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Further more into the book
In this The Art & Science of CSS, you’ll find out how to create a beautiful and functional web design with CSS. Starting from the header, navbar, images, background and etc.
Like most of the Sitepoint E-books, it is written in a simple language and many cool example for you to view. This full color e-book will give anyone who is interested in web-design a huge boost in their design skill.
What’s my rating?
As a beginner in web design, the e-book is totally awesome, I own most of the e-books from Sitepoint and this e-book is making me feel excited. This is definitely the 9/10 e-book you should check out. Whether you are web-designer or not, you can get this e-book for FREE.
How to get it?
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A Small Wish From a Kid
I don’t hope for toys, I don’t hope for candies, all I need is my parent and a place to let me sleep peacefully every night
Imagine this. Your kids are running around the field and playing with his friends. He doesn’t need to worry anything and he get the protection from his family, these kids can play with each other without fear. You’re his angel, these kids believe that you can do anything. And if you’re one of these kids, then you’re very lucky.
But try to picture this, suddenly the war breaks. These kids need to run away from their country and wander to a new country just to seek protection. A new country where they don’t even know what they’ll face there. The boys need to fight for survival and most of the girls are vulnerable to any kind of abuse.
Hence some questions come to my mind, do these kids really need to go through this? If it is some kind of test for these children from God, isn’t it too much? For me, the children is the future of this world. For me, the children should be playing and exploring. They are the angel of this world and the one who will carry on what we should have done.
But that is what most of the refugees face, especially the children. I don’t know what I can do to help them, only by writing this post and let people know that there are some kids out there who are lacking of education living in fear and uncertainty.
I’ve been a member of BlogCatalog and BloggerUnite always remind me one thing. You’re not living in this world alone, you can’t be selfish. While you strive hard to pursue your dream, you can also contribute to other people by taking some simple action. So, I think it’s time for me to stop and listen to these children small voice.
How to Use Comment and Turn Visitor into Reader
Original Image by : Lumaxart
Comment Marketing is also known as one of the ways to drive traffic to a blog. Comment marketing is commonly used by a new blog to achieve a certain traffic because they are desperately want to gain instant traffic. Sometimes I find it’s funny to see a forum post with title like this “How to Get 1000 Visitors in One Day”.
I can accept that because It is one of the copywriting skills to create a headline that grabs attention.
But do you know that commenting also requires skills? This idea appeared when I was sleeping in the car (It is said that ideas always comes out when you’re relaxing).
Perhaps it is one of the habit I usually follow. I am expecting a good result by doing so. I’ll guarantee that your comments will work better if you follow these habits.
1. Add Value, Share Your Experience
I often see a comment that said “Thank you, it is great”. I feel great whenever I receive comments like that because I know readers find the post helpful. But it will be greater to add value into your comments rather than a simple thank you.
How to add value?
Easy, all you need to do is to choose some of your blog post which you think really relevant and can add value to the blogger’s post. Share what you’ve known related to the blog post. Using search engine to provide more content can also add more value in your comment.
2. Leaving Feedback to Fellow Commenter
After you add value into your comment, blog owner and his readers will read the comment too. Especially if your comment carries value.
Well, what’s next?
The comment form always let us to leave our website URL. Most of times,the commenter will leave their homepage URL. Now let’s change this habit, everytime you post a comment, leave your most relevant blog post in the comment form. If you do this way, you’re not only adding value but also turn his readers become your readers too.
3. Comment on Related Blog
If your solely purpose is to turn visitors into readers, then the best ways is to comment on relevant blog. Beside the content of your blog and the blog you comments are similar, it can also let your blog post have more exposure because most of time you’ll have more opportunity to leave high value comment in their blog.
4 Comment Whenever You Want
I’m not a regular commenter but I do follow the progress of the blog I subscribed. Most of times, these blogs are the blogs which have the same approach and age. If you really want to leverage your blog by building relationship with the blogger within your niche. Then you can find out how to do comment marketing with Felix.
Summarizing all the habits I have shared, I can show you a example of art commenting. (I wish I am left-handed)
Name : Sayz
Website : http://www.sayzlim.net/2008/10/5-characteristic-of-a-good-blog-design/
Comment : Blog design do plays an important part in blogging. I tweaked my blog design and it turned most of the visitors into readers. Some of the blogpost I find it is worth to read are [blog link] by [blog author]. There is a website which provide template if you don’t plan to create your own template, it can be found in [blog url]
Now for some practice, why don’t you try to add value in this post? And please share your experience with us later after practicing these skills.