If you are starting out from scratch, you will probably be wondering how often you should write a new article or post a new blog. My site has been going for a couple of months now and after putting in a lot of hard work at the beginning, my other priorities have been taking over.

So you're writing a blog. You want to get your name out there. You want people to visit your site. But how do you do it? This article outlines a few sites that you can submit your articles to and get recognised. I have had success with a few of these when starting this blog and I always try and submit all of my articles to each one.

When it comes to designing and creating websites, the homepage is one of the most important pages you can create.

It acts as the "splash page" for any incoming visitors or potential customers. The first page they see cannot be boring or plain, it has to stand out. Information has to be easily accessible and not 3 - 5 clicks away.

So to try and retain those visitors and lower your bounce rate, I've suggested a few things that you might like to include in your homepage!

It really does boggle me. Yesterday, I noticed a sudden jump in the number of visitors I was receiving. I checked where they were actually going to. It turns out, over 50 people had just viewed my blog My top 5 website Layouts. I was shocked. How was there a sudden rise in the number of people reading my blog? I decided to investigate by first checking Google Search Engine Results.

Searching for "top website layouts" displayed my blog at about rank 2 in the UK and rank 6 on dot com.

You have NO idea how happy I was - it seemed all of my hard work was paying off.

I decided to leave it and come back later - just to see how many people would actually visit it. Around 6 hours later, it topped at about 350 and then began to slow down - I wondered why?

I checked the Google Search Engine Results again and to my surprise, not even on page 3! My blog post on dzone was there on page 2 but nothing about me. Why was this? From everything to nothing in about 5 hours? It slightly annoyed me but also put me in the mood to find out why - back to Google!

I've been running a copy of Ubuntu for a while now, from Feisty Fawn to Hardy to the newer 9.04 Jaunty.

I moved over from Windows at the beginning of my University life and I haven't moved back. Ubuntu has everything that I need...

- Emails are read online at Gmail
- Music is Streamed from a radio station
- Open office is used to text documents
- Firefox for web browsing
- VLC for media

There's nothing else that I really need to do...or is there?