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May 24, 2012

4 Ways to Give Your Blog a Makeover

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Although there are millions of ways to promote and tweak your blog in technical ways to ensure higher search ratings and better conversion rates, sometimes it helps to step back a bit and think of more general things you can do to give your blog a makeover. If you’ve had a blog for awhile and [...]

Tag Clouds: Prettier with Plugins

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I like placing tag clouds on my blogs’ sidebars or footers. Displaying your blog’s tags in cloud format is an easy way to point your visitors to your most popular topics. The WordPress default tag cloud appearance leaves a little to be desired however, so this article explains how to format prettier tag clouds. In [...]

How to Fix Those “Squishy” Headlines

Here the CSS trick for fixing those squished headlines on your blog such as the H1 Heading shown in the screenshot below. The original code in the CSS (cascading style sheet) for that H1 was as follows: #content h1 { font-size: 25px; color:#036; background: transparent; font-family: Verdana, ‘Trebuchet MS’, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: bold; margin: [...]

Designing the DinerDave Website

So now I have a hosting service, I’ve done my market research, and I’ve written pertinent content based on that research for DinerDave.com. Now it’s time to design the layout and look of the site. Once again I turn to Ros for recommendations on who could create a professional looking blog. WHO Will Design DinerDave.com? [...]

All New Blogs Could (and Should) Look this Good

I found the Doglirious site through a link in our Forum and my first reaction was “WOW!” SO impressed was I, that I emailed Justin (the webmaster) to find out if I could profile his site in the Super Affiliate Handbook as an example of how an affiliate site SHOULD be fleshed out. When Justin [...]

Where to Find Professional WordPress Themes

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Give your WordPress blog a professional look… You can get free skins or themes for your WordPress blog, but truth be told, only a few of the free WordPress themes that I see are all that pretty, and none of them have any SEO components built into them. So, I’ve resorted to buying themes for [...]