Just before Christmas I was doing a blog design for a client. The client was a difficult one who seemingly hated to divulge any information. Anyway my fiance went into early labor (6 weeks early) and my son was in intensive care for an indefinite period (turned out to be 2 weeks). As a result of the news I simply couldn’t deal with the client or the project, even if I chose to delay the project I just did not want to think about work at that time. I set up another designer to take over the job and then explained to the client why I couldn’t deliver. When I did this it got me thinking about all the excuses I have been told by designers, programmers and freelancers over the years. Whilst I will concede every now and then

I recently installed a new theme on another blog. As with most of my blogs I was using the manual excerpts so that my home page and my category pages show a summary of the article instead of the whole article. However the new theme was not equipped to show the manual excerpt and finding a solution was far more difficult than I would of imagined.

Normally my post do not include my personal life. For one its not that interesting, but for the most part it is irrelevant to the central themes of this blog. However seeming as though this latest issue includes the death of my computer, the very platform from which this blog comes to life I wanted to get your opinions on this most heinous crime.

I am sure you have heard the phrase “traffic is gold”. In fact I would like to amend that to read “relevant traffic is gold”. But the question I have been asking myself recently, is how do I obtain more relevant traffic for my blog Scribblescratch? One option I have often contemplated, but never actually tried is a guest post on another popular and reputable blog.

As any professional athlete, businessman, investor or coach will attest, learning from your mistakes or failures is a critical component of ensuring future success. I have been online close to 6 years now and thought, a public display of the mistakes I have made as I endeavour to become a web entrepreneur will not only help me to grow, but such public humiliation may also help new webmasters avoid many of the mistakes that I have made in the past.

Reflecting on this list and publishing it, is highly embarrassing now that I view them from a different understanding.