Community Chat: Time for a Blogsessive Redesign
Hello friends and readers of Blogsessive! Today I have an announcement to make and with this occasion, launch a debate with you, Blogsessive’s community.
Blogsessive has been around for a while, sometimes more active, sometimes less active, but right now it’s time for a major change. And this change will start off with a redesign of the blog.
Since I’ve always treasured the voice of my community, I’m launching an open debate (this post will remain sticky) on this step in Blogsessive’s existence with a few questions:
- What do you like and dislike most about the current design?
- What would you want to see implemented in the future design?
- Are there any elements/functionalities that you find hard to access right now?
Aside from these questions, feel free and encourage to express your opinions as feedback is always kindly appreciated. Also, another change of policy is to open up Blogsessive to more guest post articles. It is an excellent way to help Blogsessive’s readers get to know each other better and I am 100% positive that everyone has a wonderful point of view, experience and tips to share with us all. So, go ahead and write a wonderful guest post and contact me.
Lets talk
Looking forward to reading your comments and setting the base of Blogsessive’s future together!
Bold: A CV/Resume Template for Smart Professionals
Hey guys, today I’m proud to announce that through my design studio – QBKL Media – I’ve released Bold, a smart, minimal and clean CV / resume template packed with nice features.
Bold is a minimal and clean one-page CV / resume template featuring print-ready and mobile-ready versions, downloadable PDF version generated on-the-fly, working Ajax contact form, jQuery lightbox gallery and social media section. It is also very easily editable and configurable.
You might wonder how Bold could help you, the blogger? Well, behind every blogger is a professional and truth is, no matter how much information you add to your resume and how much expertise you have, presentation is a key element.
The setup and configuration of the template is easy and straight forward and basically the time between the moment you finish downloading and the moment you have your full CV online is just a matter of how fast you type!
The Bold CV/resume HTML & PHP template is available for sale through the ThemeForest marketplace at the low price of $10 ($8 for the registered users with cash deposits).
It’s time to look good, be that online professional that everybody talks about!
One milestone down, one million page views!
After more than 2 years since launch day, 2 years with ups and downs, higher or lower publishing frequency, Blogsessive proudly reaches a new milestone: 1 million page views.
I don’t know if for others this is impressive or not, but I am thrilled and happy to be part of the nice community that formed around this blog and its blogsessed brand. I’m thrilled to be here and provide you folks with quality information and resources and I’m thrilled to let you know that such an event calls for a celebration.
And how better for a blogger to celebrate such a milestone than by giving back to the community for all he himself has received. Not more than a few days back I’ve released the Twitter Tweet button WordPress plugin and now it’s time for a new free WordPress release.
Introducing Typominima
Typominima is a free typography based, gorgeous, minimal WordPress theme. Head over to the Typominima release announcement post for more information, download link and let the writers in you express themselves in a beautiful environment!
Xmas Contest: Prize Winners
December 26 is here, which means today I am going to announce the two winners of the Xmas ReTweet Contest.
Each of the winners will have the possibility of choosing one of the Premium WordPress Themes available in the WordPress category at ThemeForest as their prize.
Complete list of participants
Below you’ll find the complete list of participants (39) that had valid contest entries (followed both steps in order to enter the competition):
1. Bloghita - @bloghita 2. Marius. - @Marius__ 3. Radu Panciuc - @panciuc 4. Eugen - @pauneugen 5. Nikolaevi4 - @Nikolaevi14 6. JeremyOLED - @JeremyOLED 7. Aldo - @iFeelanceWeb 8. Kimberly Castleberry - @KimJCastleberry 9. AlexT - @alext_1020 10. Razvan Girmacea - @RazvanGirmacea 11. Cristian VADUVA - @Vaduva 12. Youwei - @Youwei 13. Calítoe.:. - @Calitoe 14. Daniel - @danielpeisar 15. Anand Srinivasan - @knewthis 16. Margaret Ayad - @eracose 17. Nice from Thailand - @SE7ENize 18. Jennifer - @grizzarkhov 19. Dimitry Ekzarkhov - @design_deity 20. Tracy - @mattnem05 21. Dhaunae @Dhaunae 22. Jessica Dooley - @jessicadooley 23. Jason - @jasontromm 24. elmot - @elmot 25. Kat - @simplywp 26. Codrut @ Blog Post Ideas - @CodrutTurcanu 27. Damir - @wisehat79 28. Melvin - @melvinblog 29. Prasanth Chandra - @pcsbox 30. Jacob Yap - @jacobyap 31. Raju - @rajupp 32. naz - @aenaz 33. Suhas - @suhastech 34. Siddanth 35. Slipdisc - @Roadrippersid 36. technbohowl - @technohowl 37. Rich - @fireitup4USA 38. Michael Cannon - @SMARTcutGeek 39. Kushal Chen - @slayershanks
Xmas Contest: ReTweet to Win a Premium WordPress Theme
How long has it been since I’ve held the last contest on Blogsessive? Too long, but since holidays are close, lets have some fun and make two of you folks the owners of a brand new premium WordPress theme from ThemeForest. It is a simple contest and everyone owning a Twitter account is invited to join in!
