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In 2007 I made a post about Digg, who unjustly (at least in my opinion) banned my account and removed TopTut.com from the dugg pages. The funny fact is, I never made it to the front page, or actually had any impressive (or notable) amount of Diggs to be spotted for violation, or for content worth-seeing.
Already back then I noticed that getting banned from Digg puts me in a rather prestigious group; joining Digital Point, v7n, John Chow, and others. It seems like being banned from Digg is better than being a part of it, and CopyBlogger.com is only one of examples.
Digg.com’s aim is not to bring valued and interesting content to the masses. It’s not even free way to draw traffic to your blog, because:
A. StumbleUpon does a better job here, even Darren Rowse prove it.
B. Getting banned for self promotion (or just like that) from Digg is annoyingly easy.
Conclusion?
Digg is only good if you wanna read day after day (after day, after day, after day) on their front page about Ron Paul, Rudi Guiliani, or the latest, most exciting and juiciest news about the irresistible Digg Button itself or its’ almighty creator… Wow.
It’s actually shameful, but only today I got to hear how to add small avatars to the comments section in your blog. This means anyone from those who visit your blog and gets logged in the sidebar MyBlogLog widget, also will appear with his or her mini avatar if they decide to comment. This plug in is one year old already, but still, if you are interested in adding this to your blog, go here for the instructions and download.
New Free Download! Right from the oven, 10 Rss Feed Icons / Badges I just created. They are rather big and come in .png format, means they are transparent and won’t have pixelated and annoying edges. The zipped folder contains 10 badges in same size as you see in the preview above. You are free to use them
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It’s been a few days that I did not release any WordPress theme and I thought it’s about time that I will release something new. Yet again a widgetized theme, with fixed width, 2 columns, very nice and clean light wood background and a great photo by Mike McHugh from Digital Free Photo. 5th season theme was designed for Web Hosting and coded in partnership with Cheap Web Hosting and Web Site Hosting. Enjoy and please remember, if you offer it on other websites for a free download (you are allowed) give credits to toptut.com. Happy Blogging!
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Perhaps one of the sleekest layouts I have made recently, but then again, I say it about every theme I create, and then out do myself the next morning, or so I think. Anyway, this one is called PerfecTOM, named after my dear friend Tom and featuring a vector that my other very dear friend made — Kyle.
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Recently I have been oversaturating the market with my WordPress theme, but I really have inspiration! So here is my latest Photoshop masterpiece — Modern Magic. It looks impressive, but it consist from nothing but default Photoshop brushes scattered across the canvas with various layer styles. I was actually amazed myself at home good this doodle turned out.
So… This is a 2 column layout with fixed width, very exclusive dark blue colours palette. The theme is widgetized and competible with all browsers. XHTML and CSS valid.
Credits: Inspired and based on the beautiful Futura Wind wallpaper by Paul Glushak.
Enjoy!
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Have you ever asked yourself, why you have a blog for over a year now, working hard on content creation yet no one visits, no one subscribes and no one comments, while some other blog with perhaps less interesting content gets more exposure and recognition. Main reason is often not the content, but rather the presentation and design.
Professional bloggers always make sure they use a very pleasant and convenient interface. It’s really essential, if you want to win returning visitors and readers, not only not to shower them with various affiliate banners that take up more space but also use WordPress template with pleasant colours scheme. CopyBlogger.com is probably one of the best examples — it’s clean, neat, pleasant for the eyes and the adverts don’t jump right in one’s face.
Apart from that, professional bloggers are organized. They either update their blog once a day, 3 times a day or 2 times a week, but it’s always in a well planned schedule. You don’t have to be online every day, you can write posts and edit the post stamp for a future date so that the post will come online tomorrow or next week, however, it’s important to let the readers know that there is an organized updates schedule and they can return at certain times and find news.
This means having a crappy and irritating layout, as well as unorganized blog updates routine can result in loss of readers, regardless how good your content is and that is a proven fact!
