Open with your best joke. It’s a fundamental piece of advice I give my students as a comedy coach. Virtually all stand-up comics adhere to this philosophy. I implore you to watch one perform their act and see how often it’s true. The funniest joke of their set will likely be their first one.…

The time for you to think seriously about the future of your blog is upon you. The Internet is accelerating so quickly that if you don’t upgrade and improve your content and ap…

Starting a blog is free. Well… almost free. Assuming you have a self-hosted blog, you’ll have to pay for the cost of domain registration and hosting. Both of those are really…

All of us have written great articles at some point in time, but have not gotten the expected results from it. So what else can we do? If you happen to notice one of your old posts that di…

Social media is new, so there is much to learn from it. It’s taken the world by surprise, it’s toppled governments, and it’s connected millions of people aroun…

This is the 4th and final part of the series on releasing your inner writer. If you haven’t yet read the previous articles, here are the links to part 1, part 2, and part 3. A grea…

Information Gathering and Analysis The initial step to undertake in building a successful website is to gather the basic and essential information. There are several things tha…

This is part 3 of the series on releasing your inner writer. If you haven’t yet read the previous articles, here are the links to part 1 and part 2. We’ve already covered severa…

Most bloggers, or rather, most people are plagued with a seeming lack of adequate time to accomplish all the tasks with which they are bombarded.  Of course, the ideal and most prac…

This article is the second part of a series about getting inspired to write. You can find part 1 by clicking on this link here. Writing is an art form. And like any artist, we should alw…

The goal of this article is to introduce you to the most basic elements of design. Whether you’re styling your blog, selecting a graphic illustration for an article, workin…

I’ve been blogging for eight years but very rarely for public consumption. It’s only been in the last six months that I’ve opened up my blog to the public. My husband and I were both un…

As a web developer, I despise Internet Explorer in all of its forms. I hate version 6. I hate version 7. I hate version 8. And I even hate version 9. In fact, if you are reading this artic…

Things are changing very fast in the world of search engine optimization. Search engines are becoming smarter and smarter each day. They’ve come far from meta tags, spammy…

Throughout the history of this blog, I’ve often emphasized that the design of a blog or website is one of the most important factor in drawing in potential readers. People te…

Help! Help! Some very pale creepy character is trying to feed off of me. The offense goes by the name of plagiarism. I’m not all that easily offended, but stealing my story is right up…