"Blog Design" Posts

Dana Rockel Rocks

dana-screamsThanks, SmartLife for naming ContentRobot’s Dana Rockel among your Top 50+ Blog Service Providers. He landed at #43!

We appreciate the mention and acknowledgment of his fine work.

ContentRobot is Blue

No, we’re not depressed – ContentRobot took the next leap in our redesign!

What’s new?

  • More Streamlined Copy – We could pare down our copy to focus more on how we can help and less about what blogging is (since lots more people are aware of it).
  • Updated Navigation – We simplified the nav to reflect our main offerings: blogs and blog-powered websites, WordPress expertise) along with links to our portfolio and a “hire us” form.
  • Home Page Features – Click on any button in the nav to reveal a succinct overview displaying what we are all about and

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WordPress Media Manager + Flash Uploader = Woes

Recently we extolled the virtues of WordPress’s Media Manager and its relative ease to add images to your posts. After upgrading several client sites to WP 2.5/2.6, we must say in practice that there is still work to be done here.

Our beef? WordPress relies on Flash to upload media. This means that you get a nice visual or “crunching” status bar, but downright unhelpful error messages. What issues have we encountered?

  • Big images – you can’t upload full size images
  • Resizing images – sometimes the resizer (placing small and medium images) will be completely ignored
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ContentRobot.com’s Design Update

Our regular readers might notice that a new look is starting to come to ContentRobot.com.

What’s new?

  • the shell is getting poured in
  • our tagline was tweaked
  • the blue gets darker and more techy
  • the navigation buttons are stylized
  • a textured background anchors the design

While there is much to be done (the internal pages still look wonky!) we are pleased with this iteration. What do you think?

Internet Geek Girl v2.0


ContentRobot relaunched InternetGeekGirl.com today!

Once integrated with StephanieAgresta.com, this blog gets its own look and matches the branding set by  Affiliate Karma.

The highlights of IGG include:

  • A cool combo of girly-tech with the pinks, oranges, and blacks
  • Web 2.0-inspired fonts
  • Tons of widgets in the sidebar to highlight events, social marketing, and blog navigation elements
  • Follow her twitter feed, popular posts, and comments found in the footer

Congrats, Stephanie, have fun with it!