If you have any interest in public relations (essentially using communication and the media to publicize your business / site / self), you can check out a new PR blog I just launched today: Naked PR It will take a simplified approach of breaking things down on PR issues, news, tactics (like press release writing), and even PR job postings if anyone works in the industry. If you have any PR-related questions, please feel free to contact me privately, and I'll post responses there. Jenn
Bookmarked the site. Thanks. Any chance on toning down the template a bit - its very busy and hard on the eyes. Also, its very compact (I have a widescreen monitor).
What do you mean by "it's not reachable"? The link is in the first post, and it's displaying fine on my end. It took forever just to find a simple template with the basic structure I wanted, so I'm not going to be completely changing it. I'll look into making it expandable in the future, but it was screwing up other areas of the template pretty badly that way, so it's going to have to wait until I have more time to pick through it.
I wouldn't put google at start. And yes the theme is not the best for a big screen. Think of 19" screens.
Looks good! btw what do you mean by Naked ? is it something that relate with revealing truth?- if yes sorry it seems cheap word to me IMHO.
Alright, well thanks for taking the time to consider my request. Have a great day and good luck with the blog.
I use a 19" screen, and it doesn't bother me. etechsupport... that's kind of the point. PR professionals and the industry in general get a bad rep, b/c a lot of people just look at PR as "covering up" corporate scandals, political ones, celebrity ones... you get the idea. The blog is about exposing PR for what it actually is, and teaching small business owners how to understand and use it effectively while ethically. So the name is a bit of a play on that. Plus... if it grabs even one person's attention, it's doing its job.
Please change that template! so overcrowded Love your writing but that puts me off, have bookmarked it for when you (hopefully) change it Edit: You can only have 3 google ads on a page, you have 4
The adsense makes it look like a made for adsense site which turns me off personally. I think the content is great other then having to navigate through the sea of adsense ads to find it.
Wrong. You can have 3 ads and one link unit, which is what I have. The only ads I'd even consider removing are the ones below the menu, and I'm not seeing how they'd be "in the way" at all in the first place, and wouldn't replace them with anything as of now... perhaps most popular posts in the future or something, but not this early, and I don't want the empty space. While I appreciate the general feedback, I wasn't asking for design critique; just announcing that the content is available should anyone care about learning something about PR. The template won't be changed, aside from the possibility of making it expandable when I find time to look into the menu issue when it's set that way. It's stark, which is kind of the point. PR is heavily news-based, and the heavy text focus was intentional for that purpose. I didn't even really want to have the front page post images, but did that simply to break it up a bit. I would change the large ad to image-based, but there are few to no relevant image ads available, and the text ones in the PR niche tend to pay well enough that it would be entirely nonsensical for me to remove it and replace it with an affiliate ad (not there there are many of those either in the niche). So for the time being, I'm sorry for those who don't like it, but I won't be changing the design. I will, however, add the rss ink to a more accessible place.
There... I made a few ad changes, so I hope that helps a little for those that were bothered. I removed the top link unit and one of the gray bars to move things up a bit, got rid of the skyscraper ad in the middle column, and instead put a smaller ad unit there. So it's one ad and one ad unit on the home page, and 2 ads and one ad unit on the post pages (with the ad below the content, so it's not intruding on any actual reading). I hope that's a bit better, b/c I'm not going to be able to trim it anymore, and like I said before, I can't switch to image ads to break up text b/c of the niche.