Archive for July, 2007

Do Your Readers Follow the Law of Attraction?

Since oldest known times, people tried to figure out the nature’s laws. One by one, the gravity law, the energy conservation law, the action-reaction law, like many others, were discovered and studied, so they are now perceived as a given. In search of our spiritual nature, we claimed to discover another kind of natural laws, [...]


Design Decisions That Annoy Readers Part 1

I usually view a lot of sites when trying to come up with inspiration for a new design. After recently re-designing a site and creating a WordPress theme from scratch (you have seen the new design, right?), I thought I’d share a couple design decisions I found annoying.
Pop-Ups

I’m not talking about pop-up ads, [...]


I’d Like to Thank My Sponsors

I’d like to take a moment out of our regularly scheduled programming and thank some of the sponsors of the Reader Appreciation Project. Oh wait, we don’t have any. So how about we work out a deal? You sponsor us, and I’ll write a post about you at least once a month [...]


RA Project Re-Design Launched

After a few months of promising, the Reader Appreciation Project re-design is finally finished. At the suggestion of Bes, the re-design is not the default theme. We decided to allow you (the reader) to try it out for yourself voluntarily for a week or so before it is forced upon you. I’m [...]


3 Ways to Have More Manipulative Writing

Writing something can be one of the many ways to produce content. The same way you can write things to help your readers, you can also write things to manipulate your readers.
Following is a list of 3 ways you can write things in order to manipulate your readers, in case your focus is on things [...]