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Customize Your Own WordPress Theme

Published July 18th, 2007 in Blogging, Design

An increasing number of businesses and website owners are using blogs as a means of communication with their customers and website visitors. If your business already has a website it is possible to have a blog that matches the look and feel of your existing website without doing a complete re-design and without paying thousands [...]

Get Your Blog Reviewed

Published in Links

Chris Garrett recently launched the Authority Blogger forum, a place for bloggers of all kinds to network and communicate with each other. The 1,000th message was posted just a week after being launched, a pretty impressive accomplishment.
If you haven’t already been to the Authority Blogger forum, register and get involved today. There’s an introduction [...]

The True Costs of Designing Your Own Website

Published July 17th, 2007 in Design

Having a website designed for your business can be expensive. After looking at the prices of getting a website professionally designed, some business owners consider creating their own website to save money. However, there are a few costs to consider if you are thinking of designing your own website.
1 – The Cost of Lost [...]

Developing User-Focused Websites

Published July 15th, 2007 in Design

The success of any website ultimately hinges on its users. Without visitors a website will be unable to produce value for its owners. As a result, users should be the focal point of web development efforts.
The key to developing user-focused websites is being aware of what your visitors/users will be looking for, and then providing [...]

Weekly Links

Published July 12th, 2007 in Links

19 Ways to Get More Traffic to Your Site Using Google Images from Dosh Dosh covers many techniques that are unknown to most webmasters and internet marketers.  Google image search is constantly being used more and more.  Follow these tips to get some of that traffic for your site.
Single Line CSS from Ordered List explains [...]

Extensive CSS List: 134 Top CSS Resources

Published July 11th, 2007 in Uncategorized

Reference:
Official homepage of CSS – http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/
Official documentation of CSS – http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/
CSS web standards – http://www.webstandards.org/learn/external/css/

Tools:
Validator from W3C (Editor’s Choice) – http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/
CSS redundancy checker – http://infovore.org/archives/2007/07/06/the-css-redundancy-checker/
CSS formatting and optimizing tool (not a validation tool) – http://www.cleancss.com/
CSS Optimizer – http://www.cssoptimiser.com/
CSS Analyzer (a validator plus) – http://juicystudio.com/services/csstest.php
CSS Mate: CSS editor – http://cssmate.com/csseditor.htm
CSS Compressor (still in development, may [...]

Effective Time Management for Bloggers

Published July 10th, 2007 in Blogging

Running a blog can require a lot of time, and most bloggers have only a limited amount of time available. Good time management can make these few hours very productive. Time management concepts are nothing new, but bloggers face unique challenges that demand a specialized approach to the subject.
In this article we’ll be taking a [...]

Everything You Need to Run a WordPress Blog

Published July 8th, 2007 in Blogging, SEO

Of the major blogging platforms, WordPress has the most resources available to its community. WordPress users have access to thousands of themes, plugins, articles and tutorials that make it the most customizable and flexible option for bloggers. Because there are so many resources out there it is sometimes hard to know what is available [...]

Weekly Links

Published in Links

Here are links to some of the articles and resources that we have appreciated this week:
Blogging:
Organizing Tips for Bloggers from Freelance Switch 
Getting Your Website Off to a Flying Start – Use a Blog, Kickstart Your Domain from Yack Yack 
RSS-to-Email Comparison Review from ProBlogger
10 Blogging Hats from Chris Garrett 
How to Sell a Blog for More than [...]

New WordPress Blogs: 12 Steps to Set Up for Success

Published July 6th, 2007 in Uncategorized

WordPress is one of the most popular blogging platforms because of its flexibility, features, and its search engine-friendly structure. However, in order to get the most out of WordPress there are several actions that new bloggers should complete. Some are SEO-related, some are time savers, and others will help you to reach a larger audience.
1 [...]

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