Recently, on a forum I frequent, an old acquaintance asked how to convert one of his old Dreamweaver sites to WordPress, with the least amount of effort involved. At first, I thought it would be impossible to make it an easy task, but after seeing some other responses, I realized I was wrong. Although the process isn’t completely trivial, it can be done with a lot less effort than I’d...
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Back in the long ago world of HTML 1.0, when the Internet was just a tiny blip of a baby, we all wrote HTML code that covered everything – design and content. We’d spend a lot of time writing lots and lots of code, each time we created a new page. It was a bit of a drag, but really, we didn’t know there could be a better way.
CSS and Templates: Separation of Content From Presentation
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If you only have one WordPress blog, and never write guest posts elsewhere, you probably are very capable of remembering how to format your posts. I mean, how hard could it be to remember the maximum width to use for images, or which Hx tag (H1, H2, H3…) to separate sections of a post? Right?
But try remembering even those two things when you write posts for several blogs. If you’re...
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Over time, I’ve written guest posts or contributory posts on several sites across the web. It occurred to me today that some of you might benefit from those postings, because they focus on topics that I don’t tend to delve into very much here on this blog. So I’ve rounded them up and hopefully I’ve included them all, but I can’t promise that I didn’t forget about one...
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I like to tell people that I’m no designer, but I know what looks good. Of course, each of us has her own opinion about “beauty” but over the years, scientific research suggests that our individual ideas on beauty aren’t so far apart. Simply put, we often find beauty in things that are symmetrical and harmonious; things that are easy for our brains to process and assess, and that...
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This Dazzlin Badge of Excellence is awarded to LightEcho. I haven’t given a badge of excellence in a while, and this is the first I’ve given to someone of the male species.
I like this site, not only because it’s visually appealing to me, but because the information it contains is broad and varied, but still on point. And what is that point? Well, I’ll let Jonathan’s own...
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Flickr is a goldmine of images that you can use to spice up your web site or blog posts. But there are some things you should be aware of, so that you can keep it all legal. Now, I don’t want this to just be some boring post about keeping it legal. No, I intend to showcase how you can not only use Flickr images safely, but easily.
Let’s face it, crafting a good blog post or site article...
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When is a blog not a blog? When it is a site that is managed like a blog, that’s when.
Want to know a little secret? My most profitable site is not a blog. It’s just a regular site. You know, the kind that has existed for years, long before the word blog was invented. I almost never update it. I hardly ever even think about it. I certainly don’t post daily or weekly like I would...
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This Dazzlin Badge of Excellence is awarded to Coaching Wizardry. Joanna Young is a writing coach, and on the surface her blog is a writing blog. She says that her blog is about “exploring the power of words to change our worlds, to transform our experience of reality.” But her blog is so much more than a blog about writing, so don’t confine your thinking about this one. To me, this...
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This Dazzlin Badge of Excellence is awarded to Skelliewag. Skelliewag’s tag line is “On Creating Content 2.0 To Match The New Web” and Skellie does a great job of doing just that, while teaching readers how to do the same. I love reading great content, and when that same great content gives tips on how to create more great content, well, it’s like a never-ending spinning...
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