How To: Determing Your Blog’s Load Time

September 24th, 2007

Web Design

This is the first of a series of posts designed to discuss ways to monitor and improve your blog’s performance. 
If you run a lower traffic blog and are looking to increase your readership, there are several things you can do to help people find your blog.   The problem is, once they’ve found your website, [...]

Everything You Need to Know About Favicons

September 18th, 2007

Web Design

Have you ever noticed those little images that appear in your web browser next to the blog’s name and wondered what they are, or maybe wondered how to go about how to add one to your blog? This post is being written in the hope of answering your questions regarding favicons.
What is a favicon? [...]

Fill Your SEO Needs for WordPress with All-in-One SEO Pack

September 17th, 2007

Blogging, SEO, Web Design

I’ve talked to several bloggers who spend a lot of time working on optimizing their websites for search engines, and often without good results. This can be attributed to several things, but often times it is the result of a lack of SEO knowledge, or to many SEO plugins that all do the same things.
If [...]

Kyle’s Cove Gets a New Logo Courtesy of Logo Design Works

September 14th, 2007

Web Design

It is with great pleasure that I announce that as of today, Kyle’s Cove now officially has a new logo, courtesy of Logo Design Works.
I’ve made no secret of the fact that I am not very talented when it comes to creating a website logo, so a couple of weeks ago I was thrilled to [...]

Is the Blog Sidebar Slowly Moving to the Blog’s Footer?

August 22nd, 2007

Blogging, Web Design

There have been many movements in the blogosphere over the past year, but one that I haven’t fully ever understood is the recent transition blog sidebars have been making to the footer of the blog.
I originally noticed this probably 6-8 months ago when a few well made WordPress themes were released and started making their [...]

The Complete Guide to SEO on WordPress

July 30th, 2007

SEO, Web Design

If you run a WordPress blog that relies on search engine traffic, it is important to put a little time and effort into improving the Search Engine Optimization of your blog. If you care about the optimization of your site, Jim Westergren has provided a well written Complete Guide to SEO for WordPress.
Unfortunately I’m [...]