I’ve been behind checking my email this week and it could have cost you a great deal….
Apparently the fantastic Thesis WordPress theme (see my first impressions of Thesis here) is running a special this weekend. They’ve just updated the theme with some great new features (see below) but if you buy it before the end [...] [..] Read complete article
Published 31-Aug-2008 by Darren Rowse in blog design Read 1 times
‘How do I make my page load faster?’ - it’s a question I get a bit so I thought I’d ask Aaron Brazell from Technosailor to tackle the question and offer some suggestions around enhancing page load times.
“The internet is dying.”
This phrase, though probably a bit sensationalist, is also not far from the truth. As [...] [..] Read complete article
Published 12-Aug-2008 by Darren Rowse in blog design Read 1 times
One of my favorite blog designers is Chris Pearson - the designer behind the newly released Thesis premium WordPress theme (which I reviewed here).
Chris has consistently produced great blog designs over the last few years so after the launch of Thesis I thought it would be worthwhile to do a short interview with him [...] [..] Read complete article
Published 05-Aug-2008 by Darren Rowse in blog design Read 3 times
Last week in my post exploring how to make blogs sticky I suggested (in point 14) that one technique to consider is to remove the dates from your blog posts.
My theory is that dates can either add to or take away from a post. Let me explore this a little further:
When you put a date [...] [..] Read complete article
Published 21-Jul-2008 by Darren Rowse in blog design Read 2 times
Every week I’m asked by readers to recommend a WordPress template.
I thought it’d make an interesting discussion - which WordPress templates are your favorites?
I know it always varies from blog to blog when you’re choosing the best template for the job but I’d love to see some of your favorites.
Feel free to nominate both Free [...] [..] Read complete article
Published 06-Jul-2008 by Darren Rowse in blog design Read 2 times
@tcdzomba (on Twitter) asked me - “Do u have a post up about how many blog posts to keep on the front page of the blog?”
It’s not a topic that I’ve written about specifically before so let me write on that topic now for you and open it up for some discussion (looking forward to [...] [..] Read complete article
Published 02-Jul-2008 by Darren Rowse in blog design Read 2 times
I’m doing most of my linking out to the great posts that I read over on Twitter these days but today a post by Chris Brogan got my attention that I’d particularly like to highlight. You can read it at:
Make Your Blog Design Work For You
What I like about the post is the intentionality that [...] [..] Read complete article
Published 18-May-2008 by Darren Rowse in blog design Read 6 times
In this post Daniel Scocco answers a question from Reader Mar Joseph who asks:
I would like to have my site professionally designed as my lack of code knowledge is really holding me back. What are the best avenues to find designers?
First of all let’s identify the goal behind this question: to have a professional [...] [..] Read complete article
Published 06-May-2008 by Daniel Scocco in blog design Read 8 times
@SalesBlogcast asks - “What’s the difference between haveing “links” vs. a “blog roll?” Benefits? Chosing wisely?”
Ultimately the word ‘blogroll’ is just a different term used to describe a list of links, usually on the sidebar of a blog. It’s just a different label for the list of links I guess.
When I first started blogging [...] [..] Read complete article
Published 27-Apr-2008 by Darren Rowse in blog design Read 9 times
@mattpacker asks - how important is the design of your blog and how hard a decision do you think it would be to develop a new theme for it?
There will probably be a little debate over this one in the comments on this post because every time I see someone write about design there are [...] [..] Read complete article
Published 25-Apr-2008 by Darren Rowse in blog design Read 2 times
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