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Blog Exercises: Ingredients of a Well-Designed Site

August 16, 2017 – 4:56 am

I was asked by a student in my WordPress class recently what defined a “professional blog,” one that met all the criteria for a well-designed, well-formed site that met web standards. What a marvelous question! We brainstormed all the elements that make up a web standard site, and mixed in personal preferences of the students […]

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Blog Exercises: How Many Words in a Link?

March 28, 2013 – 4:35 am

How many words should you put into a link? Is there a rule? There isn’t a rule but there are good standards and practices. These state that two words should be the minimum, and only enough words to compel someone to click through to the linked source. The words must also imply the link’s destination […]

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Inspired by Glenda Watson Hyatt at SOBCon09

May 6, 2009 – 6:54 am

I just published “Glenda Watson Hyatt: Is Your Blog Disabled?” on the Blog Herald. I summarized the outstanding presentation the famous Left Thumb Blogger, Glenda Watson Hyatt of the Do It Myself Blog, gave at Successful and Outstanding Bloggers Conference (SOBCon) this past weekend. Glenda is a major fan and proponent of WordPress, and I […]

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