Congrats on the prize and the other real prize, guesting for Darren on Problogger.net … good on you as they say down under.

Now I’m catching up with my Monday chores by Thursday AM my time, but hey at least I am doing them.

I left you a post that was too cryptic, verbose, or both and you answered with the part I needed anyway, thanks.

I was looking for contributor guidelines … I still don’t see that link working on your home page. Your web designers work is lovely … but you or s/he should do some usability testing. In your four big navigation logos when one sees a logo that says “Read”: one expects to click on it and start reading the blog. Instead you have to look through a list of current posts … luckily I remembered it was Monday, or try to figure out what category the post should be under. Just a small point.

The part of my post that was very confusing was the reference to something you had popping up called “Mr. Linky” I believe.

It was/is intrusive
Confusing … why was it asking for my URL and what did it propose to link it to?
And dumb … asking people to provide their URL and then rejecting them because they didn’t prepend their URL with “http://” is sooo not 2007.

I didn’t see it today, so perhaps it’s gone forever.

Hope this is more clear, thanks for writing and for reading my rambles.

@ Robyn – Yes, I have to chunk like that for the stuff I’ve avoided for a long time. Thankfully, I don’t think I have any big projects like that hanging over my head anymore – but I certainly had to use that approach when I was still unpacking boxes 6 months after we moved!

@ Char – No worries on being late – if it works for you even three days later, at least it works!

@ Easton – Get to WORK!!

DO IT NOW NOW NOW. There ya go – if you need any motivation!

Can users submit tasks for you to do for them if you don’t get your things done? You know – for motivation?

At one point I got backlogged and couldn’t even face some things. But by actually doing for a short time like 20 minutes, something happened and it really made me feel good – so I would do another bite sized piece next day.

http://www.emomsathome.com/blog/article-submission-guidelines-for-emoms-at-home/

Does that get rid of your confusion?

Hello, who types the http:// in front of their URL when they don’t have to as dictated by programmers who aren’t user oriented. The applet or whatever it is already _knows_ what needs to be there, so … prepend it, dad gumb it!

Now, back to the comment I wanted to leave … there’s a very interesting choice right up in your first “organization block” … I love the layout idea, by the way, alleging to lead to Article Submission Guidelines. It appears to be broken.