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30 Great Simple Blog Layouts


Here is a selection of my favorite simple blog designs. To qualify for this list, the blogs had to have clean, effective layouts with little clutter, a good choice of colour, shape and design, and not rely too much on images. Loading quickly, having good content and quality writing skills also helped.

  1. Engadget
  2. PatDryburgh.com
  3. Wilsonminer.com
  4. Smashing Magazine
  5. Flickr Blog

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Entrecard Being Updated


It seems entrecard is currently down. They say they should be up in ten minutes…lets see what’s new!

Google Updates Page Rank


Google has just gone on a recent bout of updating our pagerank. Unfortunately this blog, which has only been up for a month and a half, didn’t get a Page Rank (still zero). But my personal blog got upgraded to a Page Rank of 3. Whoo!

Not that this means much, since this blog gets a lot more traffic than my personal blog, but it’s a good start. I hope I can start building some nice links for this blog as well, and maybe my pagerank will go up in the next three months…

Apple Ups The iMac Specs

As you may (but most likely don’t) know, I am a fan of Mac products - particularly my lovely MacBook Pro 15″. Well they’ve recently released a new update to the iMac line of all-in-one desktop computers which no top out at the 3.06Ghz 24″ Model with 2Gb RAM, 500Gb Hard Disk, etc. But my MacBook Pro does serve me really well, so I’m not looking at getting a desktop any time soon.

But that shouldn’t stop anyone else. If anyone’s interested, they should head over to apples website and check them out.

Get Paid For A Post On Your Blog

Hello all.

I just recently signed up for payperpost which, as you may or not know, provides a service where you can sign up, submit your blog and then start getting paid to blog. The things you blog about are products, services and websites of the advertisers on payperpost. They are the real people paying you, but payperpost are the ones who set it all up.

Once you sign up, you will need to submit your blog. This takes about five minutes, but soon comes the wait. Once your blog is submitted, it has to be approved. This process took (in my case) about two weeks. When submitting your blog it says to provide a link to your archives or a link to your oldest post. I provided a link to my oldest post, but then got an email informing me that my submission was declined because I didn’t have a link to my archives page…Oh well.

After quickly re-submitting my blog (with a link to an archives page), I then got an email a week or so later, confirming that my blog had been approved and that I could begin to get paid to blog about things. Awesome!

So once you’ve been approved, you can head over to your dashboard and go to the Open Opportunities page. This is the page were all the available opportunities to post about are listed. Take a look at the opportunities available to you (which change depending on certain details about your blog such as page rank, etc.), complete the opportunity and then (most importantly) get paid! Whoo!

So overall, so far the blog-submitting process took a little while, but the interface is slick, and payperpost even list a specific opportunity to post about payperpost - which I’m doing right now - which can grab you $20! Easy as that.

So everyone hop on over to payperpost, and start “posting about things your love” (affiliate link below):