Blog tip #6: Creativity with Blogger; using it to make quality websites beyond the Blog

Pinch Gallery

For some time now, we've been documenting how people can take advantage of Google's Blogger service to make blogs that really showcase their incredible content by using the flexibility provided by this free hosted service. That's why we were surprised when we came across an article detailing the blog platforms among the top 100 blogs and noticed three things: that very few of those blogs use Blogger (3%, one of which is Google's Blogger Blog so really only 2%), that the majority of the blogs listed there are exceptionally unattractive and/or use default templates*, and that the ones that are good looking are all custom software (A List Apart is a good example).

Don't play the RFP budget cat-and-mouse game

We're often called by organizations that are preparing to formulate a RFP and are looking for guidance on one of the biggest questions that you need to tackle in the process: Should I include our budget for the project in the RFP?