Inline CSS Images
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Example 7 - Inline CSS Images. Roundtrip response time: stevesouders.com | contact Steve This is the companion website for High …
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- Making a post about them every once in a while
- Having a top commenters widget
- Use gravitars
- Giving the top commenters a dofollow link
- Giving top commenters profile/link on the home page
- Giving top commenters a special design when they do comment, do occasional giveaways, etc…
- Use the dofollow plugin, so high quality commenters can get some SEO value from contributing.
- E-mail invoices to clients
- Save client data
- Payment processing options such as Authorize.net, Paypal, etc…
- Archived invoices
- Secure connection for viewing invoices
- Associate an image with each contact.
- Assign each contact to a company… or don’t.
- Create a note history for each contact.
- Clickable email and website links.
- Google map contacts address.
- Dial a phone number (works on cell phones with internet browsers).
- Fully hcard / vcard compatible.
- Track clients
- Track projects by client
- Track tasks by project
- Track time per task with dynamic timer like Harvest
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You have probably read the studies that claim on average, 1% of online users actually contribute and create content on a given website. The rest are perfectly happy reading your posts, forming their own opinions, and moving on to the next blog with out ever actually leaving any sort of feedback. This makes sense of course, we don’t always have time to leave our thoughts on blogs, or many times it doesn’t even seem worth the effort. After all you have to formalize your thoughts, actually write them out, review, edit, post, and then monitor for responses.
It actually is a lot more involved than we probably realize.
It is also a lot more important to get this type of reader interaction than we probably realize. The amount of interaction generated through a blog is an easy indicator of it’s success. Not only for the blog owner, but also to other readers. Consider looking at two blogs with similar content, one with an average of 10 - 20 responses where the other only has 1 - 3.
I hate to say it, but most people would subscribe to the blog that is generating more interest and response, even if the content was of similar quality.
How Design Can Encourage More Blog Commenting
When people blog about “design” in regards to websites many times they are primarily referring to the asthetic quality of a site. While the aesthetic quality of a site can have a large impact on how many people put in the effort to comment on a blog, I want to approach the situation at a higher level.
Consider that the definition of design is “to assign in thought or intention; purpose.”
Design is not just making pretty visuals, but to craft your site with specific thought, intention and purpose. So the question then becomes, how can we build the site with the intention of encouraging users to leave comments.
Create an Incentive or Reward
The primary reason anyone is going to leave a comment on a blog is they believe that their will be some pay off that is worth their time to formulate their response, edit it, etc… In most cases it is because they have a feeling about the content to the point where they feel the need to get their thoughts off of their chest, or maybe the author is well known enough where the idea of talking with them would be the reward.
However not all blog posts will have content compelling enough, or an author well known enough to create the incentive and reward with those elements alone.
Highlight Your Commenters
Smart marketers have found that the higher that you can appeal on Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, the better success you will have reaching your audience. By highlighting those who really participate you are appealing to the need of “esteem.”
You could do this by:
Give Your Commenters a Bonus
I have seen great response to giving the top commenters some sort of bonus. Widgets that keep track of who has commented the most make this an easy endeavor to track and monitor.
Some of the more common methods could be:
Use Design and Visuals to Engage Users
While I have talked about “design” in terms of designing an experience or functionality, I haven’t addressed the actual visuals of a design and how it can improve the amount of user interaction.
If you pay enough attention to the design and visuals of your comments, you can catch the attention of users and encourage them to leave a comment.
Make Your Comment Area Eye Catching and Interesting
As a users gets closer to the bottom of an article or post, you can bet that they have either scrolled past or lost focus of most of the visual elements on the page. This presents an excellent opportunity to draw their eye to the comment area by just adding a little bit of flair, tension, or contrast to develop some visual interest.
Want to really get some attention? Consider using custom designed form fields (not too custom as to hinder user experience).
Be Suggestive
Suggest that a user leave a comment where ever you can! At the start of the comments create a link to add a comment. You could even go so far as adding a “reply” button/link at every comment in the list.
Additionally this will make it easy to comment, as users won’t have to hunt for the add comment link.
Highlight the Commenters
People leave comments because they want people to read their opinion (even if it is just the author). Make sure that the users name/link has enough visual emphasis. This will help establish that the commenter will get the recognition that they are seaking.
Again, use Gravitars. Users who have gone so far as creating a gravitar will appreciate being able to show their branding on another blog and are more likely to comment because of it.
Any Experiences or Tips?
These are some of the best methods I have come across, if you have any experiences, tips, or other ideas on how to encourage more users to participate through the design of your blog/website feel free to leave a comment with your thoughts.
Plugins That Make Wordpress Into A Company Intranet
Wordpress has become a great platform for a wide range of website needs. Originally designed for blogging it is now a common package for full fledged content management systems and even complete web based applications.
Now we even have great opportunities to use Wordpress as an internal communication and back office tool. With these assortments of plug-ins we can use our favorite open source software to improve our businesses, efficiency and offer more solutions to our clients.
Billing
If you are a freelancer or a small company you know how much time can be sucked up by managing your billing. This is a bit of a shame because the billing part of the job should be the most fun, it’s how you get paid! There are a lot of available paid solutions for billing, but they are all hosted on different websites and applications and are not as nice and neatly integrated as doing it through Wordpress. Luckily we have WP-Invoice, a full invoice creation and tracking system that integrates with Wordpress directly.
It features:
Download WP-Invoice
Contact Relationship Management
As your business grows the amount of clients, leads and strategic partners you have will also grow. It is time to throw out the Rolodex, get rid of your piles of business cards, there are better ways to manage your contacts. The newest solution would be using a Contact Relationship Management system or CRM. There are a wide range of different CRM solutions available (salesforce.com, highrise, etc…) however Wordpress can function as one with the simple installation of a plug-in!
WP-CRM features:
Download WP-CRM
Project Management
Still using a pen and paper to manage your projects? You might as well be using a sundial to check the time! Using software to manage and track your projects is a lot easier and more sophisticated. While there are plenty of good commercial solutions available, why not integrate it into Wordpress? That way it is easy to use, customizable and open source. With the simple installation of a plug-in you can:
Download WP-Project
Office Communication
Sometimes proper and adequate communication is the most important and most difficult aspects of running a larger company. There are all sorts of tools that attempt to correct and fix this problem, some of them more effective than others. The Wordpress team themselves encountered this issue and sought to find a solution that integrated into their beautiful piece of software. Hence Prologue was born - a twitter like tool that can run off of your web server.
Download Prologue
Newsletter & Notifications
Need to send news and updates to your employees? Maybe you want to do some e-mail marketing for your company? Rather than pay monthly or per e-mail using an overpriced and underachieving e-mail marketing solution just integrate it with Wordpress. There is a simple, effective and easy to use newsletter tool that will do everything you need and more.
Download the Newsletter Plugin
Calendar
Keep track of all the events and important milestones going on with your business by using a simple and easy to use calendar system. There are a handful of Wordpress plug-ins that let you create and manage calendars, I have had the best luck with WP-Calendar. If you want to get very fancy you could also have a members only calendar so that only employees and those with a login can see it.