I am starting to notice just how important some visual stimulation is when writing. You can’t simply write a great post and expect people to read it, they will get bored before they even finish loading the page. You either have to do some fancy writing with lists/bolding/etc or you have to integrate images into your posts. You can either have one image for each topic, or a different image for each post.

This is not really something that I do a lot on this site, and probably won’t since I don’t make money here and I really simply use this site for my own thought processing. But one a number of my other sites I have noticed that I get a much better response to posts with an image in the start of the post.

Since I am not much of a photographer, although I have an interest in it, I have to resort to using stock images. Currently my source of choice is CreStock. One reason is the free image of the day, which may not fit all of my niches, but it is a start to a library that I can grab from, and then you have the images that start at $5, which in my mind is pretty cheap, in the run of a good article I expect it to make me at least $50, and if I hit it good on Stumble even more, so a $5 investment is nothing. And there is nothing saying that you can’t use the same image in more than one post, or on multiple sites.

Let me know what you think.

I have finially taken the leap and upgrade Wordpress on this site to 2.3.1. Yeah I know….it is about time, I am actually still behind some but I have some other things that have to come first, like getting this site looking better.

I am thinking about starting out with something similar to what is over at Bluenoser Poker, maybe make two columns on the right, or just widen the first one. I really like the VERY clean look.

I will be working on this for the next little while and plan to have it up and running by the end of the week.