When’s the right time to use a Magazine-style blog theme? (4)
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Magazine style blog themes seem to be all the rage right now - with sites like TechCrunch moving to more of a magazine/newspaper style approach for their main blog pages. Even Chris Pearson has a new magazine style theme coming out soon to complement his successful Thesis Theme. So when is the right time to use a Magazine style blog theme? Smashing Magazine took a look earlier this week and offered some advice along with ...
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I used one once. Now when is the right time, really?
Scribd launches a redesign (1)
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Scribd, a popular document sharing service, has launched a redesign. TechCrunch takes a look: One of the major changes in the design is a new emphasis on search. Scribd has seen impressive growth since its launch in Spring 2007, and now claims more than 20 million unique visitors monthly. But more than half of that traffic comes from search engines - something that the site would like to change. The new design is intended to ...
WTF Blog Clutter: Are You Ignoring Your Uncategorized Category? (3)
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The WTF Blog Design Clutter continues with a look at your uncategorized category. Have you been ignoring it lately? Most blogs start life with a single category as an example called “Uncategorized”. I don’t know why or who started it, but it’s a dumb category name, especially if users don’t know they can change it from the start. It could be called General, Topics, Articles, Stories, or a lot of other non-specific labels. Unfortunately, it ...
30 Must See Comment Designs for Web Designers | Creating a blog web design blog (2)
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Comment design is an art. Comment design is often overlooked by a lot of web designers when they are designing their blog. It tends to be one of the last things a web designer works on and because of that it suffers. This list shows 30 blogs where the web designer didn’t just throw together the same old comment design and put extra effort into their comment design to make it fit with their blog ...
TechCrunch Got Redesigned (1)
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If you head over to TechCrunch, one of the largest blogs (and websites for the matter of fact) in the world, you will see that they just released a redesign. There are many interesting things to notice on the facelift. First of all they have migrated to excerpts on the homepage. I have been an advocate for that layout for a long time, and I had also predicted that most popular blogs will end up ...
10 Costly Assumptions on Web Development (11)
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I came across this article a while ago and thought that it was worth sharing with you guys. It basically covers 10 assumptions in web development that might be costing you money. The article was written with business and ecommerce websites in mind, but most points can be applied to blogs as well. The 10 assumptions are: People will know how to find your website People know what you sell Everything will go as planned ...
Summertime Family WordPress Blog Design (1)
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Dino recently completed the new design and development of Summertime Family - a WordPress powered site owned by Trudy who is a very busy mom - but finds some time in her day to share great summertime family activities and special things, just for Moms. Dino created a really stunning custom Magazine theme for Trudy’s blog. . . Unlike a typical WordPress blog, Summertime Family is laid out with their content displayed in a categorical ...
Want to blog, but can’t quite get the words out? (1)
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If you’re ready to get started blogging to build your business, we can help! Blogging is a great way to connect with customers. It lets you speak directly to them, hear their thoughts and concerns, and provide updated content that interests your customers and keeps the search engines coming back. We can not only assist you with the initial creation and design of your new blog, but we can provide ongoing support for your blog ...
周二茶闻:…Smashing Magazine专刊 (2)
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Smashing Magazine是个不错的网站, 经常会有些创新的, 实用的案例集合和guidelines. 这一期的茶闻, 我们来特别关注一下它们的文章. How to Communicate Design Decisions to Clients? 不管你是Graphic Designer还是UI Designer, 都经常要向businnes sell你的观点,设计等等. 这时候, 再创新,再漂亮, 再另类的的点子, 如果不能符合business的要求,那它们都是白费心机. Effective Design is the key. 7 Essential Guidelines for Functional Design Functional Vs Stylish? Who’s the winner?大家买手机的时候是注重外观还是实用性? 现在很多商品都一味的注重外观的华丽而忽略了实用性. A Small Design Study of Big Blogs Blog很多人都有吧, 那大家有注意过自己Blog的设计,如何才能使它更便于读者阅读呢? Part 2: Further Findings of Blogs’ Design Design Showcase of Creative Online-Shops E-Commerce在现在的经济中变的越来越重要, 几乎所有的品牌和有一定规模的商家都有自己的Online Shop. 让我们来看看一些创新的设计. Top 10 Usability Highs of Mac OS Mac OS Vs ...
10 Design Tips from Tech Soapbox (1)
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AhmedF of Tech Soapbox gives us 10 HTML tips that will help improve speed and efficiency. I say building in the sense that you could either be a theme designer creating a blog template, or you could be tweaking your existing blog for speed. For instance, Ahmed recommends you put in your content first, then other elements later. Good for SEO. Same with using proper headers and nesting these accordingly (H1, H2, H3). How about ...
Selecting Blog Design Options - Free / Premium / Custom (2)
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One of the starting steps to starting a blog is picking a blog design. There are three options that are available. Free Designs, Premium Designs, or Custom Designs. Now as you all know that I am a strong supporter of Wordpress, so examples on this post will be wordpress related only. There are pros and cons for each option. So lets review them. Free Blog Design Free themes are the ones that are available for ...
5 Methods to Enhancing Page Load (6)
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‘How do I make my page load faster?’ - it’s a question I get a bit so I thought I’d ask Aaron Brazell from Technosailor to tackle the question and offer some suggestions around enhancing page load times. “The internet is dying.” This phrase, though probably a bit sensationalist, is also not far from the truth. As we all now understand, thanks to U.S. Senator Ted Stevens, the internet is a series of tubes and ...
5 Methods to Enhancing Page Load (7)
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‘How do I make my page load faster?’ - it’s a question I get a bit so I thought I’d ask Aaron Brazell from Technosailor to tackle the question and offer some suggestions around enhancing page load times. “The internet is dying.” This phrase, though probably a bit sensationalist, is also not far from the truth. As we all now understand, thanks to U.S. Senator Ted Stevens, the internet is a series of tubes and ...
WTF Blog Clutter: How’s the Weather on Your Blog? (1)
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Let’s talk weather with our ongoing series on WTF Blog Design Clutter. Honestly, do you need a weather report on your blog? Before you answer, ask yourself if it important to someone who lives 3,000 miles away that it’s a pleasantly cloudy day in your neck of the planet? Does it help them understand what you blog about or why? If you are blogging the weather, then temperatures, humidity, and general weather status reports are ...
Images In Posts: Where to Find and How to Use Them. | Lost Art Of Blogging (18)
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Photo by alemdag Vivid images are like a beautiful melody that speaks to you on an emotional level. It bypasses your logic centers and even your intellect and goes to a different part of the brain. ~ Steve Bochco, popular TV producer. One of the most common things people e-mail me, besides the usual ‘great post’ and all, is how much they enjoyed the way I blend images, together with my writing and form an ...
WTF Blog Clutter Design: How Many Feed Icons Do You Need? (3)
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A question came up during this WTF Blog Design Clutter series asking how many feed icons to we need on our blogs. We looked at feed clutter on your blog but how many is too many and which ones do you need? How many do you think you need? The two most popular feed types are RSS and Atom. That’s it. How many feed icons do you have on your blog? Hmm? These are the ...
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Aside from being a good blogging tool, WordPress is also a lightweight content management system that can be used to run such diverse sites as news or magazine publications, personal and organizational websites. I recently started accepting paid web development work and website management. Several weeks back, I bought a domain, Tugkaran.com (from the Bisaya word for staging ground), and created a static HTML page as placeholder because I did not have time to configure ...Contribute comment
