BLOG DESIGN JOURNAL

Blog design is fun. But unless you are a paid professional, chances are you cannot spend all your time on it.

If you are still in school, you have homework to do, tests to study for, and grades to make, so you will pass. And those of us who are good at design are often not so good at math, science, and other topics. Just as techies are often not so good at writing, spelling and grammar.

Doing well in school is important. After all, you have a much better chance of getting a design job or a technical job doing what you love if you finish school. High school is mandatory. College is getting to be.

What do you do to make sure you pass all those hard (but required) courses? Get some help at Tutorhub, an online tuition and homework help website. You can work with other kids to share homework questions and work together to solve them on line. If you need more help, you can contact tutors online for one-on-one help (for a reasonable charge) from a specialist in your subject.

So knock out that homework with a little help from your new friends and study partners. And if you still have problems getting it, or need help passing a test, you can get a professional tutor to help you.

Then you can get back to designing blogs and having fun. Deal?

Blog designers now need to keep up with smartphone technology. Clients now need for us to incorporate QR codes, automated texting, and a host of other technology with their sites. So we need to know and use the latest technology ourselves.

That means we can no longer wait for our cell phone providers to give us new “free” phones every two years when we sign a new contract. As a blog designer you need to move up to iPhone and Android and keep moving up as technology advances.

So what do you do with those older mobile phones? Do you toss them out? Donate them for emergency use? Or sell them to get back some cash to defray the cost of constantly updating?

Here is the best way to sell your older mobile phone: Trade it in on SellMyMobile.com. They compare and show you the current prices for 400+ models of mobile phones, so you know what is the best price you can get for your phone.

I had no idea what the going rates were for mobile phones like mine, and I find eBay more confusing than helpful for that kind of info. Who knows which prices are realistic there?

From now on, SellMyMobile is where I plan to go to sell my phone.

Take a look. I think you will want to do the same.

As blog designers we need to keep up with not only the latest designs, technology, software and SEO, but also with the latest business trends as they affect the sites we design. It is not all about the pretty colors—or even the content.

As users become accustomed to more and more interactivity—with smart phones, tablets, advanced web designs, and more—we need to provide more and more interactivity on websites and blogs. Especially for business, and even if our clients have not thought of it yet.

Business communication used to be a one-way street. Companies made announcements, ran ads, released news. Customers waited to be persuaded. Or sold. Not anymore.

Interactivity is now essential for business websites. It has been especially important for consumer confidence in new technology such as home banking.

Consequently live chat features have become a standard for ecommerce sites to make connections with site visitors. And LivePerson, which has been around since 1995, provides the most comprehensive live chat software for business.

As the first company to make chat an active sales tool, LivePerson is a chat technology innovator. In fact, they lead customer relationship technology with chat software that includes a behavioral targeting engine to give the customer a convincing, effective, and pleasant experience.

LivePerson has live chat solutions for all kinds of sites. They offer good-looking graphics and specialized products for all kinds of businesses and customers. This is top of the line chat that increases sales, because customers like it.

That means that as blog designers, we need to recommend it to our clients and incorporate it in the sites we build.