Well ladies and gentlemen, this is my newly revamped home for my blog! I hope you all will like it and find it better than my old one! It's been completely revamped. New layout. New look. New colour scheme. The site will be updated with more and more content, which will hopefully keep you here [...]
>Running a blog like this you end up getting a fair few comments. You also end up receiving quite a few spam comments. Some of them are quite funny, the terrible English and spelling make them a laugh to read. Some of them are weird and some just suck up to you in extremely poor [...]
>Over the last couple of months, with the site gaining more momentum and the readership expanding, I have been considering the viability of placing some carefully arranged adverts on this site!So, this is your opportunity to get your company on a site that is growing at a fast pace. Why not advertise on a site [...]
>While the industry gets to grips with social media; Twitter and the bloggersphere, there's one thing that has struggled to take off.Forum's have always seemed to struggle to punch a hole in the online world of windows. I don't quite know why that is. Maybe there are a few reasons to blame? Twitter maybe? With [...]
>Twitter and blogs are playing an ever bigger role in communication within the industry. 2011 saw some of the biggest events in the industry played out on Twitter and blogs such as this one. Events like the Veka buyout of Bowater made the higher echelons of our industry sit up and take note...finally realizing that [...]
>Sometimes the best way to improve things is to ask those that use your service/product what they would like to see changed. So, for 2012, I would like your feedback on what you would like to see changed and improved on this site for 2012.It can be absolutely anything; appearance, content, layout upgrades, themes, less/more [...]
>Well, I've hopped along to my 700th post with this one! When I first started I never even considered the amount of posts going into the many hundreds. But the site has done steadily well over the near three years that this has been running - so for that I thank you!I thought this might [...]
>If you're a blogger, there are two main statistics that mean the most. Visitor numbers and page views.Visitor numbers are vital. The more visitors, the wider spread of people you're reaching out to. One level up from that are unique visitor numbers. The count of separate individuals - rather than numerous visits to your site [...]
>I know there are about 3 and a bit weeks left of the year, but I thought I might as well claim my spot and be the first to do a review of the year...from my point of view anyway!UncertaintyBefore the bad years, the industry could count on the typical buying pattern. Beginning of the [...]
>As the title of this post suggests, this is to promote the new #project200 campaign for @SophiiMaria's blog; http://www.sophiimaria.blogspot.com.After the resounding success of #project100 yesterday, which I only started after lunch time, it's time to step this up a gear and aim for the 200 page view mark. Ideally, it would be nice to reach [...]
>For those of you on Twitter, you will have noticed I was heavily promoting @SophiiMaria's webiste; http://www.sophiimaria.blogspot.com using the hashtag #project100.The whole aim of #project100 was to help Sophii's site get past the 100 page views mark before the end of the day. And thanks to you lovely people, she actually managed to get to [...]
>I've now managed to get my girlfriend @SophiiMaria into the bloggersphere properly, and today she's launched her site: http://www.sophiimaria.blogspot.comShe's a drama student at Aberystwyth University and if you like anything to do with music, drama, arts or any form of entertainment (with a little bit of analyzing) then I think you'll like her site.I'm going to [...]
>Well, that change was short lived!I've had to revert back to the original layout on my site. The new layouts did look fresh and modern, but came with too many limitations. I couldn't have any of the gadgets I have on this current layout. In fact I couldn't have any gadgets at all! Editing the [...]
>Right, time to explain what is going on with my site.As always, I like to give the look of my site a tweak now and then, this is rather a large one. In fact it's probably the biggest one I've done. I had the rainy mountain background and layout for a while, so I though [...]
>I would like to introduce to you all to another blog by a friend of mine. Her name is Jessica and her passion is writing and baking, so she's done the most logical thing, and started a blog, about baking.So if cakes, buns or food in general interests you (I know I love my food), [...]
>I've been toying with the idea of putting adverts on my site for a while now. The traffic to my site has been steadily building over the last few months, and with me being lucky enough to be writing in a couple of magazines now, I would like to think that traffic will improve further [...]
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