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Design Your Posts to Guarantee They Get Read

Of all the edges I know of, embracing amazing design is the easiest, the fastest and the one with the most assured return on investment.

Old Media, Time To Find The Missing Link

There is an inherent competitiveness within the media industry, and any given entity goes about its business as though parallel organizations don’t exist – and throwing the competition a hyperlink is tantamount to endorsement. After all, if you sell shoes, you wouldn't willingly direct customers to another shoe store, would you?

Google AdWords Number/Date Formatting Feature

Google AdWords seems to be rolling out some useful features recently, last week it was the snapshot date range comparison and today's is the option to change number, date and time formatting.

Exploitation of Passion for Profit

Buying Attention & Building Trust With content that you freely distribute you are primarily trying to build relationships with people who don't know you and have never bought from you. Since attention is limited you have to make your content accessible to gain market attention. Highbrow = Low Readership Most potential buyers can not distinguish between great information and average information, but most people...

RSS Formatting Problems

During the past week, I’ve noticed that this blog’s RSS feed has been displaying content as single blocks of unformatted text. No paragraphs, no working links, just blocks of text. I’ve had a number of emails from subscribers, too, pointing this out.

The Three Principles Of HTML Code Optimization

Just like spring cleaning a house, the html code of your web pages should get periodic cleaning as well.

Google Mobile Launches

A Threadwatch reader, Michel emailed me a little earlier to point out that mobile.google.com had apparently, and very quietly launched.

Formatting Your Ezine with TextPad

One of the questions I am most often asked is how to format ezines. I always use TextPad for these, to format articles and a multitude of other email offerings. This software *fixes* hard line breaks so that everything comes out looking neat. It's a tool I would be lost without.

Cascading Style Sheets (CSS); Formatting Lists

This article will show you how you can change the style of individual lists, all lists on your page, and all lists on your entire web site by changing just a few things on your style sheet.

Your E-zine 13 A Formatting Checklist

While sending out a text e-zine may seem like a piece of cake, there's more to it than you may think. *Good formatting* is the name of the game. Here's a handy checklist I use to make sure each of my issues is in great shape BEFORE I send it out. Please be my guest and use it for yourself!