Waxing UnLyrical

JUNE 27, 2011

By that, I mean, is the design clean, or is it cluttered with too many widgets, add-ons, etc.? When I was working on getting my own site up, Kim Wells , Robin Lane and Gail Nelson were all people I trusted, and whose feedback I invited… even before the site went up, and I was working on the content. Does it look neat?

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Waxing UnLyrical

MARCH 25, 2011

The header, widgets and so on made it look very cluttered. What other tips do you have on optimizing content for mobile? I’d looked at WUL a few times on my BlackBerry (when I had one) and then on my iPhone, and all the things people say about non-mobile-optimized blogs were true. The font was tiny. It was unreadable.

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Waxing UnLyrical

MARCH 16, 2011

It’s a little bit different from Waxing UnLyrical, in that it has a sidebar either side of the main content area, and so many configuration options that my head is spinning. I set up a basic blogroll, a Twitter widget, a short “About&# page as well as a “© and Stuff&# page.

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Waxing UnLyrical

OCTOBER 14, 2010

Teach your readers to take ownership of content. Copyblogger used this book as a guide to making boring content sexy. He speculates that Gap’s new logo was not created by designers, but by “a suite full of suits&# who only focus on operations, technicalities, and pushing content.

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Waxing UnLyrical

DECEMBER 21, 2010

so that they’re alerted to those posts, using hashtags to call out and index conversations, a widget that you can add to your blog, posting to multiple “Amplogs&# (the sites you set up on Amplify, though as of now, you can’t do this at one go), and more. It really is a community. Joe Reply Rate Up div.livefyre-comment).removeClass(livefyre-hidden)"

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