When you’re starting a blog, you have a lot to think about. You have to decide on the focus of your blog, what kind of media you’ll produce, and how often you’ll put out content.

You’ll think about what message you want to give your readers and how the content and design of your blog is going to do that. If you can find the right look for your website — between the layout, colors, fonts, and images — you will create the perfect place to post articles, bring in readers and advertisers, and boost your online presence.

Give your blog a makeover

Whether you’re creating a new blog or your website has had the same look for a while now, you can benefit from thinking about how to improve the look of your site. Having a strong online presence through a successful blog can lead to job opportunities and partnerships, so you want a blog that is professional, personal, and worth reading.

While creating regular content is important, the design of your website is just as necessary for its success. When you look at other blogs that bring in a lot of readers, you’ll notice that the key to having a profitable and popular blog is a combination of original content, unique and effective design, and a strong presence on social media sites.

The first step to creating a successful blog is creating a space you’ll enjoy posting in. You want to find the happy medium of professional, simple, and easy to navigate, while still adding your own personal touch.

Why it’s Important to choose the right colors

Colors have more influence than you might realize. We may not be aware of it, but colors constantly create specific negative and positive emotions, and they can affect people differently.

Yellow may be seen as bright, happy, and joyous, or it could feel sickly. A green can be calming and tranquil in some instances, but in a different setting people might associate it with greed or envy. Colors can evoke feelings of comfort, trust, femininity or masculinity, energy, or relaxation. They are a central tool in art, movies, theatre, and especially in advertising.

There’s a reason so many companies use red or yellow in their logo. Bright, inviting colors not only attract customers’ attention, but can influence their choices. In very little time, a simple logo creates an image and a reputation for the company and leaves a lasting impression on the customer.

Keeping all of this in mind when choosing a color palette for your blog can help you present your blog and yourself in the best way possible.

Drawing people to your website

You can find your audience in a number of ways. You’re more likely to bring in readers if you employ a variety of strategies. Starting with the right colors and finding your voice on the site tend to create the right conditions to attract interested readers.

From there, you can take your content to social media sites like Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr, or Pinterest and expand your reach. You might even discover that the content from your site does better on more specific, offbeat, or novel social media sites, and that you can bring in more readers who are interested in your site from less popular but more specialized social media sites and forums than the general ones like Facebook and Twitter.

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When you’re starting a blog, you have a lot to think about. You have to decide on the focus of your blog, what kind of media you’ll produce, and how often you’ll put out content.

You’ll think about what message you want to give your readers and how the content and design of your blog is going to do that. If you can find the right look for your website — between the layout, colors, fonts, and images — you will create the perfect place to post articles, bring in readers and advertisers, and boost your online presence.

Having a strong online presence through a successful blog can lead to job opportunities and partnerships, so you want a blog that is professional, personal, and worth reading.

While creating regular content is important, the design of your website is just as necessary for its success. When you look at other blogs that bring in a lot of readers, you’ll notice that the key to having a profitable and popular and they can affect people differently.

Keeping all of this in mind when choosing a color palette for your blog can help you present your blog and yourself in the best way possible.

Drawing people to your website

You can find your audience in a number of ways. You’re more likely to bring in readers if you employ a variety of strategies. Starting with the right colors and finding your voice on the site tend to create the right conditions to attract interested readers.

From there, you can take your content to social media sites like Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr, or Pinterest and expand your reach. You might even discover that the content from your site does better on more specific, offbeat, or novel social media sites, and that you can bring in more readers who are interested in your site from less popular but more specialized social media sites and forums than the general ones like Facebook and Twitter.

Not all users are adept to computer hacks that allow for a more convenient experience of using their desktops or laptops. However, they don’t have to be expert to learn these tricks.

Below are some of the easiest hacks that even technologically-challenged people can do on their computers without asking for assistance.

Speed up Aero Peek function in Windows 8.1

One of the latest features in Windows 8.1 is the Aero Peek, which shows all your open windows by hovering your cursor on the lower right part of the screen. But whenever you do this, there is a one-second delay before Aero Peek kicks in.

