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We, humans are the most expressive creatures in the world, even the most introverted! We make use of both spoken and written words to convey our message across. The art of aptly describing what’s on your mind boils down to your writing or speaking abilities. While writing plain English is no challenge, eliminating the nuances from one’s writing to get the message across adequately is a challenge for many. While the best of the writers can capture the attention of readers with their succinct description of events, most of them struggle to find words or phrases to perfectly fall in place with the content. Writing aptly is a skill and it goes beyond the simple use of grammar in your prose. While grammar forms an essential aspect of writing, there are more aspects of writing which must be taken off while working on it. Overuse of cliches, adverbs, bulky phrases, etc is some of the examples of poor writing and something which needs to be addressed. Writing is a form of art and … [Read more...] about 11 Best Websites to Improve Writing Skills in English

Even as we speak, we are well into the Web 3.0 era, a period which has customization and personalized content at its core. The web is increasingly becoming a space where users can pick and choose the content that would like or want to see and create their own “zone”. For companies, big and small, the future implies revamping their web strategies radically. Reviewing your Website Design In the whole scramble and din of social media and mobile apps, your website is still the most important feature of your digital marketing plan. Your website is your home turf and the base on which you must build all your further marketing and promo campaigns. Preparing your website for the future calls for taking important measures, ranging from web design, user experience, content and marketing. I.           Web design The basic rule of web design for the future is to not have any rules. Users are being exposed to a steady stream of … [Read more...] about Business Website Must-Have for Future: Preparing you for the Long Haul

Interesting Journey It feels so immensely strange to be sitting down to write this post.  As of this morning it marks the seventh year of Tales of the Aggronaut.  I am not exactly sure why but seven years seems like a significantly more auspicious number than five or six or even eight.  Culturally we place a strange importance on the number seven as either lucky or magical, and I have to admit that I fall for this same trap myself.  As a web developer by trade, I started this blog with a purpose and had all of the trappings of a proper website.  One of those is of course Google Analytics integration, and I spent some time this morning going over the numbers before sitting down to write this post.  In the Seven years I have published 1260 posts, and they have been read a grand total of 235,304 times at the moment of pulling the stats.  Over the course of this blogs lifespan I’ve had 110,359 unique readers from 182 countries, and roughly … [Read more...] about Seven Years

As of Sunday September 1st the running of the 2019 edition of Blaugust was finished. Yesterday I spent some time going through all of the blogs that had participated and tabulated the number of posts. Bonus points for Nait for helping me find a few posts that were not clearly visible on the front page of a few of the participating blogs. By final tally here are some of the statistics for 2019. 1305 posts were made by Blagust 2019 Participants66 Individuals Participated11 Newbie Bloggers Participated55 out of 66 made at least 5 posts qualifying for Bronze36 made at least 15 posts qualifying for Silver31 made at least 25 posts qualifying for Gold27 made 31 or more posts during the month of August qualifying for Rainbow We had one outlier this month and I went back an forth about it, but Data_Error embarked upon a project of making a post for every Pokemon and as a result wound up with a nonsense 83 posts during the month of August. Wilhelm and Bhagpuss both came in with over 40 posts … [Read more...] about Blaugust 2019 Wrap up