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Nov 29  06
Design2 Comments

Joseph North has designed two sets of royalty-free icons, perfect for sprucing up your blog or site. Sweetie includes 110 icons in GIF and PNG formats. Both 16 x 16 and 24 x 24 icons are included. Sweetie2 consists of 157 icons in PNG format, in both 16 x 16 and 24 x 24 sizes. [...]

Free Sweet Icons for Your Blog or Site

Nov 28  06
WordPress2 Comments

You’ve successfully completed The Famous 5-Minute Installation and your WordPress blog is shouting, “Hello world!” Now what? In this article, I’ll give you a quick tour of the Options Panel in the WordPress Administration and give you my recommended settings for a new blog. I’ll also provide quick links to the relevant documentation on the [...]

Getting Started With WordPress: Basic Settings

Nov 28  06
WordPress7 Comments

WordPress is remarkably easy to use and extremely flexible—once you know what you’re doing. Like any software application, if you’re completely new to it, it can be a bit daunting out-of-the-box. WordPress offers excellent documentation at the WordPress Codex, but finding your way around can be overwhelming. In this article, I’ll give you a quick [...]

Getting Started With WordPress: Administration Quick Tour

Nov 27  06
TipsNo Comments

I’ve picked up a few writing tips from editors that I’ve worked with and, while writing for print is different from writing for the web, knowing these five simple principles can help you make your blog more reader-friendly. 1. Shorter is better. Keep it short. Be brief. The average visitor spends about 96 seconds reading [...]

5 Keys to Good Web Writing

Nov 27  06
DesignNo Comments

COLOURlovers is one of my favorite color resources. I’ve written about it before (here and here), but COLOURlovers has just been reborn and the site is better (and more beautiful) than ever. COLOURlovers is the ideal place to satisfy your colour lust, seek inspiration, or find the perfect palette for your web design. An active [...]

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