By Nicole Dominguez on July 8, 2010
WordPress is a very popular blogging platform that runs millions of blogs. But, what if it doesn’t meet your needs? Just because tons of people use it doesn’t mean it will be right for you. Here are 7 solutions to help you find your own advanced blogging solution. These CMS’s (Content Management Systems) will offer [...]
Posted in Resources | Tagged blog, blogging, cms, drupal, free, textpattern, tools, tumblr, Wordpress
By Darren on July 7, 2010
I’ve just finished the process of selling one of my sites. It was the first time I ever sold a website and, in the process of doing that, I’ve learned some very important lessons.
One of the hardest parts when you already found a buyer is transferring the website to the buyer with very small downtime. [...]
Posted in Development | Tagged blogging, hosting, Migration, tips, transfer, tricks
By Ryan Turki on May 3, 2010
Blogging has been growing in popularity since a couple of years. It started out as a way for people to publish their thoughts online, and for others to comment on them. What started as a few sentences of thought and personal opinion has evolved into thousands and thousands of articles and posts about anything. As [...]
Posted in Development | Tagged blog, blogging, ideas, Money, tips
By Dainis Graveris on April 15, 2010
People have been talking for a long time about numerous list posts repeating each other, but the same is about blog designs. Even if blog design is unique it still has same consistent sidebar, CSS image, text styling and standard navigation repeating each time when new article is published.
I usually compare blogging with journalism, because it’s the same thing..and [...]
Posted in Inspiration | Tagged art-direction, blogging, Design, Inspiration, trends
By Dainis Graveris on April 12, 2010
This is my first ever made *.pdf e-book and I was very excited to see how many people will respond to my call and how their actual answers will sound like.
Purpose of this Questions and Answers Interview e-Book was to explore and compare how experienced and well-known bloggers/designers think, how they organize their workspace, solve their problems, get inspiration [...]
Posted in Development | Tagged blogging, Design, download, e-book, free, guide, Inspiration
By Cosmin Lupsan on April 8, 2010
First of all, for those who don’t have a clue about SEO practice should understand that SEO (Search Engine Optimization) is actually more than just a simple technique to increase traffic and sell products or services. In fact SEO represents a science. The most important and effective science existing on the internet.
Of course, SEO is [...]
Posted in Development | Tagged blogging, Development, seo, tips
By Nikunj Tamboli on April 7, 2010
Redesigning is kind of new trends with blogs. As Smashing Magazine, Mashable & larger number of other blogs are redesigning their blogs with some stunning new looks & user experience. I noticed that old design of these blogs was also good & that made me think that people can use their old designs in more [...]
Posted in Design | Tagged blog, blogger, blogging, Design, old design, redesign
By Dainis Graveris on April 4, 2010
As you may notice 1stwebdesigner has started to change a lot throughout past few months. We will also start to cover Design Community news and do monthly (maybe weekly in future) reviews of top design links, articles, websites. Now you may find it all only by reading your feed regularly, checking Twitter daily and being [...]
Posted in Development | Tagged 1stwd-links, blogging, coding, news, webdesign
By Saad Bassi on March 20, 2010
Firefox is currently the ultimate choice for bloggers because of its awesome collection of addons. These addons provide a lot of flexibility by reducing the necessity of separate tools for different tasks of blogging. This saves a lot of time required in managing different tools and thus increases the overall productivity of Blogger. In [...]
Posted in Resources | Tagged addons, blog, blogging, firefox
By Dainis Graveris on January 10, 2010
If you are blogger and since now it’s like trend – everybody is blogging, you should know, writing through WordPress Rich Text Editor isn’t that fastest and easiest way. Most importantly you must think about ways how to automate and fasten your work process. Choosing desktop blogging client is one of the most important aspects [...]
Posted in Development | Tagged blogging, commercial, desktop, editor, free, software, windows, Wordpress