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8-Steps to a Blog Design that Works for You

May 19th, 2008 by bill.hutchison · No Comments

I’ve been considering a redesign over at my Home Improvement Blog - Renovate Australia for a while now. I am planning to use these 8 steps to redesign my blog.

What’s the goal of your blog? Does your design serve that goal?
Consider a thin header.
Make your About page useful.
Keep your sidebar functional.
If you have ads, keep [...]

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Plan Your Special Event Web-Sites for Long Term Gain

April 4th, 2008 by bill.hutchison · No Comments

Three weeks after creating the Voice for the Voiceless web-site I am regretting not putting more forward planning into the web-site development process (you can read about the creation of the site at Using Wordpress for a Basic Web Site).
Although the web-site performed well in the lead up to the Voice in the Dark concert [...]

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Using Wordpress for a Basic Web Site

March 20th, 2008 by bill.hutchison · 2 Comments

Three weeks ago I was asked to set-up a Web-Site for Voice for the Voiceless in Australia. The mandate for Voice for the Voiceless’s is to raise awareness of gender based injustice issues. It also aims to focus people with 30 days of prayer though a 30 days of prayer for the voiceless booklet, which [...]

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Wordpress Privacy Policy Plugin

March 6th, 2008 by bill.hutchison · No Comments

Recent changes to AdSense Terms and Conditions have made it a requirement that all sites that display AdSense must have a privacy policy.
I was getting a bit overwhelmed at the thought of having to come up with a privacy policy for each of the web-sites that I run, but Eric Giguere has made it easy [...]

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Hasbro and Mattel should Buy Scabulous

January 20th, 2008 by bill.hutchison · 2 Comments

Scrabulous is one of the most popular Facebook Apps out there, with a reported 594,924 daily players. Hasbro and Mattel are trying to get Scrabulous shutdown, claiming (quite possibly correctly) that it violates their copyright on the game as it is very closely based on the game Scrabble
This could be an extremely short sighted decision. [...]

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