Optimize Your Blog’s Sidebar

RSpears @ May 31, 2010 # No Comment Yet

Image by getawayplans The entire purpose of a sidebar in a blog is to have a small showcase for quick information about you, your brand and the services. It provides your site visitors additional functionality and easy access to your content within one pane (or two, based on your chosen blog layout) without having to move [...]

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Planning Your Podcast: Branding

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Image by betsyweber After you’ve started planning and laying out your podcast‘s particulars like its target audience, general theme and outline you’d follow every episode, the most important thing to do next is to create an identity for it. Establishing one will absolutely set it apart from other podcasts out there and will be crucial for [...]

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Google Goggles V1.1 Translates

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Google through its battalions of engineers and application developers have been in fervent development of its many search features. The most recent of which was a redesign of its homepage and the addition of a fully functioning navigation and results filtering side panel. Off the heels of this announcement, the search engine giant also revealed [...]

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Liven Up Your Podcast With Music

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Image by mixtape218 Adding music and sound effects to your podcast offers a variety of benefits. They set up the overall audio theme, signal the start and end of the show and introduce segments. Sometimes they can even be used to prompt the introduction of each individual host or to punctuate a point within a discussion. [...]

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Google Search Gets A Facelift

RSpears @ May 6, 2010 # One Comment

Google has given its search homepage and results page a subtle but visually appealing redesign and even throws in a nifty new feature. This, as announced by Marissa Mayer, Google’s VP Search Products & User Experience, on the search engine’s blog. Right on the landing page, you’ll notice that the Google logo has received a [...]

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