Is your existing web designer also a competent blog designer? Did you know it takes special skills to effectively design a business blog? When you're having a blog created for your website, it may not be in your business's best interest to use the same web designer ...
Category Archives: Blog Design
Watch Me Fly through Creating my Blog Consulting Page Layout in the Headway WordPress Theme
Watch this video on how I redesigned the Blog Consulting services page in the Headway WordPress Theme. Run time: less than 5 mins.
Watch How Easy is the Headway Theme for WordPress
Watch the Headway WordPress Theme video on Remarkablogger if you can't see it below. You'll probably want to watch this one at full screen. In this video you can see how easy it ...
Meet Headway: The Next Evolution in WordPress Themes
With the new Headway WordPress theme, you can visually design your blog through simple drag-and-drop editing... without needing to know everything about HTML, CSS, and PHP. In the past few years, premium WordPress themes have evolved to employ greater and greater functionality and sophistication. First, there was Revolution (which really created this whole category), ...
Five Winning Approaches for When Your Audience Doesn’t Read Blogs
The research results are clear: people don't read blogs. I was reminded of this the other night by a message from a friend on Twitter, a social media and microblogging site I use (a lot), who said this very thing. My response was that they are reading blogs, just don't know it, and ...
Special Assignment: Men With Pens Blog Design – It’s Dying Time
I was meditating outside in the middle of the night in the pouring rain, oblivious to the pelting and the cold and centered in utter stillness when the message came in. It was already getting old by precious minutes when I got back inside and checked my messages. SPECIAL ASSIGNMENT ...
Pros and Cons of Using a WordPress Blog as Your Entire Business Site
I do not pretend that blogging is the answer to everything for everyone. There are many advantages to making your entire website a blog, but there are some downsides to it, too. Let's take a look at the idea of using a blog as the whole website, both pros and cons. Blog as Business Website: The ...
20 Home-related Blog Niche Ideas
Think all the home oriented blog niches are completely saturated? Think again! The cocooning and home-as-sanctuary trend will only continue to grow. Here are twenty home-related blog niche ideas. If you use one of these, please let me know. It would make my day! :D These are in no particular order, just the order in ...
Video: Can Your Blog Answer these 3 Questions in 5 Seconds?
What is your blog about? Who are you? Why should we trust you? These are 3 questions your blog should answer within the first 5 seconds of a visitor's arrival by its design and content.
2nd Key: Blog Design – 7 Keys to Better Blogging in 7 Days
In the second part of a seven-day, seven-part series, Michael Martine briefly discusses the second key to better blogging: Blog Design. Find out what’s so important about your blog’s design.
Designing and Optimizing for Conversion
Make your website convert visitors into buyers by having a conversion funnel with as few steps as possible. I use a site I’m working on as an example.
How to Use Blogspot Image Hosting for Your Blogger Template Images
UPDATE: This technique isn't as necessary, anymore, since the advent of the new Blogger system. This is quite easy to do but the results are terrific: a unique template amidst a sea of Minima.Your image should be optimized and ready to go.Create a post for your Blogger blog and click the upload image button.Browse your computer's ...
Sex appeal in web design
Web Sites Have Sex Appeal is a brief report on a study conducted by the University of Glamorgan in the United Kingdom. What it concludes may not appear at first to have a profound effect on how you choose to design your blog, but I'll share some other information with you later that will ...