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Design

How I Achieved Blogging Success In 30 Days

by Wayne Howard September 2, 2010
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When the doors to a new blog are opened, usually you don’t have a bunch of people waiting outside to run in. Well, this is exactly what appears to have happened with my blog.

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Top Web Hosting Companies for Blogs

by Tia Peterson August 18, 2010
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One of the things people ask me all of the time is where to buy web hosting for their new blogs. In a massive sea of web hosting companies, how do you choose the right one? I have been developing websites since 2001 when I was still in college. Back then, I used a company [...]

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Two Cents Tuesday: Blog Design is a Woman’s Prerogative

by Tia Peterson July 6, 2010

Notice something new? Hint for the guys: I did NOT get a new hair cut. Ah, yes. Yet another  change. Chalk it up to growing pains. A couple of weeks ago, I stumbled across a blog and the blogger was using the same exact avatar I had been using in her blog design. It was [...]

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Blogger Q Answered: Is it worth changing themes to fit additional widgets?

by Tia Peterson May 17, 2010

This question was submitted by Irene Saiger of Bamitbach: Sharing Food and Memories with Friends and Family While reading this, some things you might think about are: Is your existing theme helping you out at all? Is your sidebar wide enough to fit widgets that you need or want? Have you recently changed your theme [...]

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How to Create an Elegant Food Blog: 8 Tricks from Fantastic Foodies

by Tia Peterson April 29, 2010

Top food blogs are elegantly displayed with tons of visuals. These 8 food blogs do a fantastic job at presentation and engagement. I’ve included links to the blogs, as well as information about what platforms they are on (Blogger or WordPress) and how you can do the same thing on your blog. Not just for [...]

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Common Sense Blogging: 4 Design Principles that Transcend Time

by Tia Peterson April 26, 2010

This post is the fourth in the  series. Website and blog design is trendy, isn’t it? Just like hairstyles and jeans. And like any good shopping mall, the Internet presents a huge variety of outfits for your blog. Some really stink, though. They just break all the rules of good design, and what’s worse is [...]

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8 Minute Post – Becoming Un-boring

by Tia Peterson April 16, 2010

Check that – actually in 7 minutes now, I have a call I need to get on. So I want to see if I can get this out in 7 minutes. And counting. 6 now. Includes finding a Flickr pic to go with it. — Tia Peterson

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Beware of the never-ending scrolling home page…

by Tia Peterson March 23, 2010

You may not have noticed how long your home page is. Take a minute to go look at it. Does it seem to go on forever? How often do you think people actually scroll all the way to the bottom to see that new ad or badge you’ve displayed in the sidebar, or – even [...]

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