I am a 26 year old professional that is currently seeking a full-time employment opportunity within the Pittsburgh area. My qualifications are available for review here.
When I was 14, before companies like Coca Cola & Dell had staked their claim on the Internet, I was teaching computer/Internet classes. At 17, I founded my first start-up and have been working for myself in one fashion or another ever since.
Friends would describe me as someone who has a passion for life and works his butt off to get what he wants. Currently, I own a growing start-up company and can usually be found working remotely at a nearby Starbucks sipping a venti something-or-another. I'm on the verge of releasing some kick-ass web apps that might just put my partners and I on the map. The future holds a lot of uncertainties for me, but one thing continues to remain the same:
Truebluetitan is the driving force behind everything I do.
Truebluetitan is more than a domain name or a combination of random words. Defined as "one of prodigious size, strength, and achievement with inflexible faith and integrity", Truebluetitan has become my guiding light, providing direction towards future goals. When I'm not designing websites or providing SEO and SEM consulting to clients I turn to Truebluetitan and document the trials and tribulations that I encounter on my never-ending quest to becoming an Internet Entrepreneur.
The website as you see it now is the seventh release of Truebluetitan, and I intend to use it to provide greater insight into my projects (the ones I'm allowed to talk about anyway) and dive into the details of what it takes to start your own business and nourish it's growth.
In my eyes, I haven't "made it" yet, and as such encourage all of you to lend your insight as I travel down this path. I could certainly use some help from time to time!
Truebluetitan is here to be a motivator for me, and for you. I know that there are a lot of people out there that want to start their own business, but are afraid to take the leap. There is, and always will be something, that is holding you back from taking the ever important first step. I jumped into the entrepreneurial waters with feet first and have learned a lot of lessons the hard way, but I'm still here. I haven't drowned, and I won't. Neither will you.
Last month I asked you what you would like to see on the home page of Truebluetitan.com. At that time I was displaying an excerpt from each article on the home page and you had to click on the article heading to view the full article.
Today, I decided to see what kind of affect displaying the full articles on the home page would have. So, (for now) you won’t have to click the header to read the full article.
Like it/love it/hate it? Let me know!
Isn't there something that you want to say? The floor is yours!
From a viewing perspective, I thought the headlines looked better, but from a search engines perspective, you are much more optimized with full posts.
I vote for going back to the old system. Having full articles makes your front page look too cluttered, and it’s hard to see earlier posts unless they’re short enough.
I’ve gotten where I like the digest form on the front page of a blog. I recently switched to a magazine style theme and people seem to like it better than my old theme.
When I started my blog recently, I read up and wondered about this to. In the end I went for excerpts everywhere except on the single page. I did this for the SEO and the pages would load faster. Personally I like the digest form on the front page.
It will be interesting to see if your rss subs inc/dec as a result, but then you would have to run the experiment for a while.
Thank you for all of your feedback. The readers have spoken and the front page is now back to the excerpt version.
I am against only excerpts of articles. I think that you really should keep the full content of your blog viewable.
And if you are keeping your blog with excerpts put a read more button on each article so users can easily navigate.
My $.02
I dig the excerpts much better especially if you write them which you always do. I never take the time to do so, so I don’t use them. I wish I would, call it just being plain lazy.
I like the excerpt version better. Its cleaner , and if you want to read more you click on it.
I am sure it helps out with page impressions. I changed my setup in blogger to expandable posts, and I saw my page impressions about double over just a few days.
As a viewer, I am okay with either full article or excerpt. ;)