Articles Tagged 'blog'
55 Really Creative And Unique Blog Design Showcase: Inspiration
Dainis GraverisThere are millions of blogs around the world, so it's really a challenge to stand out with unique design. Maybe somebody will tell, that all matters is content, but I strongly disagree. Right now, my own blog design looks quite miserable, so I really know that matters. If you leave professional look and feeling you'll convert one time visitors into long-run subscribers so much easier. This time I wanted to showcase really successful and creative blog designs I found through a lot of searching and comparing to give necessary inspiration for you, and actually for myself too a little bit. I divided all 55 blog designs in three categories - Dark Design Showcase 1-10, Colorful and Very Creative Design Showcase 11-45 and Clean And Elegant Design Showcase 46-55. Hope You enjoy this one!
20 New, Useful And Promising WordPress Plugins
I feel like now everybody knows and uses all those popular plugins, which everybody mention on their blogs and repeat many times without big sense. That's one of the reasons why I wanted to feature not so well known, totally new or just useful plugins you've probably never seen before. All plugins are very carefully picked, this is absolutely not some random list. I also added WordPress site monthly download statistics to let you know how popular these plugins are, but don't underestimate new plugins. Just scroll through the list and maybe you'll get several new features on your blog to make life easier. Hope you like this!
30 Most Valuable Digg Tools You Should Use Daily
Digg is one of the best and the biggest social network right now. If you know how to treat it, you can get amazing floods of traffic regularly. However using just their homepage and simple techniques always aren't enough. Do you know what's hot now, how many of your friends digg your stories, actual trends and many other analysis about Digg? These trends always continue to change so you need several tools to keep up. And this is place where this article comes handy - I carefully tested many tools and then selected the most usable ones I enjoyed and I hope this research will help you too. Also I am using Firefox, Wordpress and Greasemonkey in regular basis, so on this list you will find a bunch of plugins and scripts too.
110+ Massive WordPress Video Tutorial Collection
On this list You'll find all available WordPress video tutorials on Internet with a lot of links for every level of knowledge. Video screencasts in my opinion teach You skills a lot faster than the best book You can find. In future You should check for updates on those sites, because WordPress is rapidly growing, but sites offering such great video screencasts stay and update. Get Yourself busy and good luck, I really hope these links will help Your development process!
The Best And Fastest Way To Create Blog Post
I've tested many different ways and weblog clients to create blog posts more effectively, but know I seem to find the best way and I wanted to share it with You. Maybe technique will seem very simple to experienced bloggers, but at least for me it was something I wasn't aware at start and found out just by testing. At first I would suggest to use any desktop editing program, because coding article by hand in my opinion takes too much effort, which is not worth it really. I have been using Windows Live Writer for some time, where I like to get automatic SpellCheker, but now I am sticking to another free weblog client BlogDesk. In my opinion these are the best choices if You're using Windows ( I don't know how about Mac).
How To Create Your Permalink Structure More User And SEO-friendly
Okay, this time it will be just a small tip, I see many people do not know about. I must say this tip is for WordPress blog users, I don't know what kind of system is in other blogs. So what am I talking about?? Every WordPress blog user should use and customize their permalink structure. What permalink means and stand for? Permalinks are the permanent URLs to Your individual blog posts, categories, archives and others. It is URL that follows after Your web site address for example I use (example.com as web site front page address) - example.com/follows-permalink-address. You see?
130 WordPress Plugins You Could Ever Need: The Best Of: Part 2
This is Part 2 of these article series - again I needed to separate those articles, otherwise I couldn't post them online. So here is continued list with reminding half of plugins. And You've got also bonus plugins at the end of the post..well not really bonus, but I didn't find these mentioned everywhere else, but these are really worth checking out! So enjoy the list and feel free to add more plugins, if you know any! And yes..thanks for patience and hopefully You'll find these useful!
130 WordPress Plugins You Could Ever Need: The Best Of : Part 1
WordPress plugins are really great thing, because You even don't need to know something about coding to install and use really great features, You've seen in professional blogs. So this list is separated in parts, so You can easier catch plugins You are interested in. If You're interested for example in SEO, just check out SEO part and get the best plugins there are optimizing Your blog. With thee plugins I think You shouldn't need to worry about plugins for some time.
The First Month Of 1stwebdesigner
Hey! I wanted to check in with You, guys! Today is the first month of my website existence. I want to really say thanks to my loyal readers - for now I got 132 RSS readers - I really appreciate that You spend Your time reading and checking out my articles! Without You I am nothing! Why I started to blog? Main reason was - I read many articles and sites, where other people say that blogging is the best thing happened to them. I thought why shouldn't I give it a try! And yes, I totally agree - I started blogging and that's one of the best things happened to me, even if it's only the first month :)
