Archive for Blog Design
Why Serious Bloggers Should Transition From Blogger to WordPress
A prospective client recently asked me about transitioning from a Blogger-hosted blog to a WordPress one …
Here’s the number one reason I think all serious bloggers should transition from Blogger to a WordPress blog, hosted on your own custom domain name: OWNERSHIP, FLEXIBILITY AND CONTROL
Ok, so that’s three … but since I think they are […]
How to Paste Text From Microsoft Word Into WordPress Blog
If you’ve been using WordPress for long, you know that if you try to simply copy and paste something from Microsoft Word into WordPress, you’ll get a big mess … your theme (aka template) will get messed up … if you’ve used colors or different fonts in the Word document, you’ll see all shades of […]
I’m Featured in Penelope Trunk’s Coachology
One of my clients - Yahoo! Columnist Penelope Trunk - recently featured me in her regular Coachology post section.
As part of the post, I offered to help redesign the blog of one of her readers …
The winner was Sheryl Sisk Schelin of The Inspired Solo.
Sheryl, who is an attorney, seeks to offer “guidance, […]
Design or Content: What’s More Important
Daniel’s got Mark Goush of Weblog Tools Collection (an outstanding site for WordPress stuff) and EngTech facing off over at Daily Blog Tips today. One of the questions he asked them was: “What is more important, the content or the design?”
Mark’s answer was:
Both. Design and content are both responsible for bringing users back to your […]
On Creating Blog Spillover Success
It’s been neat over the last year to watch my traffic on my various blogs … including the most trafficked blogs and how, as I have interlinked them, the traffic spills over to the others.
Of course, spillover traffic on each blog isn’t 100 percent … not even close. But there is a smaller, but healthy […]
My Latest Blog Redesign: Church Communications Pro
The blog that started it all — Church Communications Prp — just got a much needed facelift that more accurately reflects my design “flair.”
Here are some of the features I built into this new blog design:
Clean, fresh look
Focus on content and blog posts
Tabbed top menu navigation
Cross browser compatability
A linkblog in the sidebar — called […]
Six Answers On Blog Design Success
Brian tagged me … and he’s one of my best friends online and has been an incredible influence and encouragement to me as a blog designer … so here’s answers to the questions floating around about designing success as a designer.
I’m going to answer these questions strictly with my blog designer hat on … and […]
Color Schemes of the 10 Most Popular Blogs and Color Matching Resources
Design Meltdown lists the 10 most popular blogs and gives their color schemes.
Also, if you’re looking for some color ideas, check out ELogoDesign’s Complete Color Matching Guide.
