Filed under Articles, Blog, blogger, blogging, links, maintenance, plugins, techniques, Tips, Web Design, Wordpress by Chris Spooner
Just like servicing a car, or giving your house a spring clean, WordPress really benefits from a good once-over every now and again to keep it running fast and efficiently. This post rounds up 10 useful plugins that will really help service and maintain your WordPress blog. Updating the WordPress core, updating plugins and changing [...]
Continue Reading "10 Plugins to Help Spring Clean Your WordPress Blog"Filed under Blog, Graphic design, management, Tips by Kareen Liez
Having a graphic design blog is very challenging for it is similar to having your own business. Aside from making constant posts and high quality contents, there is also a need for you to learn marketing and sales. Without knowing these things, you wil…
Continue Reading "Valuable Contents for Better Graphic Design Blog Management"Filed under Blog, Design, graphic design blog, Tips by Kareen Liez
Some people think that creating their own blog is as simple as sketching a dream web design on paper. Of course, having a blog is not just on aesthetics but there is really more to it. Millions of people worldwide create their own blogs in various nich…
Continue Reading "Tips to Create an Effective Graphic Design Blog"Filed under alternative, Articles, Blog, cms, Wordpress by Sufyan bin Uzayr
We all know that WordPress is an awesome Content Management System cum Blogging Platform. In fact, it is also the most popular blogging tool all …
Continue Reading "Ten Alternatives to WordPress as a Blogging CMS"Filed under admin, Blog, fuel, PHP, php framework by Philip Sturgeon
In the first part of this series, we took a look at the basics of the FuelPHP framework. In this second-part, we’ll be stepping it up a gear and move onto some more advanced topics! We’ll be creating an admin panel for our application, cove…
Continue Reading "Build an Admin Panel with the Fuel PHP Framework"Filed under accessibility, Blog, Coding, CSS, css3, Design, HTML, html5, semantics, standards, techniques, Tips, Tutorial, Tutorials, Web Design by Chris Spooner
Last week I posted part one of this tutorial series covering the process of creating a typography based blog design in HTML5 and CSS3. We finished off the Photoshop concept with the design based on a strict grid and text laid out in our desired typeface. Now let’s replicate the design in a static HTML5 [...]
Continue Reading "Create a Typography Based Blog Layout in HTML5"Filed under Blog, photography website, Resources, squarespace, Web Design, Website Builder by Cameron
[Editor's note: This is a sponsored review for Squarespace] Whether you want to create a blog, a brochure site, or something more involved, the platform you choose to create it on is important. There are a lot of blog and website building and hosting platforms out there, some free and some paid. There’s also a [...]
Continue Reading "Simple but powerful website building and hosting with Squarespace"Filed under Blog, Design, website by Ebrian Acebedo
Millions of people have created their own blogs and websites for it is indeed easy to create one but the challenge is how you will make it grow. There are lots of ways to expand your website but the challenge doesn’t end there. When you have succeede…
Continue Reading "The Downside of Popular Websites You Have to Prepare For"Filed under Blog, blogging, Design, Tips by Kareen Liez
Advertise here with BSAGuest posting is having a post on other people’s website pertaining to a topic that has something to do with their site. If it is a design website, you will be guest posting about design, too. This is considered to be one …
Continue Reading "10 Ways for a Successful Guest Posting"Filed under Blog, Blog Writing, blogging, Freelance Writing by FreelanceSwitch.com
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Maybe you are about to launch a blog or possibly considering how to focus your content to draw a specific customer. Content consumers – your customers – are looking for something when they come to your…
Filed under affiliate marketing, Blog, blogging, Blogs, Marketing, promotion, SEO by AndrewOwl
Are you a freelance designer? Are you interested in boosting your credibility, building your client base and increasing your number of paying projects? The answer is obvious, but knowing where and how to get started can be daunting, especially during the periods of low client work (you know what I’m talking about). Having worked with [...]
Continue Reading "Use your blog to get design jobs"Filed under Blog, enhancements, plugins, Text, Typography, Wordpress by AndrewOwl
Have you ever visited a blog and noticed immediately how the typography added sophistication and really made the content stand out? Perhaps it was an elegant typeface that fit the theme of the blog, or white space that was used proficiently throughout the layout. Whatever it was, it caught your eye, and you probably wondered [...]
Continue Reading "10 WordPress plugins to enhance your blog’s typography"Filed under Articles, Blog, design portfolio, folio, Portfolio, Tips by Preston
If you’re a designer and don’t have an online portfolio, you’re missing out on some serious potential for business. Online design portfolios are the quickest and most reliable way to convert potential clients into actual paying clients. But having a portfolio online isn’t enough in and of itself. In order to make the most of [...]
Continue Reading "Elements of a Client-Converting Design Portfolio"Filed under Blog, Freebie, Portfolio, WordPress theme by Bhanu Ahluwalia
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Blog-O-Folio is a free 2 column WordPress Theme suitable for any and all of your corporate, portfolio or personal blog needs. With a wide variety of tunable theme options and functionality to merge your portfolio with the blog, it is now ultra easy to maintain your blog and portfolio at the same time. Blog-O-Folio [...]
Continue Reading "Freebie: Blog-O-Folio WordPress Theme Version 1.0"Filed under advertising, Articles, Blog, blog advertising, blogging, Business, campaign, guide by Cameron Chapman
Blog advertising can be a great source of income for many bloggers, and a great source of customers or visitors for many businesses. Some blogs claim traffic numbers close to that of many major traditional websites, and there are blogs out there for virtually any niche or subject matter.
Whether you’re a blogger who’s trying to [...]
Filed under Blog, Layout, photoshop by Jean-Baptiste Jung
In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to design a “Premium” blog layout in Adobe Photoshop, from A to Z. If you have any questions about this tutorial don’t hesitate to ask in the comments.
Continue Reading "Creating a tech blog layout in Adobe Photoshop"