The Puma Press blogs aggregation web site sports a new design for displaying the highlights of the weekly blogs posted by the journalism students at Paradise Valley Community College. More coming, soon, on blog aggregation web sites. Posted in Blog Design Tagged: aggregation, Puma Press Blogs
Time trackers have been more and more popular these days in different ways if you choose to use them on your computer at home or at work. These applications allow you to have a general view over the activities performed in a specific day and see the achievement level. Here is a list with the most us ...
I’ve been reflecting today upon the long term nature of having a business that makes money from blogging. I am regularly asked by bloggers in their start up phase why they are not earning enough money from their blogs to go full time. While I usually can find a variety of reasons – in the majority o ...
It’s Monday. The weekend is over; it went by so quickly… it always does. However, I have a feeling that this is going to be a GREAT week for all of us!! It’s in the air! Mondays I like to share a little about my design work, thus the title “Design Monday.” Today I’m going to share “what I’m cookin’” ...
If you have the habit of visiting social bookmarking sites you probably know how popular web design related stories are. Every single day you can find a list with “the best collection of free textures,” “free icon sets,” “examples of stunning typography” and so on. I do believe that design is an imp ...
Sure you can sift through 1,000 of free Wordpress templates, but nothing compares to a custom blog design that differentiates your company or matches your existing website. Recently a past client of mine recontacted me for a custom Wordpress blog design, as an effort to help promote and expand her o ...
I was thinking about changing our blog faces. I was thinking of using a photo, then pumping it through a photoshop filter. What do you think of these? please vote your preference… if we go for the monochrome ones, perhaps each person could have a different colour.
Step 5: Style Your Image with CSS Remember that class we inputted into the code for our image? We can use that to style our image in the style.css template file. In my case, I wanted the pictures aligned to the left of the post excerpts with a border wrapped[...]
Step 4: Integrating TimThumb with Our WordPress Theme Now, we need to tell our theme that it needs to use TimThumb to display our images. This step requires PHP (Hypertext Preprocessor). PHP allows us to create dynamic content on our website. By “dynamic,” I mean the content changes depending on[... ...
Step 3: Add Image to Post Using Custom Fields Ever noticed that “Custom Fields” box on the “Edit Post” page in WordPress? Don’t be scared of that area! The “Custom Fields” box is a powerful and easy way to add special features to posts, such as podcasts and images. If[...]