If you want to get rid of the delay and just make the function appear faster, here’s what you need to do:

1. Search for ‘regedit’ from the Start menu

2. Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER > Software > Microsoft > Windows > CurrentVersion > Explorer and click “Advanced”

3. Click the right mouse button on the right panel, choose New > DWORD (32-bit) Value and name it “DesktopLivePreviewHoverTime.”

4. Modify the created registry by right-clicking it. Select Decimal and type ‘1’ as its Value Data.

Voila! The Aero Peek should appear immediately after hovering your mouse to that area on your screen. This makes web browsing much easier using this feature in your Windows 8.1.

For more hacks to speed up your Windows 8.1, click here.

Make Google Chrome run faster

Google Chrome is arguably the fastest web browser. But if you want to make Chrome run even faster, here’s what you should do:

• On the address bar, enter “chrome://flags/” (without the quotation marks). You will gain access to experimental features that are not privy to users.

• Find “Maximum tiles for interest area.” By increasing the tiles, you get to increase the RAM that Chrome uses when you browse the internet.

• Set tiles from Default to 512, the maximum.

For more speed hacks for your Google Chrome, click here.

Save all your files on the cloud

It’s default for computer users to save their files in their local drives. But given the viruses, malwares, or even natural disasters that can damage your PC and wipe out all your files, it’s best to store your files that viruses can’t touch.

This can also happen due to negligence by another person or manufacturer liability, which got your important files destroyed. If this is the case, you can file a lawsuit to compensate for the damages caused. Click here to learn how you can do this.

To avoid this situation, register for an account at free file hosting service sites like Dropbox or Google Drive. This way, when your local PC gets permanently damage, you have all your files intact on the cloud. Best of all, you can then access the files when you log in to your account using any computer.

Automatically greet your Facebook friends a happy birthday

If you’re too busy to check out your Facebook account, you may miss out on personally greeting birthday celebrants online. If that’s the case, then you can set up a trigger that automatically sends out greetings to your Facebook friends celebrating their birthdays.

IFTTT (IF This Then That) is a free web services allowing registered users to create “recipes” that triggers third-party sites to perform specific actions after setting it up.

In this link, your Facebook account will send greetings to your friends who’s having their birthdays on that day based on your Google Calendar. This is a great way to not miss out on friend’s birthdays, even if the message is automated.

Aside from birthday greetings, IFTTT has other recipes that will make your online life easier. Click here to see the most useful ones.

It’s hard to guess what people want sometimes, especially when you’re writing week in and week out. But a few trends have evolved online that virtually guarantee certain methods of blogging to be successful.

Here’s a list of the three best ways to blog in a way that will appeal to readers the most.

1. Make it conversational

Social media has taught us to view the written word more like the spoken ones. A conversation on Facebook or Twitter rarely has a formal, stiff feel, and most blog writing shouldn’t, either. If you’re a real estate attorney, then maybe yes, certain aspects of your writing (mainly your professional biography) should have a formal tone and professionalism to it.

2. Make it funny or interesting

Take a look at the hottest content on Facebook, Twitter, and most of the rest of the Internet as a whole. Most of the time, funny items tend to spread the fastest.

Obscure and interesting writing seems to travel faster as well, due to its contrast from the noisy replication of mundane pieces throughout the Web. A great way to combine this approach with offline operations is to do funny or interesting pieces about funny or interesting events that happen offline.

That’s how experiential marketing began. Marketing campaigns become more popular among readers when they’re a blend of online and offline activity.

3. Teach them something

The cost of traditional education has skyrocketed, whether you’re speaking of learning at a traditional college or more specialized technical schools. There are ways to learn valuable skills and information, but too often the useful material is scattered across different sources, and it’s inconsistent.

Why not take some time to write content that explains to readers how to compare rates on loans, and how comparing mortgage rates saves them money? You’ll show them how to do it, and give them reasons for it, and educate them all at once.

The educational approach to business is helpful, effective, and it’s what many readers want.

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