Xmas Contest Prizes
Two of the contest participants will each win a premium WordPress theme of their choice from ThemeForest. Contest prize selection is restricted to the WordPress category on the previous mentioned website.
The two winners will be randomly picked by me on the day of December 26th. Read the rules below.
Click here to read the full blog post!
Free PDF eBook: Corporate Blogging Guide by Blogsessive
As promised a while back, I’ve finished editing the Corporate Blogging Guide in PDF eBook format. So, today I give you the chapters you’ve had the chance to read online plus a whole new chapter (8. Technical aspects) and some bonus tips to guide you in your corporate blogging adventures!
How to download the eBook?
In order to download the ebook, all you have to do is to subscribe for free to Blogsessive’s RSS feed (if you haven’t done so until now) and you’ll find the download link at the end of each article in the feed.
eBook preview and contents
Here are two screenshots of the book’s cover and the contents page:
Click here to read the full blog post!
Blogsessive News for this December
Hello folks, how’s everybody? The last week I’ve been working hard on a couple of projects, mostly related to Blogsessive. December is here and the New Year is just around the corner. I’m asking for your patience while I sort these “issues” out with a target in mind: The winter holidays should bring a couple of surpises on Blogsessive. I’ve been working really hard and trying to solve all things in parallel (both client work and work for Blogsessive), but it takes a little more than expected.
Fact is, I sure don’t want to get into the new year without giving you the gifts I’m preparing, so stay close cause this is what I’m getting ready to accomplish by the end of this week:
- The latest free WordPress theme (business CMS style): Corporate WP – Final stages
- Complete redesign of Blogsessive.com – In progress
- Switching servers – New server has been acquired and it is setup as we speak. I’ll move to the new server as soon as the new design is in place.
- Publishing the Corporate Blogging Guide in PDF format (Free) with an added chapter.
Thanks for your patience and I cannot wait to finish these jobs and to share views with you on them!
ClickTale: User tracking and landing page optimization tool
A few days back I was reading this interesting post on BloggingTips.com on how to plug an eBook on your blog and I instantly remembered all those ugly looking eBook sales/landing pages that you STILL find all over the Internet, like we’re still way back in ’98.
Do you have a good product to sell on your blog? Then why not give it a real chance. Why tell your visitors straight from the sales page that they are either stupid (“Please X, let me buy your book for only $29.99!) or that your have no idea how to make a unique presentation for a unique item!
Yes, I’m sure that almost every internet marketer will tell you how those ugly pages are effective, and how their “call to action” phrases and messages are really effective. Allow me to disagree! I hate them. You hate them. We run away the second we land on them!
A sale is not make by the number of colors and fonts you use on your landing page. It’s not made by the number of screen scrolls a user has to make in order to get to the part where the “call to action” makes him feel small and stupid compared to you, the big internet marketing guru!
A sale is made based on the quality of your products and ease of the (guided) buying process!
Click here to read the full blog post!
New phising attempts via Twitter DM
A new wave of phishing attempts makes its way through the direct messages (DM) system on Twitter.
You might receive a DM from one of the people you follow that could look like this:
Username: haha, that u on here? http://videos.ds*****w.com/
Clicking the link will take you to a page that for the untrained eye looks exactly like the Twitter login page. DO NOT enter your username & password. It’s not a Twitter API or anything. You’d just be giving away your authentication data.
Also, don’t be quick to judge the one sending you the DM as a spammer and report him/her. He might only be the victim of one such attack.
Hello friend!
I say FRIEND, in bold and caps, because if you’re reading this, that is what you are to me. Friends are there for you, for better or worse, and considering the events that lead to such a huge gap in article publishing in Blogsessive, you the ones that are still accessing the blog and are still subscribed to its RSS are definitely good friends.
To write about everything that happened in the past 2 to 3 months would take me at least twice the amount of time. Changes and events in every single aspect of my life, most of them for the worse. All these events kept me away from you, from the blog, from being in contact with the faithful readers.
I’ve been also struggling with the idea of selling the blog in order to allow it to survive and evolve while I took care of my personal life. I couldn’t. For the past year and a half this blog has been my home, the home where I’ve welcomed each and everyone of you. The home where all of you have been fantastic guests. I couldn’t give it up.
Instead, with the risk of falling back a few steps, I’ve decided to focus my whole energy in getting through this period only to find out that GOOD THINGS HAPPEN to those who wait, those who have faith and patience.
So, here I am, once again before you, thanking you for being here (which is one way of manifesting your support, even though none knew it was needed)!
Good things happen and will happen once more on Blogsessive. There will be a change in this blogs perspective. It will open up more to the community, and that’s why, for the “come back article” I have prepared a very useful post from the talented blogger Anand Srinivasan who will be sharing with us some of his tips on managing and prioritizing the management of a larger blog or website portfolio.
Also, among the new posts I’ve been preparing, the release of new, free WordPress theme is imminent. For now, a quick preview of this theme, called Corporate WP
See you all back tomorrow!
Alex
