Tag: HEADLINES

Don't you just hate scrolling through blogs and news websites with front pages that go on for ever? Sure, scrolling with the mouse wheel, arrow keys, or Page Up and Down works, but it always feels a bit clunky. Sometimes you scroll a bit too far, or not far enough. The worst bit, though, is that annoying microsecond where your eyes have to hunt for the right block of text to read; you hit the ...

If you're not sure whether your blog's audience is responding better to keyword-heavy, all-business headlines or quirky, feature-y ones, Wordpress now lets you test two headlines for each post with a new plugin. Headline Split Tester allows you to enter two headlines for every post and automatically choose one at random for each reader. Eventually, whichever headline gets more clicks becomes the ...

Sometimes a really interesting piece of software slips through the cracks here at Download Squad head office, and we miss covering it when it was first released. Sometimes when that happens, it's worth going back and pointing out what we missed. Though it was released back in February, we have somehow up until now neglected to mention the experimental New York Times Article Skimmer, and for that ...