Typography 101 For Bloggers

Typography 101 For Bloggers

Do you want to get more readers to your blog?

Of course you do.

There’s thousands and thousands of tricks on how to do that. And just as many blog posts out there.

But this one is easy, but it’s also pretty much overlooked. I’m talking about some basic information design and typography 101 for bloggers.

Interested?

Accept Your Limitations And Get With It

Now, let me tell you right off the bat: I’m no art director. Actually, I’m pretty far from being good at web design myself.

I know this because I work with some very talented web designers and boy, they have talents I’ll never have.

But I’m not talking about highly creative skills here. And if I can learn basic information design, so can you.

Let me highlight this with a short story:

When I studied at the university, I took a 10 week course named Information Design. And I sucked at it.

At the very end of the course, we voted for who had produced the most beautiful information designs during the course. I don’t remember the name of the girl who won, but from what i could tell—she was talented.

Of course, some fellow douchebag thought it was a good idea to also have a vote on who had done the most terrible design.

I Want to Fire My SEO!

I Want to Fire My SEO!

Here is an example of an imaginary conversation that a “good SEO” may have with a “bad client”.  This post is not real and is meant to be humorous! although this [fake post] does address some real issues that we have encountered when dealing with clients.  If you have a bad experience with an SEO or if you are an SEO who has had clients similar to this one please feel free to share your stories in the comment box below.

About 3 months ago I hired an SEO for my company, John’s Quilting. Right now I am not even sure what in the world I was thinking when I wrote that check as I am so disappointed in the service I have received, or should I say what I haven’t received. I am not even sure where to start I am so upset. The SEO and I talked about my business site for an extended period of time and I was very clear about some things like what keywords to use, where I wanted my site to be in the search engine result pages and what the design of John’s Quilting should look like. I’m wondering if he is just deaf or chose to ignore what I asked him to do.