Custom Templates vs Template Providers

I’m very sure all of you know what are templates or sometimes refer to as skins or the normal term; design. With that said, how many of you have seen websites with the same design used? Plagiarism or copycat? Well, though that might be true but some are free or commercial templates sold by template providers. One of the more known providers is TemplateMonster.

Housing more than a thousand templates selling at an average price and a unique price. Difference?

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Niche Market

When a niche isn’t a niche anymore than what do you do? When you thought what was a niche market, catches up with you and make you obsolete, what do you do? Do you start a new niche? Or continue to work on your niche but offer something more than the competition? I’m not sure … Read more

Comments VS Shoutbox

I’ve noticed that I’ve implemented both without really thinking of what works best for my website. Since there’s going to be a huge revamp up by next year, I suppose it’s fair to blog about it now and gain some views on this. I’ll try talking about the differences of each before coming to my own conclusion on what might work for me.

A comments system is already integrated into the MovableType(MT) publishing engine. However, since I started blogging back in LICT which was probably around year 2002, I remember there wasn’t a single comment. Might’ve been the content was purely boring and might’ve been the website didn’t have enough traffic. Then when I redesigned it, I also implemented a shoutbox which was made by my friend Snecx. Soon I started getting feedback from people or even spammers and haters or trolls as some might refer.

So, why are visitors leaving feedback on the shoutbox and rarely using the comment system of the blog? Let’s analyze everything we can about the shoutbox.

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WWW or just .COM

Was what I’ve just learned about from the article I read HERE. Of course a website address is www.your-domain.com but did you realize that you can sometimes also access your website via your-domain.com. Still not surprised? Well, I’ve come across some Malaysian websites that disallow the use of your-domain.com and one such example belongs to … Read more

The Forgotten

Beginning before even think of adapting to web standards never did occur to me. I’m not sure about the rest of you but the article written by Gex Lemon at Juicy Studio, HERE has reminded me of the main practice in CSS. His article titled Div Mania was an explanatory on how most people today … Read more

The Perfect Blog Layout

Isn’t conceived and given birth in an overnight effort. Since blogs emerged and are now being taken seriously by corporate bodies, blog designing is evolving with the need of standards compliancy and functional purpose. It’s maturing quicker than we think as more corporate blogs arise and adding to that, some companies are even hiring writers … Read more

Broken Web Design

Was what the article I read HERE at Digital Web Magazine was discussing. It was a very deep and interesting view on how websites have evolved into its worst form. All the factors and relations that the author speak of are quite rational though there’s one or two things that I might have my own … Read more

Blog Networks

Are appearing around the Internet quite fast. The ones I’ve come by so far are 9rules, Weblog Empire and the latest; Indie Blog Network. Now, all of them are respectable in their own manner of handling the network and planning on garnering traffic. What does a network site do? Well, they don’t hook you up … Read more

Wanna Start A Real Blog?

Then take some time off whatever you’re doing and read up The Blogger’s Primer at Sitepoint. It’s informative and tells of what an actual blog really is. Unlike mine that’s based more on my life. :P Oh well, a method of communicating with my parents as I don’t really email often. Anyway, this website will … Read more

What Is A Blog?

Definition of Blog from Google: A blog is basically a journal that is available on the web. The activity of updating a blog is “blogging” and someone who keeps a blog is a “blogger.” Blogs are typically updated daily using software that allows people with little or no technical background to update and maintain the … Read more