like a pro.

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Tags: Social Media, Twitter