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We all know how hard it is to get traffic when you first start a blog or any website.There are some things most of us fail to realize while we wait for that suddent rush of traffic - it takes time! Work N Play is my third blog and my 2 other blogs have been dead for almost a year ( R.I.P ), the sad part is those two blogs didn’t last even 2 months before I burned them to death. Why? I wasn’t getting enough traffic, was it a good enough reason to let those two babies die so early? I dont think so.

All the blogs that we regularly visit weren’t as popular as they are now at some point in time, they had to work and wait patiently for that to happen. Everything takes time, growing from a toddler to adulthood, growing from a seed to a plant and it is no different when it comes to blog or any other site for that matter. [Read more →]

Tags: Blogging, Ramblings by Ritu - 11 Comments »

Whewwwww, what a week! Let me tell you that it has been one heck of a crazy week between trying to get this blog ready and flying back and forth from Maryland visiting my family. But I did get two things I needed and wanted to do for a long time. I got this blog switched to WordPress ( Yes!!!! ) and met my family members whom I had not seen for years.

Anyways, back to the topic. [Read more →]

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Finally, the long awaited time has come, Work N Play will be going through a lot of changes this week and most of next week.

I have had a lot of concern and complain regarding my blog’s design and navigation and I am ready to change that so its easier for you to browse through this blog and find what you want in an easy manner.

This switch is going to take a while, I know I can’t wait to bring the new look out. Please be advised that although this blog wont update for this week and next week I will be filling it up with content as usual.

So here are the estimated dates for how long Work N Play will be gone:

Estimated : (Mon, Oct. 15th 2007 - Fri, Oct 26th 2007 ).

Yes, its a long time to be gone but I assure you when we come back you will be glad WNP was gone for that long as you will have a fresh new design to explore and new content to read.

Please stay with me and you will enjoy the new design and contents that will be coming up.

Thank You for your patience and support!

Tags: News by Ritu - 2 Comments »

As we all know, mobile browsing is growing in popularity by the minute. With phones like iPhone and Palm and other smart phones, browsing web through a mobile gadget has become a must for people on the go.

Most people or businesses do not seem to realize how important it is to get their mobile site ready. It probably was quite a work before, not anymore. Mofuse, a service that lets you turn your site into a mobile ready site is one of the most simple service I have used.
The process is simple, you log into your account and just follow the instructions like, add your URL and Page title and RSS feed ( if your site supports RSS feeds , if not you can skip this and still be able to creat one ). You can also add header images and choose different colors for your mobile site.

Now the part that might make you a little hesitant, when you get your site ready for the mobile devices, your URL won’t be the same as you would use on your browser. You have to pick an ‘id’ which integrates with mofuse’s Url and that now becomes the URL for your mobile site. For example:- the URL to this blog is http://www.worknplay.net/ and the URL for the mobile site created using Mofuse is http://m.mofuse.com/worknplay.

Besides that I think this service is very helpful for people who want to get their blogs or websites mobile ready. It’s a free service so using their URL for your site wouldn’t hurt much, as long as your site is not something people use excessively through their mobile phones and other mobile gadgets.

Why do you need this? Try opening your site on a mobile device and see how long it takes and how hard it is to navigate. Now create a mobile site using this service and see the difference. Share your comments here and lemme know what you think. Also this site is still in private Beta and I had an opportunity to get an invite. If you guys would like to try it out please leave your email address on the comment and I will send you an invite.

Last Post Top Commenter: Mitch

Tags: Reviews, Tools, Websites by Ritu - 2 Comments »

Here’s a secret, sometimes a way to find sites is to just type it in on the search box and see what it comes up with. I tried it and here is the result. Sitting on my computer trying to find a new site or service I thought about a chat “slang”- LOL and there it was, a site - http://www.lol.com/

This site does exactly as the name suggests, Makes you LOL ( Laugh Out Loud ), well most of the time. It contains jokes of all kinds, funny as well as the one’s that you might find scratching your head to understand what it really means.

I found the site to be pretty fun as it had something to keep me clicking the ” Tell me another ” button. Also if you wanna check out the development of this site you can check out their blog. The site’s layout might be a bit of a turn off since its simple but like the saying goes ” Don’t judge a book by its cover ” this site can provide you with hours of laughter when you are feeling down, so go ahead and LOL!

A quick note:At Work N Play, every commenter from the previous post will get a chance to get a link to one of their articles from their blog if they have one. One commenter will be chosen to get a link on the next post depending on their comment ( how thoughtful and related to the post it was ). So go ahead and read the posts, make comments and get a chance to get your links up on every post. Last Post Top Commenter :- Whimspiration

Tags: Fun, Internet, Websites by Ritu - 7 Comments »

ProductWiki resembles Wikipedia in the sense it offers exact same service but for product reviews. On this site, each user can review products and add their own reviews or edit reviews submitted by other users.

So, in a nutshell this site allows you to look at products that are reviewed by consumers, like us so you can get unbiased opinion and facts from other users. Also the reviews are divided into categories which makes it much easier to find a particular review on. Each product has a brief description which is followed by user edited pros and cons.

I found this site to be very informative as reviews come out from general users and not through sponsored results, which most of the time are biased. Think about it, if somebody wants to put an ad on my blog, I would be somewhat biased towards their products as they are paying for their ad to run on my blog. I loved this site and will be visiting regularly to see what people have to say about products that I am interested in, what about you?

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