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WordPress Plugins for Blog Layout, Formating, and CSS Designs
If you want to change the look of your WordPress Theme, you can edit the Theme’s stylesheet. There are a variety of tools to help you. I’ve featured a lot of them in this Month of WordPress Plugins...
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Blog Challenge: Top Ten Blog Interface Designs
Business Logs offers “The Web’s Best Interface Design” websites, and I thought I’d challenge you to: List Your Top Ten Best Interface Designed Blogs As part of my ongoing blogging challenges, I want...
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Should You Design Your Own Blog?
A while ago, a popular blogger, asked me to review his blog design for improvements. Just so you know, I do this for a living, and my review isn’t cheap. I gave him my review, pointing out the flaws,...
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Blog Design: The Nature of Fonts
While content sells your blog to its audience, the readability isn’t just based on the words, it’s also based upon the letters. The fonts you choose to design your website or blog can make or break...
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Top 9 Javascripts for Your Website or Blog Design
Code Coffee’s Top 9 Javascripts for Your Website is worth a look if you are using the full version of WordPress. However, be sure and take a look at how to use Javascript in WordPress before you...
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Blog Design: How Many Columns?
Mark from Weblog Tools Collection offers Two or Three Columns?, his perspective on how many columns a blog should have. I personally prefer one column themes with a minimal second column. Most...
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Blogging Tips Book: Best Blog Design Elements
The following excerpt is from Blogging Tips, What Bloggers Won’t Tell You About Blogging by Lorelle on WordPress. The ideal blog design is one that: Downloads in less than 10 seconds. Never requires...
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Is Your Blog Design Holding You Back?
In a guest post on ProBlogger, Wendy Piersall from eMoms at Home wrote Is Your Blog Template Holding You Back? In the first few months of blogging, there was SO much to learn. I figured that SEO was...
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Weekly Digest: Guest Blogging on Problogger, Prejudice, WordPress News and...
The Weekly Digest from Lorelle on WordPress this week features guest blogging on Problogger, some great feedback on some posts I’ve written recently, more wonderful reviews and recommendations of my...
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Could It Be? Your Blog Design Really Matters?
In Does Your Blog Design Matter?, Instigator Blog’s Ben Yoskovitz asks you if your blog design is as important to you as it should be: The beauty of blogging is that you can always change things,...
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Blog Exercises: Choose an Appropriate Gravatar for Your Readers
All WordPress sites have Gravatars integrated into the core. Gravatars are Globally Recognized Avatars, images that represent you in blog posts comments, featured author images (integrated with...
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Blog Exercises: The Welcome Page
One of the many things I’d like to see gone on the web is the Welcome front page. Think about it this way. You invite friends over for a party. You greet everyone at the door with a full...
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Blog Exercises: Site Models
In “WordPress Site Models” I describe the three main formats for a site layout. They are static, blog, and hybrid. Each site model works for a variety of content and presentation of that content,...
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Blog Exercises: To Comment or Not to Comment
In the September 20, 2013, issue of the New York Times, an article caught my eye called “No Comments.” It is also available on Umano via mobile app or desktop for a listen. The article by Michael Erard...
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Blog Exercises: Make a List of Everything on Your Site
Today’s blog exercise will require a little time, magnifier, and a score card. Well, maybe not one of those items. I want you to grab a piece of paper and load up the front page of your site in a...
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Blog Exercises: Are You Serving First-Time or Return Visitors?
Every time I visit Feedly, Dropbox, and many other sites I think “They don’t like me.” Why? Why should something so important to so many, a tool that should be on most computers, make me feel this way....
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Blog Exercises: Trust the Crowds
In an October issue of “Science News,” an article on the “Deep Network” monitoring of the sea floor, reported on how the general public may monitor the sea floor through the Neptune system of...
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Blog Exercises: Ingredients of a Professional Site
Two questions on the same day triggered this blog exercise. I was asked by a student in my WordPress class recently what defined a “professional blog.” I told him it was one that met all the criteria...
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Blog Exercises: Taking Inventory on What Keeps You Blogging
The recent major desktop computer crash has left me reeling. I thought I had all my data backed up. For the most part, I did. What I didn’t have backed up was my programs. Getting back up to speed...
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Blog Exercises: Social Media Etiquette
If you would do it in public, would you do it online? Unfortunately for many, the answer is a resounding YES! However, most of us have some…whatever you call it…oh, yeah, class, moral fiber, manners –...
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