Background textures and images can add great interest to a web design, transforming flat background colors into something with more interest which draws the eye and completes the overall stylistic qualities you envision.
When designing for the web, whether this be your latest blog makeover or a free template you will offer to your readers, chances are you’ll be on the look-out for some stylish backgrounds to use in your design.
In this article, I’ll share my top ten favorite resources for free background textures and patterns which you can use for…
WordPress Superstar Joost de Valk has posted a quick and easy way of grabbing your feedburner count and displaying it on your blog. If you are using WordPress then you may already be aware this can already be achieved through the plugin FeedCount however this method will give you much more control over how you display your count.
All you need to do is add the PHP code to your blog template (eg. sidebar or footer etc) and remember to replace feedburner id with your blogs feedburner unique id. For example, for this blog…
Last Wednesday, I finished up the series entitled Internet Marketing: How to Tell When to Start Spending Money to Make Money Online. However, there was so much more to say so this week I’ll be addressing some issues that readers raised.
To recap, as the title suggests, the series addressed when new and/or cash-strapped internet marketers should consider spending money to make money online. As a freelance writer and self-publisher of ebooks, I used my business as a sort of mini case study; an example, if you will.
One of the…
Over the last few weeks I’ve written about using jQuery with your WordPress site. At the time I wrote saying to load jQuery use a script tag. During this past week Gary brought the WordPress function wp_enqueue_script() to my attention.
The wp_enqueue_script() tag allows you to inform WordPress which JavaScripts to load much more efficiently.
Register a Script
If you want to use one of your own scripts ie. a script not already available within WordPress, then you need to register the script, which can be done using the same tag. You can also tell WordPress…
How would you like to sales without overselling to your readers? Will you be happy when you make a sale and your reader thanks you for referring to it?
You probably read my previous posts about overselling. The first one asked you whether you are overselling and the second one was about the five warning signs of overselling. So you know how to find whether you are overselling or not. Let’s take one further step and find how to be a good blogger and still make sales. And let me tell you…
Do you set goals for your blog? When I started blogging, I didn’t. Now I do. Goals have made all the difference for me.
Four years ago I began blogging because I needed to write. I had been home with my kids for four years and hadn’t written a single thing other than a grocery list. It wasn’t that I didn’t want to write, I just didn’t have the time. Given the choice of writing or taking a shower, I opted for the shower.
Those early blogging days were just me putting…
