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Just a head’s up for any of those into illustrative portraits. I have done a few in my years and have just not got round to adding them to this site. If you go to Portfolio and then Illustrations you …
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Again, another rant, playing Devils advocate, it’s all the same, I’m just moaning. We hear a lot (I do in any case) about using images to make your post more appealing. These are some of the top suggestions leveled at …
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Expanding my Mini-Post idea, and some inspiration from Colin at CK Marketing (aka A Geeks Journey) I have decided to add the following.
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Say goodbye to English, French, Dutch etc.
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Was really neat to be asked frankly and I jumped at the opportunity. Not intent to leave waffling comments on his blog, now I could actually get center stage. Wonderful. Nice to see your work somewhere else, where far more people are likely to read it.
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It’s hard to find a balance with content. Easy if you are writing a personal Blog or Journal, pretty much anything goes. But the moment you develop a Business Type Front End, then you have to be a bit more choosy over what you write about.
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These include basic RSS logos, Pownce, FriendFeed, Jaikur, W3C CSS and XHTML Validator chicklets.
These were initially created for myself, rather than using existing chicklets or not being able to find any at all. Mostly for my various Lifestreams, social aggregators and feeds. It’s not rocket science to make these, but if you like them, please feel free to use them for yourself. I do ask a small favour though, see below.
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So Niche is not the answer, it’s an alternative, but don’t get caught up in the general hype that finding a Niche subject will mean a long lasting blog career. It’s more likely to be a short lived career, which could be just the ticket. Depends which way you look at it and what you want out from it.
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Feeling you must Blog everyday for the sake of keeping readers is a BIG Blogging myth. As I said previously, frequency is important for Google maybe, but I really feel it’s not important for maintaining true reader loyalty. I subscribe to some top blogs that only post once a week, sometimes once a fortnight. Even then, it may not be of interest to me, but I know that once and while, a top post will be written. That’s enough for me to stay susbcribed.
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New to Tumblr, but am already hooked by it’s simplicity and coolness. I’ll save my thoughts on Tumblr for another post, but in the meantime here are some logos for you. These are linked directly to my Flickr account.
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There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.
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Nothing special here in terms of creation, but I tried looking all over the place for a Flickr ‘chicklet’, none that I could see. Works ok small, looks awful enlarged. So best not to enlarge it. :)
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Nothing much to say here really. Couldn’t find a chicklet much like I couldn’t for the Flirck logo, so just ended up doing one myself for my own site. But if you like it you are more than free to grab it and use it yourself.
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This is my favorite by far and it’s a recent photo taken during the storms of last week down the beach at Seaford near the Cuckmere Valley. Yes, I do live in a small sleepy town called Seaford, about 12 miles East of Brighton and about 8 miles West of Eastbourne.
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Then we get to the whole issue of would people actually be interesting in reading line after line about someone they don’t know?
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The first Logo Case Study I will kick off on was created for a local builder. Henceforth known as Jeremy. Someone that I know, actually lived opposite my parents so after various nagging sessions on why his white van was not adorned with a logo, he admitted that he really didn’t have anything yet to adorn to the said white van. Shocking. I will write more on the importance of Van Liveries soon based on the experiences specifically encountered with Jeremy.