Month: August 2005

Targeting your audience is a very important thing to think about when you’re about to write a new weblog article. I think there is need to focus on someone when writing an article. You need to make sure that there is actually someone who wants to read it. It’s the same with movies. They have a specific idea of which people should see a movie, otherwise producers and directors would not think about making it.

There a several groups you can think of when writing a new article:

Google

What you want: Visitors that come via a search engine. Continue reading Target your audience

Recently I’m pretty fascinated of the small things you can design with CSS. Just some smart rules in your stylesheet can create a nice experience for your visitors. Have a look on the left side where you see the feed links. I just can’t get enough of watching how perfectly aligned the words “Full text” are. It looks very nice. I’m really satisfied with what I’ve done there. And it’s so little work to do.

Look at the XHTML:

<ul id="feeds">
<li><a ...><strong>RSS 2.0</strong> Full text</a></li>
<li><a ...><strong>Atom</strong> Full text</a></li>
<li><a ...><strong>RSS 2.0</strong> All comments</a></li>
</ul>
Continue reading The small things

I want to share the way I bookmark things in del.icio.us with you. I’ve created a little nice bookmarklet which does a prompt for the information needed to bookmark a site in del.icio.us. That’s in my opinion the fastet way to bookmark a page and have user-specified tags and title added to it. Well, you could do a one-click solution, but where should it get the tags from?

The title of my bookmarklet is “quickpost”, because it posts a page quickly to del.icio.us.

Here is what you have to do:

1. log in to del.icio.us
2. drag this link to your link toolbar: quickpost
3. edit the location in the link properties: change USERNAME to your username
4. go to the page you want to bookmark
5. select some text which should be used as description
6. click ‘quickpost’
7. follow the instructions

The bookmarklet lets you verify and modify every information (tags, title, description). You always have to enter some tags, the title is taken from the HTML page title, the description is taken from text you’ve selected on the page. However, you don’t need to select text or enter a description. The field can be left empty. Simply click OK after every step, the page is bookmarked faster than you can say ‘bookmark’.