Welcome to the first Friday Focus for the month of July. This week: strong bursts of color and collapsible content. Curious combination? Read on!

It’s Friday the 13th, so let’s celebrate this eerie date with some dark designs.

Outside of content, site growth can be directly affected by when, how, and where you market your site. There are all types of forms in which this can achieved: banner advertisements, text link ads, and viral advertisements. Then of course, there are the alternative methods - the so called hit and SEO boosters, or even [...]

Running a personal blog can be great. You have total free reign on the topics, you can build relationships with readers and you can express yourself in any way you like.
Running a well read, well visited personal blog is even better. It’s no secret that the best traffic is organic traffic, from search engines.
The reason [...]

One of the first things that should be incorporated into a design is a strategy towards search engine friendliness. With the wealth of blogging platforms available, it isn’t immediately apparent what one can do to make a blog more search engine friendly. Sure, an author can lace the content with keywords and constantly [...]

Some way or another you’re gonna’ have to link some schtuff on your site — your blogroll, tags, buttons, throng of social networking icons, etc. So, what’s your style?
Me? I’m a “text link” sort of guy. They’re pretty intuitive, they imply action, and they help improve SEO. Follow a few simple steps, and your [...]