Here’s a new series for you: How to make your blog not suck.

First up in the series is plugins. You can easily make your blog not suck and your readers not hate you by getting rid of all of those hundreds of plugins, badges, images, etc all in your sidebar and all around your blog. You should have a billion little things making the page really long and slowing down the load time. When you have a lot of junk in there it slows down browsers and just makes people get angry at you. Plus, it makes your blog suck.

Think about what value these plugins and images offer, and weight that against how much people hate you for them.

Somebody over at Surmunity started a new stock photo website and I really like it. Instead of the crazy price tags you see everywhere, each photo is only 99 cents. They are also royalty free, so you can use them for whatever you want: websites, desktop backgrounds, movies, etc. Head over to the stock photos website and check it out. There are quite a few great photos already.

Flying Sharks (excuse the language in the image, it’s funny as hell)