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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
One of the cool things about blogging is the ability to include photos within posts. While blog editors are really not that great at image placement and editing, its great when you can put some visual interest into your entries. Then how do we find inexpensive, but compelling stock photos? Here are some sites that […]
Are you commenting on other blogs? It can be a great way to bring traffic to your own blog, but you shouldn't comment for commenting sake. Know that what you say reflects positively or negatively on your own blogs. Here are 3 tips to follow when adding your two cents: Write or ask something intelligent […]
Who is Reading Your Blog? The answer, unfortunately, is not everyone. However, you should think about exactly who you'd like to read your blog and how you might appeal to them. To build a targeted readship that makes sense for your blog, answer any and all of these types of questions: How old are they? […]