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Top Ten Best Selling WordPress Themes on ThemeForest
WordPress Themes WordPress continues to be one of the most popular content management systems (CMS) on the Internet and for good reason. It’s incredible versatile and, better still, it’s completely free to download to use. However, you may want to spend some money to customize your WordPress blog or website. One of the better marketplaces on the web for premium WordPress templates is ThemeForest. Looking at the current top ten best sellers, you can ...
Continue readingWhat does the new cnn.com mean for blog design?
Blogging Usability and design testing can make a huge impact on any web site. But, if you run a blog or a small web site, the costs of wide scale usability and design testing is expensive. One of the best affordable ways to improve design is to learn from those organizations that have invested in large scale testing. Sites like Amazon, eBay and CNN are often imitated for that very reason. With CNN making a major update to their home page, it is ...
Continue readingHow Often Should You Change Your Blog Theme?
WordPress Themes For better or worse, your blog’s theme is the first thing most people notice about your site when they visit. Even before they’ve read a word they’ve made judgments about your site, its appearance and its professionalism that can not be undone easily. With that in mind, many bloggers obsess over their themes almost as much, if not more, than their content. Considering how easy themes are to change out in most blogging ...
Continue readingBeta Testing Made Easy
Software & Programs Getting feedback from potential visitors to your blog or web site can be critical to the successful launch of a new site or even just a new version of an existing site. While software companies have been organizing beta test programs for years, these have been limited to larger companies with staff to manage a beta testing program. However with new web based beta testing services like Prefinery and Launchset it is now possible for a small ...
Continue readingColor Coordinate Your Web Pages
Software & Programs The Internet has made it possible for millions of people to write articles and create websites. However, the Internet has not magically provided these millions of people with writing and graphics skills. That’s one of the key reasons I love the posts about writing here on Blogging Tips. Likewise, I am really pleased with a new family of free tools that offer color coordination to those of us who were not blessed with the color ...
Continue readingInternet Marketers: How to Know When It’s Time to Change Your Blog’s Design
Making Money Most bloggers start out on free blogging platforms like blogger or wordpress. This is understandable, as very few bloggers have a concrete idea of where they want to take this “blogging thing” when they first start out. When bloggers start to get serious is when most settle in on a design – and then proceed to forget about it. But, there comes a time when the design of every blog should be changed. Following are two such instances. Your ...
Continue readingBreaking the mold: 12 remarkable Blogger designs
Blogger, Design & Coding If I were to approach the subject of designing Blogger templates, many people would moan about the repetitive, boring and dreary styles commonly associated with BlogSpot blogs. It’s time to rethink these assumptions! In recent months, many talented and creative bloggers have created amazing and beautiful designs for their Blogger powered blogs which certainly offer WordPress designers a run for their money! For your visual pleasure, here ...
Continue readingHow to Design the Perfect Blog for Your Business
Blogging As I alluded to in the post, 2 Reasons You Must Keep Blogging at Your Old Blog When You Move to Another Domain, getting a professionally designed blog hosted on your own domain is the best way to go if your blog is an integral part of your business. “But,” you may be thinking, “I don’t know anything about designing a blog. How do I know what to consider?” Following is a checklist of considerations I took into account before ...
Continue readingEffective Blog Design Tips for Successful Blogging
Design & Coding Effective blog design includes the design of a blog itself, its navigation elements, and its communication tools. Blogs have a lot of standard elements, articles, comments, categories, and archives; all of which need to be presented well within the blog template design. Those elements put a lot of constraint on what is possible with a blog design. You should be focusing on making sure your blog is easy to navigate to find the content and easy ...
Continue readingCreate a Heat Map of Your Blog
Search Engine Optimisation One of my favorite marketing blogs is Neuromarketing by Roger Dooley. Earlier this month, Roger published a post that led me to find Feng-GUI, a website that offers free heat maps of your blog, so you can learn where the hot spots are and what people are looking at on your blog. Feng-GUI is promoted as “Feng-shui for graphic user interfaces”, and it’s meant to simulate eye tracking. While it can certainly be argued that ...
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