The new Devlounge design went online yesterday. I hope you like it!

Have you ever been the editor of a site or magazine? Then you know how much time is spent brushing up people’s contributions, removing silly errors, sometimes fact checking, and even doing occasional formatting. I know that most blogs allow authors to proofread and publish their posts themselves, and it is good for the content flow, but bad for quality. We’re doing that on The Blog Herald, a site built on news and feature posts being more or less longer news, and it’s the only way to do it. Unless you have a proofreader sitting on standby all the time, it’s just not possible not to have this kind of posting procedure. More

Are you both a blogger and a Mac user? Then you really should read today’s article on Devlounge, titled Blogging Software for Mac Users. It’s about desktop blogging, and pits three pieces of software against each other. One got my money…

It’s not just Wisdump I’m redesigning, and are involved with on Splashpress Media’s behalf. Devlounge and Wisdump are supposed to work in harmony, and the two sites’ redesigns are of course a necessary step for this.

The first mockup of the new Devlounge design is up, and anyone who thinks stuff can speak their mind in the mockup post.

There’s a lesson to be learned here. You should always make serious decisions in conjuncture with your readership. The final call is yours, and you can’t please them all, but be sure to use their opinions to build a better product.

I was hoping to announce a project today, but I’ll have to push that forward a bit, waiting to get the definite word from my favorite illustrator. Would be nice to launch it with a piece of his work, but I hadn’t planned it so if he’s swamped I’ll just go ahead. It’s worth the extra days of waiting though.

Meanwhile, I’ve returned to The Blog Herald with a post connecting to my tooting your own horn post. If you want to know how to get me to read your blog, this is the post for you. Long time TDH readers (hah!) might remember that I started my international blogging career at that fine site, before moving on to 901am. Full circle, eh? More