ArmenThomassian.com Archive for November 2007

Below are links to articles posted in November 2007.

Turning Visitors Into Subscribers - The Contributing Factors

With the degrading value of PageRank, and the unreliable stats of Alexa, more and more people consider RSS subscribers to be the most reliable stats for measuring site reach, growth, and success.
As a result of this trend, bloggers are doing more and more, to try and lure their visitors into subscribing to their feeds. There [...]

Premium News Theme: Review*

Ever see something and say, “I wish I could do that”?
As an amateur web designer, I get that feeling all the time. Admittedly though, it’s never an envious desire; for the simple reason, I’ve been learning for less than a year, (a time restrained year at that). In fact, when I see something in web [...]

Design: First Impressions Really Count

I haven’t counted up how many times I’ve read about blog design, and whether or not it’s important, but I’m willing to take a shot at dozens.
Not wanting to waste your time, (and in case you didn’t really catch the title) I’m going to tell you where I’m going with this — your blog design [...]

My Top Ten Hand-Picked Hilarious Animal Captures

Among other things, next week I’m going to begin a series on ‘Blogging: SOS’, covering many vital elements, such as design, usability, content, relationships, and more.
However, for now I just wanted to share a few of my favourite, hand-picked animal related flickr finds.
So, to lighten up your weekend, here they are in reverse order…

Halloween - Trick Or Treat?

Catherine Wheels, bangers, pumpkins, witches, toffee covered apples…yes, that time of year has come, and pretty much gone by now. Man, we used to love this time of year. It wasn’t too cold, but, it got dark early enough for us to get up to a lot of mischief, and the available fireworks always added [...]