Welcome to The Base! We finally have our own place!

Before we get to the important stuff, I’ll bore you with a few basics. I’m a freelance writer/blogger and have been writing since I was an anguished teenager pouring my misery in a diary.

But we’ll save the rest of my life story for later. Till then, enjoy the other, hopefully useful content and stay tuned!

Of course this place is nowhere near complete. The header and footer are dismal, I probably made a mistake in uploading the favicon (if you’re seeing a {p}, that’s not my favicon, it came with the theme) and I need to clean up the copy of the blog too. All this will take time and I was too eager to get this place live.

Feel free to leave encouraging comments!

Without further ado, here’s a round up for new and up coming changes.

Weekly Features:

Photo Friday:

In addition to Sunday Link Overdose, I’ll be introducing Photo Friday. You’ll find out what it is on 3rd April ‘09 when the first one will go live. I hope you like it! Feedback will be extremely appreciated.

Pages:

The other change is that of additional pages. You see the 125×125 banners on the right? Those are products and services I endorse because of my experience with them. The added benefit of being an endorsement is that they get a page all to themselves. My Endorsements will be like a sales page – only with a user’s view.

Then there’s the FAQs page. I read this awesome post on Freelance Switch about the benefits of having an FAQs page on your website. It’s one of those insanely useful things to have on your website that just offer a ton of information to anyone looking for it – particularly people who may hire you.

Changes in the works:

Here are a few things that will be introduced in the following months:

Website Reviews – Probably once a month. There are no bounds to the kind of websites I’ll review. If it’s interesting and useful, I’ll review it. I will be concentrating on blogs and websites that are new and have a relatively small readership. As or if the request for reviews grow, I may be doing them more frequently.

Freelancer Gold – Possibly a once a month feature, highlighting freelancer(s) who go out of their way to help other freelancers. They won’t always be mad successful or famous. The only criteria to be featured in is that they help. 

What you can do:

Here’s the ‘call to action’ that all successful bloggers keep saying must be in a blog post to make it work.

1. Submit your websites for review

It can be a personal blog or professional blog. If you want to improve or want to know how your visitors see and perceive your virtual real estate, send it in for a review! I will be preferring lesser known blogs that really need the review for technical and promotional purposes.

I will be pointing out areas they can improve in (design and content both) and suggest places they can learn how to fix them. If it’s out of my league, I’ll be recommending someone who could help them.

2. Nominate people for freelancer gold

Unfortunately, you can’t nominate yourself. Spread some freelancer goodwill and nominate others. Those who send in a nomination will get a mention and a link to their website when their nominated freelancer is featured at The Base.

Tell us why you think your nomination should be featured. How do they help individuals? State an example of them going out of their way to help. Anything that sets them apart.

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