Blogging nowadays is very popular in our generation because there are so many people are maintaining their own blogs around the world and even a kid can have their own blogs too. Everytime I ask a blogger friend what does Blog means to him/her they always tell me that blogging is a way of them to express their feelings, opinions, life perceptions, and to earn money from it. Well as for me this are also one of the reason why I am blogging now and I really enjoy blogging not because I am earning from it but because it helps me to develop my skills and social life.

I was once a noob (newbie) in blogging and I really don’t know what blog means and the benefits that I can get from it and also I am clueless on what to write in my blog there are so many failures and mistakes that I encountered while blogging and there are times that I want to quit and worst it leads me to stop blogging but I was wrong because this failures and mistakes that I encountered during my journey in blogosphere teaches me a lot on how to become a better blogger. There are some tips that help me to become a better blogger, I would also like to share this to you and I hope that this tips might help you as well.

• Choose a Wordpress as your blogging tool.
• Get your own host and domain name for your blog.
• Choose the right hosting provider.
• Don’t choose a domain name which is to long.
• Using xoxo, xo, and xxx is not appropriate as a domain name.
• Always do a research first before posting.
• Don’t copy an article, Be creative on what you write.
• Be passionate on what you write.
• Write for your readers not for yourself only. Don’t be a selfish
• Update your blog 2 or 3 times in a week.
• Don’t let your blog die because of late updates or no updates.
• Updating your post everyday is a big NO! NO!. Give your Blog a break!
• Be polite and nice.
• Be open-minded because not all of your readers will agree on you.
• Keep in mind that Mistakes is the greatest teacher.
• Learn to accept Failures and Mistakes because it will help you to improve.
• You cannot please anyone keep that in mind.
• Don’t take criticism personally be open minded about it because it will help you to become a better person.
• Respect others opinion.
• If you have haters, don’t blog about them. Your just making them famous and also it lowers your reputation as a blogger
• Comment them unto their post, they will comment back at your post.
• Always reply to comments.
• Offer Link Exchange or Affiliation.
• Offer email subscription.
• Don’t expose your personal information too much in the internet. Protect yourself
• Don’t use to much WP Plugin to impress because it can slow down your site page load.
• Don’t use to much JavaScript it can also slow down your site page load.
• Don’t auto-play your music box let your visitor choose if they want to listen in your music or not.
• Visitors doesn’t want a slow poke site.
• Offer your visitors and readers a Freebies or a Reward.
• Optimize your URL for Search Engine.
• Use Feedburner.
• Use Technorati.
• Make use of Social Networking sites to promote your blog. (e.g. Plurk, Friendster, Multiply, Twitter, Facebook, Myspace, and etc.)
• Don’t Monetize your blog too early. especially your blog is not 3-12 months old yet
• Don’t force your visitors to click your ads in your page.
• Keep in mind that Page Rank is important.
• Use Login Lockdown Plugin to protect your WP-Admin and WP-Login page from hackers.
• Patience and Motivation is the key to success in blogging.
• Always learn from your experience.

Hi everyone now I am back on track again and to give you some Adobe Photoshop Tutorial well I received so many e-mails asking if how did I make the awesome effects in every text here in my site, actually I would like to thank everyone who e-mailed me about this one so here is for you, hope you like it.

Instructions:

• First, create a new document. File New
  

• Type the text that you want and be sure this is your final text because when we proceed to step 3 there is no turning back. Use a font which is BOLD don’t use a font which is to slim because the effect will not be seen.
  

• Once you type the text, you will see the layer of your text at the right side just duplicate that layer of your text (Ctrl + J) and name that layer as Shadow Layer and rasterize that layer.
  

• Next, Hold CTRL and click the Shadow Layer, you must attain the result below.
  

• Then press D then X, you will see that in your color pallete it will give you a White/Black color.
• After that press Alt + Backspace in order to fill the selection with foreground, you must attain the result below.
  

• Use the Elliptical Marquee Tool and make a selection on the Shadow Layer.



• Then press Del.
• On Shadow Layer, change the opacity to 30% or 40%.
• For finale, Right-click the Original Layer then select “Blending Options”, click on “Stroke” set your size to 2 then click the red box and switch to the color you want. Then Click OK.