Posted 15 September 2007, by Aaron
Guest blogging has become quite a common trend these days. Many bloggers are taking advantage of guest writers, and it seems a mutually beneficial process. The host gets to put their feet up for the day and get a nice juicy piece of content with no effort; the guest gets to raise their profile amongst [...]
Posted 12 September 2007, by Aaron
As I’m sure the infamous Swiss Toni would agree, writing a blog is like making love to a beautiful woman. First you must seduce her with a sexy headline. Once you have her attention you should start at the top, whispering irresistible promises into her ear as you slowly work your way down the body. [...]
Posted 6 September 2007, by Aaron
Have you ever tried to display HTML, PHP or JavaScript code as part of a WordPress article? It’s not fun is it? Yet there are a few steps we can take to make code render exactly how we want it to.
First of all we need to understand what WordPress is doing wrong and why it [...]
Posted 4 September 2007, by Aaron
You may have noticed a new funky little ‘Share the love’ icon appear at the bottom of every article over the last few days. Go on, hover the mouse over it and see what happens.
I’ve got absolutely no evidence that anyone has ever used the social bookmarking icons or the Share This plugin that I’ve [...]
Posted 2 September 2007, by Aaron
There’s no doubt about it, WordPress is a great blogging platform. It’s an incredibly flexible and multifunctional publishing platform and can even give a lot of fully-blown content management systems a run for their money.
That’s not to say there isn’t room for improvement. Currently the function which the_excerpt() template tag calls upon leaves a little [...]
Posted 1 September 2007, by Aaron
After a brief respite from blogging, today I return to my blogging action stations (my cheap desk from Office World) to report on how you could get a chunk of David Airey’s amazing $4,000 anniversary blog giveaway.
Despite the fact David is an Irishman living in Scotland and typically would pay for things in pounds [...]
Posted 15 August 2007, by Aaron
Over on Devlounge there is an excellent list of 15 design decisions that annoy readers. The article is written by Ronald Huereca and is based on informal feedback received at his personal blog the Reader Appreciation Project.
The 15 annoyances are:
Pop-ups (link hovers)
Turning off the timestamp on posts
Pop-up windows
Snap preview pop-ups
Positioning the subscribe box above the [...]
Posted 5 August 2007, by Aaron
You may have noticed a few design tweaks going on around here, namely how comments are being presented. I’ve tweaked the design of comments and allowed space for including the MyAvatars plugin, so I can see your faces and marvel at how beautiful we designers are.
In addition I’ve added the AJAX Edit Comments [...]
Posted 2 August 2007, by Aaron
I’ve been wanting to ask you, my readers, for some honest feedback for a while now. I decided to wait until today as it’s the site’s six-month birthday, and I figured you might go easy on me…
Actually I don’t want you to go easy on me - I want you to be honest and let [...]
Posted 1 August 2007, by Aaron
Tomorrow miLienzo.com reaches the grand old age of six months. This week will be one of reflection and realisation for me, and with your help I will make decisions for the future direction of this site.
Three months ago I set myself a series of blogging goals and targets for this six month birthday. So how [...]
Aaron Russell is a multimedia creative designer and miLienzo.com is his creative canvas.
