Source: Jasper James Photography. I’m currently working as a graphic designer and have completed schooling. The one thing I have however not been able to master is the power of the blog. I enjoy blogging, but I just can’t seem to find the proper balance to get people into reading it. What would you suggest [...]

Photo by Annie Mole I know that some of you use GoDaddy.com for your server space and to register your domain names. I want to let you know of some recent issues I had with my hosting so that you can hopefully avoid a similar fate. From 2003 until about two months ago, I’d been [...]

Disclaimer: This isn’t the sexiest, most glamorous post but it’s an important one. Most of you WordPress users are probably already familiar with performing a WordPress Database Backup but if I can save just one person out there the misery of losing all of their beloved content, then so be it! If you’ve been blogging [...]

This is a tricky situation! I think about this all the time – as I am sure that most designers do. Blogging for many of us is a creative outlet and often, our personal lives and opinions cross over into the content. The truth is, though I’ve been blogging in some form since 2001, I [...]

Lately, I’ve been getting asked a lot of blogging-related questions so today I’m going to share some insight and advice on how to get noticed and a few of the steps it takes to build a solid blog. Please feel free to leave a comment if you have more specific questions! In The Beginning: Nubbytwiglet.com, [...]

Is your avatar a less than accurate representation of your real life self? With your online representation, you get to decide which photos you’d like to upload, who you’d like to friend and which bands and movies to claim as your favorites. In a way, you get to cultivate a persona that may (or may [...]

Blogging is a constant learning process. At some point, you may be asking yourself which niche topics you should focus your energy on, what columns to feature and whether or not you should embrace advertising. It’s nearly impossible to have an answer to every situation that arises, especially since many in blogging are highly subjective. [...]

Find a way to humanize your brand, use your personality, and take your brand from good to great. -Guy Kawasaki Do you envision your blog as a brand? If you do, try embracing the concept of brand personality. To understand what brand personality is, envision your brand as if it were a person. It would [...]

I’m trying to start a blog for women my age and demographic (I’m twenty, live in Boston, am an English major, and care both about the plight of women in the Middle East and what color to paint my nails. Get what I’m saying?) I want to provide something for smart, feminist-type girls who care [...]

Question: I’m hoping to take my community and move it to an actual domain in the next few months and expand it into an online magazine, blog and general artist resource on the web. Any tips on transforming a site into something like this? The business side of it is the part that I am [...]