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Category: Blog Design

Pros and Cons of Using a WordPress Blog as Your Entire Business Site

February 13, 2008 – 12:50 am

I do not pretend that blogging is the answer to everything for everyone. There are many advantages to making your entire website a blog, but there are some downsides to it, too. Let’s take a look at the idea of using a blog as the whole website, both pros and cons.
Blog as Business Website: The [...]

By Michael Martine, Blog Consultant | Comments (21)

20 Home-related Blog Niche Ideas

November 16, 2007 – 6:59 am

Think all the home oriented blog niches are completely saturated? Think again! The cocooning and home-as-sanctuary trend will only continue to grow. Here are twenty home-related blog niche ideas. If you use one of these, please let me know. It would make my day! These are in no particular order, just the order in [...]

By Michael Martine, Blog Consultant | Comments (3)

Video: Can Your Blog Answer these 3 Questions in 5 Seconds?

October 27, 2007 – 7:33 pm

What is your blog about?
Who are you?
Why should we trust you?

These are 3 questions your blog should answer within the first 5 seconds of a visitor’s arrival by its design and content.

By Michael Martine, Blog Consultant | Also posted in Video | Comments (15)

Integrating Blogs and Existing Websites: Reuse Existing Site CSS

October 23, 2007 – 5:36 am

Background
I recently helped a California web design firm help their client establish and integrate WordPress blogs into their existing site, which the firm was redesigning for them. In other words, everything was changing all at once! It’s too early to reveal their identities, but I can provide a general overview of what was needed and [...]

By Michael Martine, Blog Consultant | Also posted in Client Success Stories | Comments (3)

2nd Key: Blog Design - 7 Keys to Better Blogging in 7 Days

July 31, 2007 – 5:40 am

In the second part of a seven-day, seven-part series, Michael Martine briefly discusses the second key to better blogging: Blog Design. Find out what’s so important about your blog’s design.

By Michael Martine, Blog Consultant | Comments (6)

Designing and Optimizing for Conversion

June 3, 2007 – 11:00 pm

Make your website convert visitors into buyers by having a conversion funnel with as few steps as possible. I use a site I’m working on as an example.

By Michael Martine, Blog Consultant | Comments (0)

How to Use Blogspot Image Hosting for Your Blogger Template Images

February 20, 2006 – 9:09 pm

UPDATE: This technique isn’t as necessary, anymore, since the advent of the new Blogger system.
This is quite easy to do but the results are terrific: a unique template amidst a sea of Minima.

Your image should be optimized and ready to go.
Create a post for your Blogger blog and click the upload image button.
Browse your computer’s [...]

By Michael Martine, Blog Consultant | Comments (1)

Sex appeal in web design

August 9, 2005 – 12:00 pm

Web Sites Have Sex Appeal is a brief report on a study conducted by the University of Glamorgan in the United Kingdom. What it concludes may not appear at first to have a profound effect on how you choose to design your blog, but I’ll share some other information with you later that will put [...]

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