I have a lot of respect for sites like Smashing Magazine, they’re doing a great job serving the best of the design web, and their posts are always worth a glance. They always attract a lot of links, which is warranted.
Problem is, a lot of blogs are doing the same thing, listing stuff. It can be the best WordPress plugins, or designers to follow on Twitter, some Firefox 3 themes, or… Well, you get the picture.
Lists are easy content, and if you’ve got a good compilation you’ll get links. Linkbait comes to mind. Read more
I get a lot of press releases these days. Actually, I’ve always gotten a lot of them, but the last year or so they have increased. Being the editor of The Blog Herald adds to it of course, so there’s a lot of companies and people wanting me to write about their service. So how often do I pick up on a press release? Not very, actually, and that’s because the PR people fails to spark my interest.
Here’s a bit of free advice for you PR reps out there, trying to get me to write about your service. Read more
Blogging is very time-consuming and challenging. Either you want to break the story, or you want to be the one adding to it with brilliant thoughts and analysis. Or perhaps your income is based on how often you update, something that isn’t all that uncommon after all.
Do you remember to take breaks?
And more importantly, do you remember to take a day off?
I know it can be hard, because that ever present feeling that we need to update is tough to shrug off. That is partly because it is warranted, most of us are having the problem that we need to produce to make money, and we need to produce a lot. The thing is, having 7 day weeks isn’t the solution. Read more
If you’ve been sitting here reloading tdhedengren.com like a madman today, you’ve probably seen things acting funky, temporarily freaking out (twice), new stuff appearing, disappearing, and then appearing again. In other words, I’ve been messing around a lot today, and I feel I’m getting there. Sure, there’s a lot left to do, but most of the really tricky things are in place. Loads of graphics and visual fixes to take care of, but still, I’m slowly getting there.
This is as far I’m gonna get this week though, as I’m taking the weekend off. I try not to work weekends, and although it is fun to dabble with something like this site, being somewhere in limbo on my work-scale-meter-thingy, it doesn’t change the fact that I need to reload sometimes. I’m not 18 anymore, working 7 days a week, and pulling a few all-nighters every month.
What I’m getting at is that tdhedengren.com will look like this for a little while longer. I hope you can cope. But naturally I can’t leave you at that, so why not talk a bit about what’s yet to come in this redesign? Read more
I’ve been using A Small Orange (ASO for short) for several years, they are my host of choice for international projects. My sites in Sweden are located in Sweden physically as well, but everything else is on ASO.
As regular readers of this blog know, my relationship with ASO isn’t simple. The last year or so the uptime have been poor, at least to my demands, and that culminated in me deciding to move to another host. However, ASO suggested to move my account to a different server, and that actually did the trick. I haven’t seen very much downtime since the move, which is great. Read more
The blood was sticky already, but the assassin didn’t grunt or even slump, barely recognizing the gash in the side’s existence. He was a trained killer, a master of his trade, dangerous and always present and alert. His heart had calmed, the adrenaline back in its stores, ready to rush through the killer’s veins again, give him the extra strength, focus, even luck needed in times of need. Read more
OK, that’s it for the day. Regular readers are probably stunned by the amount of RSS items, but they are all old, well, almost all. Since I moved from one WordPress install to another, all RSS items went out again, and so did the trackbacks. Sorry about that, but I didn’t do anything funky, just ye olde import/export from within WordPress. It works pretty well, by the way, I endorse it.
I don’t endorse the fact that the category to tag converter won’t let me convert every category though, but I fixed that manually.
As you can see, things are a bit messy at the moment. This is far from done, expect tdhedengren.com evolve during the coming week. I’m away all weekend, so nothing then, but I’ll put some hours in after that.
All OrnTales.com content have been moved to the new Fiction section of this site, and as I said before, the domain points there too.
Other than that, everything visible should work, so happy reading and commenting, as usual. And stay tuned for more. Thanks for your patience.
I’ve improted everything from OrnTales.com to tdhedengren.com, and the domain will point to tdhedengren.com/category/fiction/ tdhedengren.com/read/fiction/ for now. Expect better presentation later on. One step closer, today will be all about this site for me.
I’m sorry to yet again have to flag for some craziness here at tdhedengren.com. There’s things to be done, mostly behind the scenes at first, but then also in a more public, visual way. I might redirect traffic for some time to make sure that everything can work as it is intended, or I might just deal with it. Read more
The new Devlounge design went online yesterday. I hope you like it!
