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Authoring Blogs with Microsoft Word is Asking for Trouble
Did you create a document today? ContentRobot bets you wrote it using Microsoft Word. This easy-to-use, ubiquitous software, allows business people to compose their thoughts and produce fairly decent looking documents, complete with formatting (think bullets and bolding) and pretty pictures. It’s so simple to cut and paste your document into your blog software, but … Read More
Tips & Tricks to Improve Blog Accessibility
In the final post of our Blog Accessibility Series, ContentRobot provides some tips to helping your design your blog for a wider audience. 1. Use Relative Font Sizes Express font sizes in percentages or ems, rather than absolute font sizes expressed in points or pixels. The allows users to make the text larger or smaller … Read More
Design Your Blog to Be More Accessible to a Wider Audience
The World Web Web Consortium has published guidelines to help designers make their sites more accessible. ContentRobot has summarized some key points below. Make multimedia content (images, video, and audio) more accessible to a wide audience. This can be done using text equivalents (often rendered with Alt tags within HTML documents). Text can be rendered … Read More
Lead Alternative Wants a ContentRobot Blog-Powered Website
ContentRobot is pleased to welcome our newest client, Lead Alternative. ContentRobot, along with Lead Alternative, will develop a logo and custom designed blog-powered website, called Debt Relief Companies. The blog-powered website will connect people with money challenges who seek some help with debt management and debt settlements. Site owner, Scott Bearden, has vast experience with … Read More
Is Your Blog Accessible to People With Disabilities?
Blog designers should consider ways to make Web content more available to all users, and help people find information more quickly. Consider that many users may be operating in contexts very different from your own. Have you thought about these issues while designing your blog? Web Surfing Devices Websites can be viewed from a desktop … Read More
Is Your Blog Interesting? Here Are Some Writing Tips to Make it So
To write an interesting blog (or anything of value) you must be able to go beyond regurgitating what others have reported and be curious enough to find the real story. How can you do that? Ask questions like these. How Does it Really Work? – Test products (and assumptions) to find out what works and … Read More
5 Things You Can Do to Get People to Link to Your Blog
Linkbait: verb: describe a variety of practices that have the purpose of generating links to your site. Want to get people to link to your site? Here are five linkbaiting techniques to consider: Tools – offer useful, fun or cool tools that webmasters can use on their blog. Don’t forget to point them back to … Read More