Are your ideas flowing freely? Plenty of new ideas to write blogs about? That’s great! Unfortunately there will come a day, when you sit down to write an update about your business and your mind goes blank… you get easily distracted, and decide to come back to it another day. And that’s where most people go wrong, you keep putting it off and it gets harder and harder to come back to it. Not only will this disastrously effect your search engine ranking over time, it will also be disheartening for any loyal followers that enjoy reading your blog.

To help combat this, Orderof47 will be releasing five blogging topics a day to help get you inspired. You could use these stand alone as a base to write a blog post around, or you could use them as a spring board. It’s entirely up to you, they are mainly put together to get your creative juices flowing.

What your business is doing to beat the summer slump

What plans does your business have for the quiet weeks during summer, when it seems that everyone must be out sunbathing because nobody is buying.

Share a case study

Share a case study with your readers, discuss what you think about it, advantages, disadvantages etc

Provide an end of the week link roundup

Self explanatory, but you get the idea.

Review something

Preferably something you use for business. Your business mobile phone, most used web browsing device, operating systems, delivery companies etc

Reveal the best niche blogs to guestblog for

And what results have you seen from doing so

Incase you were wondering who Orderof47 are, we are a new media design agency based in Redditch, Worcestershire. If you need to contact us for whatever reason, you can do so on 0121 288 1047.

So, here are another five topics to get you inspired to start/continue writing your business blog. Another five will be posted tomorrow, in the mean time, get writing!

 

Continuing with our look at 2011′s design trends, today we are looking at a big change in the way people will interact with your site – Touch Screens.

Computing has become much more tactile, instead of navigating with a plain old mouse, your destination is now available at your fingertips. How does your site accommodate fingertip navigation?

You will be surprised on how much of your site design has mouse-oriented design elements? As designers, we use mice every day and our designs reflect that, our links light up when the mouse hovers over, navigation menus are triggered by clicks and movement.

Similarly, how will visitors browse your site? for the last 50 years computing has always used the rule to display information from top to bottom, in 2011 this looks to change. Horizontal scrolling is ergonomically more appropriate for touch screen devices, it replicated reading more naturally from a book or paper.

Using liquid layouts as part of your sites design will help alleviate the problem with displaying your site over a whole host of screen ressolutions and in 2011 that is essential. Visitors can change their viewing orientation from vertical to horizontal with a simple move of a device, your design must be flexible to meet this, or your site can easily get lost in 2010.

Continuing our look on Design Trends in 2011, today we are looking at Mobile Browsing.

Mobile devices like the iPhone and iPad have been selling like hot cakes for the last two years and mobile browsing features predominately in there usage. Most people have created a separate, smaller, cut down versions of there website enabling a smoother experience for the mobile user, problem with this method is just that – a cut down experience featuring less content for your mobile users.

You need to make sure that your site does not cut down on the content for mobile users. Making sure you have a scalable content, even video that can be viewed on mobile devices will not degrade the experience you will have with your site. Users will thank you for this by retuning time and time again.

We also recommend featuring a link back to the original site, giving the user the choice rather than forcing them to use the cut down site will keep a user happy, many times I myself have stopped using a site due to the mobile front end forcing me to use the reduced content site – its just not worth taking that shortcut with your mobile site.