How to begin a web project is always up for debate. After the initial meetings are done and a price has been agreed upon, it often comes down to the designer to start things off. And designers tend to do what they do best, design. So already the project is starting on a rocky foundation. Why? Because content is king and and any design that is created before the written content cannot be a total success. Yet you cannot start writing content without knowing a few things first. So which is it?

Starting this site I had no real idea how much time it takes to produce good content. So here are some of the changes I’ve made to my process to get content out faster.

One of the wonderful thing about the Internet is that anyone can voice their opinion or start up a business. Put up a little website or blog and share what you know with the rest of the world. Unfortunately, the little voices out there get drowned out by the big boys on the block, to the point where many people wanting to share something with the world are really just talking to themselves.

When you first start blogging you will probably write posts of a length that feels natural is a long as you have something to say. As you get further along into your writing it will help to break things up and create other types of posts. I’ve listed 7 types here and the purpose of creating each.

ExpressionEngine is my CMS of choice. I could use Wordpress or another blogging platforms when I need to create a blog but I'd rather use what I know. That and I can turn a blog built with ExpressionEngine into a much larger site with ease if need be. So here is a list of accessories, plugins, modules, field types and extensions that make blogging with ExpressionEngine easier to do.

One of the best ways to get repeat visitors is to increase the amount of engagement on your site. If there is no way for users to interact or react to your content than you are just an information site. Here are 8 of the most common ways of doing so.

It tends to be the case with most posts that once they get pushed off the homepage, they get read less and less often. Just because a post isn't brand new doesn't mean readers wouldn't like it. So here are some ways of promoting those good old posts that have been forgotten.

Blog archives have been an important part of blogs since well, there have been blogs, but are they really necessary or relavant any more. Especially now that that it is easier to build search into your site, and find other ways of promoting older posts.

There are many reasons why your website could have broken links. Finding them and fixing them could take a long time but luckily there are free services that do it pretty painlessly.