Criticize the site you’re guest-blogging on. Yea, that’s smart (not really). What better way to help the main author, the blog, and the readers than a review? (I’m sure there are better ways, not to mention less lazy ways.)

The following review of BloggingTips.com will help you make more money…somehow.

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Kevin is pretty slick with the 728×15 Google Adsense ad unit. It’s right next to the main navigation bar so you might get tricked into clicking it, which would earn BloggingTips.com some moola. However, Kevin’s slick integration doesn’t take advantage of accidental…

Recently i have noticed a growing trend of designers and ‘would be’ designers selling blog themes through web development forums. I’ve seen a lot of grabage getting sold but i’ve also saw some cracking designs. If you want a unique design for your blog and don’t want to spend between $300-$2000 to get a unique design then buying a blog theme through a community is definately something you should consider.

As i said, i’ve seen a lot of garbage being sold but hopefully this guide will help you decide which themes…

If you design your own blog theme or even if you just do some minor modifcations, its very important to have a test area for you to mess around with new ideas and changes to your design.

It’s also very important for doing updates to your blog software.

Messing around with the design or the code of a live site can cause you a lot of problems if something doesn’t turn out right. Adding a link or doing something basic is fine however messing around with the css code or adding some…

I posted an explanation of how Margins and Padding works in CSS earlier tonight.

I thought it would be good to expand on Margins to show how they can shape your blog theme.

What better example than the Funky Red theme i designed for Blogging Tips to show you how margins can work.

Blogging Tips Funky Red Margins

I set the main frame at a size of 1000 pixels. I use to always set my websites at a size of 770 pixels to accomodate 800×600 resoultions. However, with monitors coming down in price over the…

If your coming form an HTML background you’ll have an idea of how margins and padding work in CSS.

Margins define the distance between a property and everything around it.

Padding defines the distance between a property and the content within it.

Margins

You can define margins by pixel length or percentage. You have the option to define all margins as the same length, the oppposing margins as the same length or individually define top, right, bottom and top.

So if you wanted to define a margin of 10 pixels all around the element you…