When people first start off blogging, one of the early questions is a simple one: “Where do I get photos?” For bloggers, old and new, choosing photo is really a dicey proposition. There are a lot of difference licenses for photographs, and unless you have a law degree, it’s a little tough to parse out […]
5 Keys for a Successful Site Redesign
The time has come and it can’t be put off any longer. You need to update your site’s look (and hopefully you have more than five hours to do it in). Whether your existing theme isn’t compatible with newer versions of your content management system (CMS), your layout isn’t isn’t capable of keeping up with […]
How to Be a Great Blogger in 5 Not-So-Easy Steps
If you’re taking the time to start or maintain a blog, you probably want it to be good. You certainly don’t want to invest your time, energy and effort into creating something that’s mediocre or outright bad. But blogging isn’t easy, in fact, it is incredibly difficult, requiring seemingly endless amounts of creativity, dedication and […]
What Haunted House Sites Can Teach Bloggers
Halloween is less than a week away and it’s officially crunch time for all things horror-related. If you celebrate Halloween, there’s a good chance that you are either looking to or already have checked out a haunted attraction in your area. But while haunted houses and other haunted attractions can be a good and scary […]
15 Awesome WordPress Home Pages
WordPress, which was just released in version 3.2, has always been at the forefront of creative design and we continue to see many great WordPress designs. Too often WordPress designs are immediately recognizable because of the linear, blog home page. For this entry we looked for greatly designed home pages of sites using WordPress. OctavoDesign […]
Blogging Pitfalls: How to Create or Find Your Blog’s Identity
Very quickly, if I visit your blog, will it stand out and be memorable to me? Will it separate itself from any of the sixty blogs created in the last minute? What about any of the more than 86,000 that will be created today? What about the more than half a million created this week? […]
Blogging Pitfalls: 7 Ways Your Blog May Impose On Your Visitors
Imagine, for a moment, that you were invited over to a friends house to watch a movie or catch up on their news. However, instead of giving you what you went for, they bombarded you with advertisements you didn’t want, practically shoving them in your voice and begging you to read them. Then, when you […]
Multi-colored Titles Plugin by PixoPoint
Add Span Tags to Tiles: a rather interesting plugin by Ryan Hellyer of PixoPoint. The plugin does little but what it does might be useful designers and fans of technicolor sites.
Blogging Pitfalls: Why You Need to Know HTML & CSS
It wasn’t that long ago that starting up a website required a great deal of expertise, time and commitment. There was a reason that those who created sites in the early days of the Web were stereotyped as “dorks” and “nerds”, it was because you had to know HTML, the ins and outs of site […]
154 Free Monochrome Developer Icons
WPZoom released a free set of icons for designers and developers. The icons are designed by David Ferreira and available in .PNG, .AI and .PSD format. The icon set features most common icons, also social media buttons, and is rather complete for most uses. A preview of the set posted below. The set can be […]