ArcticLlama Freelancing Blog

Every once and a while I run across a website that I end up opening link after link in new tabs only to find myself with some ridiculous number of open tabs and Firefox warning me that opening more will make my browser slow.

Then, I open Chrome and open more.

The point is, that I end up finding good value in these sites. Since it is so hard to distinguish the good websites from the garbage websites, I figure that people coming here might be interested in seeing if there is some value in those sites for them as well.  I’ll be implementing the time honored blogging tradition of link love, or link list posts to display those sites that I find useful.

Keep in mind that this is not an endorsement, nor a commentary on their accuracy or long-term value.  Rather, these are the sites that caught my fancy long enough to warrant a bookmark and a first read through.  Make your own value judgments when you get there.  Also, there is no ranking involved here, just a list, so number 5 is just as good as number 1.

Good WordPress Sites

1. Nathan Rice
2. wpazo
3. Pro Blog Design

These are all WordPress related because that was what I was working on today, but don’t worry, I’ll have all kinds of useful links for writers on future editions.

Thanks to SERPs (Search Engine Result Page) and Google’s reliance on certain methods of ranking webpages there is often limited value to actually being clever on the Internet, at least in so far as your website design is concerned. 

Clever multimedia, particularly lowest common denominator oriented videos, of course, is actually valuable thanks to “becoming viral,” or more specifically thanks to people who email, tweet, update status, or otherwise link to funny things.  Of course, what is funny to one person is dumb or lame to another person, so it’s really sort of a random thing about what does and doesn’t work.

All of that aside, I came across a website today billed on another site as the “all signal no noise” resource for everything WordPress.  I haven’t read enough of it yet to know whether or not that is true, but either way, I did get a good chuckle out of it.

Seems that the owner of wpazo knows his way around a dictionary entry and decided to explain what his website was all about thusly.

Always nice to get a laugh from the world of words that us writers are immersed in.