From the monthly archives:

March 2010

Have you scheduled a post which did not publish on the specified date?  Instead you see an error message, “Missed Schedule” and the post still sits on the scheduled list! Very unsettling — makes you second guess yourself and imagine those ‘senior moments.’  But you did put in the correct date ahead of time; it was [...]

Have you ever installed a new plugin that works fine, but soon after you find another widget starts acting up? Well, is the sky blue? After I changed the Topsy Retweet plugin to show tweets as trackback comments,  some strange names appeared on the Top Commentators list! This post talks about what you can do [...]

Now just to let you know this post has zilch to do with design. More appropriately, it has to do with the art of communication – a lost art, or so it seems. Something I have noticed over the last few years is how people’s attention spans have dwindled along with the manner in which [...]

I started my design blog in May of 2007 with more than a little trepidation. Although I read other people’s blogs regularly, both at home and at work, I was never interested in blogging myself. To be honest, I’m not a very sociable person, and the thought of coming up with a blog post on [...]

Your blog’s design should scream success, but without detracting from your great content. A good design is almost invisible — blending perfectly with your articles. Here are a few simple things you can do to showcase content and encourage visitors to read further. 1. Display Key Content Above The  Fold The term “above the fold” [...]

Recently I was cleaning up some of my posts on TBODC and I noticed one of my plain bland-looking blockquotes. Naturally, being a designer, I had to do something about this. The blockquote is a highly underrated character on a blog or website. Usually it just sits there looking bored or like a clone of [...]

As you may have noticed, I have been missing from Blogging With Success. (In fact, I am absent from the internet!) I have decided to take a break from blogging. Why? Read on! Who am I? I am Ishan Sharma, 18-year-old guy from a small town called Hamirpur in India. I use the pen name [...]