Written by Chris Coyier from CSS-Tricks on December 7, 2007

Most blogs use a single stylesheet to control the design of their entire site. That is where all the magic happens. If you have ever gotten adventurous and wanted to modify your theme, you have no doubt poked around in your blogs stylesheet. Obviously, this is a very important file, so you should be careful with your editing.

Make a backup first

Even if you really know what you are doing, it’s always a good plan to have a backup copy of a version of your stylesheet that you know is in good…

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Written by jblanton from Success For Your Blog on December 6, 2007

If your like a lot of Bloggers out there, myself included, you have a lot of junk sitting on your sidebar that should be gotten rid of. If not gotten rid of at least re-arranged and cleaned up a bit. The sidebar of your Blog is arguably the most valuable part of your Blog.

The problem is that you have a limited amount of space and an unlimited pool of blog stuff to put on your sidebar. Think about some of the stuff that can go in your sidebar. There…

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Written by Michael Martine from Michael Martine on December 6, 2007

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Bloggers need to accomplish projects from time to time. The problem is most of us just dive in with little thought to the process and an unclear understanding of what we’ll be doing. A project is a series of tasks that has a start date, an end date, and which produces a unique output. I’ve taught project management for several years, now. Although much of project management is overkill for a small blog, we can borrow quite a bit from it to help us…

Written by John Leschinski from Leschinski Design on December 1, 2007

Here is a step by step on the process I use to create a logo for a client, so that you can see what goes into the creative process.

Original LogoFor this client I needed to create a logo to get a better feel for how exactly I wanted to present the website. The original logo was replaced by the logo I created in the development of the website with a cleaner style. However the client retained the old logo in the end.

logo5.jpgOne of the things I did when I first started…

Written by Chris Coyier from CSS-Tricks on December 1, 2007

The WordPress Text Editor: TinyMCE

In the administration area of WordPress, the text editor that you actually type into when writing posts is actually a javascript platform called TinyMCE. By most accounts it’s a pretty nice WYSIWYG editor that really gets the job done, but it’s not without some complaints.

A common complaint amongst WordPress bloggers is the inability to space out blocks of text. You can put as many returns between your paragraphs as you want, you aren’t going to get them, and TinyMCE is to blame. Every time you press…

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Written by Mani Karthik from Daily SEO Blog on November 25, 2007

Selecting a theme/template for your bog can be a confusing process. After all, there are lot of them around in all sizes and shape. Keeping in mind a few fundamentals may help you choose the right template though.

  1. Chose a template that gives focus to content.
    There are many templates out there that are a visual pleasure but if you take a closer look at them you can see  that the content is pushed to a corner or it is not properly highlighted because there is too much importance given to other elements.Any…