Alister Cameron // Blogologist

Changing the world. One blog(ger) at a time.

Tag: Design

Is it possible to keep your focus but still ‘mix it up’ on your blog?

18 July 2007 – 12:00 am

A few days ago I implemented asides on my blog. These are sometimes called “tumblelog” posts and give me a way to write short pithy posts about this or that. For me it was really important to give these posts a different look on my blog (at least on index pages), so that you the [...]

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The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Bloggers

24 April 2007 – 11:59 pm

Guest blogger Randa Clay is a designer and marketing consultant providing custom web site design, blog design and customization, and logo design. Randa can be found online at her main site, personal blog, and two other niche blogs.

7 Habits of Highly Effective People is a mega best seller and has influenced the way many people [...]

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Amazingly simple image editing and hosting with Wiredness

13 April 2007 – 3:38 pm

A mentor of mine once said, “The simple is beyond the complex.” What I would add to that is that something that has been simplified down to is core and essential components is a beautiful thing to behold. I feel that way about Wiredness, a new online image editor.

Man, this thing is so simple I [...]

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If your blog looks crap, it IS crap!

5 April 2007 – 12:51 am

I’ve been a graphic designer since high school and more recently a marketer and brand strategist. I am all over design and certainly all over designing for the web. I don’t always get it right, but I think I know what good blog design looks like, and let me tell you…
50 per cent of all [...]

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Brand. Another of my great loves.

4 April 2007 – 9:58 pm

You’d be forgiven for wondering where I’d got to. It’s been two weeks since I last blogged, which is completely ridiculous. Actually, that’s not entirely true. I’ve been working hard behind the scenes on stuff I am shortly to blog about, but the truth is I have been very busy on another love of mine: [...]

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Kuler is cooler for colour schemes

23 March 2007 – 1:05 am

Seems all the big tech companies have to have a “lab” these days. All their products come out with the obligatory “beta” label in small letters beside the product name (yawn) but if you go to the lab you get the really bleeding edge “alpha” stuff… the stuff they used to call beta. Beta being [...]

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New design, new network, new title, new underwear!

21 March 2007 – 4:12 pm

I got to bed at 5am this morning. But I put my head on my pillow knowing I had accomplished what I set out to achieve: a new site design which I can be proud to call my own… not a Wordpress theme by someone else.
I’ll quickly summarise all the new stuff that’s going on [...]

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The best source of free images for your blog posts

13 March 2007 – 10:59 am

I hope there is no debate among my readers that the value of a contextually relevant and visually compelling image in your blog post is massive. I try hard to avoid publishing a story of more than a few paragraphs without including a (hopefully) impressive-looking picture towards the top of the post. A picture does [...]

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Advanced Search Engine Optimization (SEO) for Wordpress

5 February 2007 – 12:50 pm

I spent a few hours over the weekend further optimizing my blog for the search engines. This stuff is fairly advanced, so please don’t be dismayed if you don’t follow it all. Ask your clarifying questions in the comments and I’ll answer them. Now, I don’t want to suggest that I have done all that [...]

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Salesletter techniques that suck: JavaScript date/timer hacks

27 January 2007 – 2:17 pm

I am not a fan of the long-form salesletter, although my company works with clients who love it, and for good reason: it is proven to work… it makes things sell.
And there are the standard array of tricks and techniques that people use on these salesletters… you know the kind: highlighting everywhere, endless bullet lists, [...]

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