Monthly Archives: May 2008
Page Templates – Create a Links Page
WordPress Coding & Design These days sidebars get so easily cluttered with recent posts, categories and tags, recent comments, top commentators etc. The list is endless. Throw in your blogroll and your sidebar can become longer than the page content! Moving your blogroll into its own page can keep things neater and allow you to have a longer list that doesn’t clutter up your sidebar. The way to do this is with a page template. Creating a Page Template Your theme ...
Continue readingAdd some pop!
CSS If your designing a theme with a dedicated column to the date stamp, you can take back some of that space under it and add a unique pop to your design. In the image to the right the date column is a span and the content of the article is in a div to the right of it. Because of the way it is layed out, using a span and then floating the content next to it, you have the ability to float things outside of the content and under the date stamp as ...
Continue reading3 Reasons Why You Should Write On What Is Hot
Blogging Writing posts to the blog and updating it regularly can be made a bit easy if you can catch up with the web and think of post ideas on what is hot on the web. There is so much to write about every trend and with a little thinking about the topic, you can brainstorm 5-10 post ideas. But what are the benefits of writing on what is hot? 1. People Want To Know About It If you observe the blogs, you will see that more posts are on twitter these days. ...
Continue reading9 Essential Tools For Practical Freelance Writing
Writing Writing on the Internet is becoming more and more popular these days. Working from home is a dream for many employees as they can eventually say goodbye to their jobs and enjoy work within their own four walls. Having said that, it isn’t that easy, since a freelance writer needs some tools to make his life easier and more enjoyable. It is possible to work this business on the bare minimum, but to be honest, it only makes working from home ...
Continue readingComments have not been working for the last few days – Sorry!!
Site News I was wondering last night why there hadn’t been any comments about the launch of our new design or the release of the evolution theme, particularly as traffic has been high the last few days. I was busy tweaking the design yesterday so I didn’t have too much time to look into why but thankfully Mani from Daily SEO Blog to tell me that he couldn’t leave a comment and I found the problem right away. Turns out the math comment ...
Continue readingLet your visitors suggest topics with Skribit
Blogging I came across a cool little widget on ProBlogger recently which lets your blog visitors leave suggestions for post topics. The service is called Skribit and they give you a widget to put onto your blog. This widget works in real time and allows your visitors to leave a message to tell you what they would like covered on your blog. Users can then vote on the suggegstions which have posted. It’s a simple idea but as usual, simple ideas are ...
Continue readingKeep up with your blogs while keeping your cool
Blogging You’ve taken the plunge and started a second (third, fourth or fifth) blog. Now the challenge is maintaining multiple blogs without letting any of them die of neglect. So how do you do it? Schedule your time The simplest way is to create a posting schedule and stick to it. First, write down each of your blogs and how often you’d like to see them updated. For professional blogs, this will be easy, as your clients will generally require a ...
Continue readingBloggingTips Evolution Theme Released
WordPress Themes In conjunction with our new blog design, I am pleased to announce the release of our 3rd wordpress theme (note : our first theme, blue with green, has been removed due to poor quality). The Evolution WordPress Theme is a clean, dynamic theme which we have released under the Creative Commons License. It was designed by our friends at Design Saurus and is widget and gravatar ready. The theme has been designed with a blue, red and green color ...
Continue readingBloggingTips gets a redesign
Site News I am proud to announce that BloggingTips has a new blog design From this : To this : Design Info Our previous design was based on Brian Gardner’s Revolution Theme. I liked the design however I thought it was about time the site got a new design to help distinguish it from the rest of the pack. Our new theme was designed by Design Saurus and incorporates our original logo from David Airey. The theme features : Less clutter in the sidebar ...
Continue readingBrian Gardner releases free Revolution Theme
WordPress Themes Brian Gardner recently released a free version of his popular Revolution blog theme. This is a very professional clean looking theme so I’m pleased that Brian has decided to release it. The theme is well commentated so you shouldn’t have many problems modifying it to suit your needs. He has released 3 versions of the theme : 2-Column Version (right sidebar) 3-Column Version (left/right sidebar) 3-Column Version (two right sidebars) ...
Continue reading
Recent Posts
Blogging tips writers
Blog Partners
