Getting return visitors to your blog

Rick on his blog Shards of Consciousness has a post called “Three ways to get me back to your blog” where he highlights the importance of style of your blog. He says that light text on a dark background is a real put off for him. The text has to be very easy to read.

I agree.

If a blog or website has small white text on a black background I only stay a few seconds. If I don’t move on quickly, my eyes start to hurt badly. They’ve lost my attention.

Quite a discussion is happening on this topic on Rick’s site. Visit it here. (Sorry – the link no longer works.)

Updated November 2013.

Short Fiction #10 Sacrifice

Sacrifice

Susan stared at the wall.

“That’s it,” she whispered. “I’ve had enough.”

She knew that she was finished.

It was no use continuing.

“Enough is enough.”

She sat there for ages, almost like a stone.

Finally, she struggled to rise.

“That’s it,” she repeated. “The rest of that chocolate cake will have to wait until later.”

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Copyright 2006 Trevor W. Hampel

Read more of my short fiction here.

Haiku #14 Seagulls

Raucous screeching gulls

Fight over scraps thrown by

Indulgent people.

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Copyright 2006 Trevor W. Hampel.

Silver Gull

Silver Gull

Writing Hint #5 Use apostrophes correctly

My daughters an English teacher in one of our state high school’s.

She emphatically claim’s to be an “apostrophe nazi.”

She goes around the staff room, office and staff office’s correcting the misuse of apostrophe’s in other people’s poster’s, notices and anything pinned up on the notice boards.

I’m thinking of never going shopping with her again – just in case she decides to go around correcting poster’s and advertising hoardings. That would be most embarrassing.

I recently came across this following hint regarding the use of apostrophes:

Use the possessive apostrophe in it’s place and omit it when its not needed.

One cant be too careful.

I hope my daughter never read’s this or she might find a few mistakes. At least she cant access this blog in order to correct it’s mistakes.

Oh dear – Ive just realised that she could leave comments about this post. Ooops.

I invite you to comment on the above text.

Can you find all the errors?

I think I have made 14 errors. But… I could be wrong!

Poem #7 Summer Storm


Summer Storm

The storm has passed

And the rain has stopped.

The oven-fresh earth

Smells most delectable –

I eat up airy mouthfuls of it!

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Copyright 2006 Trevor W. Hampel.

I invite you to read more of my poetry here.