HOW TO: Build a More Beautiful Blog. This series is supported by Webdesigner Depot, a popular web design blog covering tutorials, design trends, blogging and inspirational posts. You can visit WDD at webdesignerdepot.com and follow WDD on Twitter @designerdepot. Whether you're blogging for business or pleasure, now is the time to take your little corner of the web to the next level. Social media makes your blog more visible and valuable than ever, and the amount of resources available to beautify and streamline your blog is enormous, and ever growing. The best part is, you don't have to be a designer or a programmer to create a great looking blog, but you should know where to find the right resources, and how to align your blog's design with its purpose.
Learn Some HTML We all wish the web was 100% drag and drop, but we're not quite there yet. You can get away with pushing the knobs and levers on the back-end for a while, but you may never get your blog to look exactly how you envision it without knowing a little bit of HTML. Social Networking Policies: Best Practices For Companies. Full List - 25 Best Blogs 2009. Best Children's Christmas Books of 2009 - Christmas Picture. Introduction Here you'll find cover art and information about a variety of Christmas books for children that I think children will enjoy.
They include a book about the birth of Christ, illustrated with artwork from The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and this Christmas fairy tale about Santa Claus. The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus Title: The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus Author: L. Illustrator: Charles Santore, award-winning artist and illustrator Recommended for Ages: 5 to 11, as well as adults Story: I was first drawn to The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus by Charles Santore's stunning portrait of Santa Claus on the cover. In his introduction to The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Baum talked about wanting to write a new kind of fairy tale, "in which the wonderment and joy are retained and the heart-aches and nightmares are left out. " The imaginative story and the accompanying illustrations make The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus by L.
Copyright: 2009. 100 Best Blogs for Book Reviews | Online College Tips - Online C. It seems that a large number of book fanatics love to write about what they’ve read almost as much as doing the actual reading. That’s a good thing for the rest of the readers out there, because blogs about books are an excellent way to discover great books without wasting your valuable time on the bad ones. Along with reading top book review blogs, students are exposed to excellent classic and contemporary books through traditional and online master’s degrees in English literature.
Check out these blogs that are all dedicated to reviewing books. General Fiction Reviews These blogs feature book reviews across many different fiction categories such as classics, world literature, literary fiction, mystery, young adult, and more. The books read by these bloggers go beyond what you’d come across in typical English degree programs. Becky’s Book Reviews. Children and Young Adult Reviews Children’s literature and young adult literature are the focus of these blogs. Guys Lit Wire. 26 books. Romance. The 10 Best Mashups on the Web - What is the Best Mashup? Web mashups are skyrocketing in popularity. A mashup's ability to take information from different areas of the web such as Google Maps and Twitter and combine that information into a small application can create some unique, useful and downright entertaining results. The best mashups are both visually appealing and either useful or, at least, entertaining to the point of needing to come with a warning label not to view at work if you want to get anything done. 1.
WeatherBonk Description: If you have ever wanted to be a weather forecaster or traffic reporter, Weatherbonk is the web mashup for you. Combining Google Maps with multiple weather resources including WeatherBug and the National Weather Service, WeatherBonk is the best mashup for pretending to be a forecaster. Weatherbonk also gives traffic details and you can even plot out a trip with weather information included. More Information About Weatherbonk 2. 3. More Information about FindNearby 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. Most Useful Web Applications for 2008. As we bid adieu to 2008, let’s looks at some useful web applications that really made an impact. All these apps are available online for free and require no installation.
Let’s looks at some really useful web applications that have made an impact. All these apps are available online for free and require no installation. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. This article was originally written for HT (PDF) so there may be some overlap between this list and the Essential Guide for Computer Newbies that I shared yesterday. Best Of 2008: Best New and Improved Software of 2008. SExpand Click to view Mobile phone operating systems and a reheated web browser war: that's how we'll recall the year 2008 when it comes to software. From brand new to revamped browsers and mobile platforms and apps, 2008's been good to technophiles who like their data in the cloud and accessible wherever they are. Let's take a look back at this year in software, and some of the best new and improved applications, web services, and mobile platforms that were born in 2008. Looking back at the last 12 months, these are the apps that get a gold foil-wrapped chocolate coin from us this year.
Photo by Gaetan Lee.P Firefox 3P Not only did you swoon over the release of Firefox 3 because of the "AwesomeBar" and the rest of the "Had no idea I needed this but now I love it! " Google ChromeP iPhone 2.0 and the App StoreP iPhone 2.0 Jailbreak Utilities and AppsP Google AndroidP DigsbyP XBMC and ForksP Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex and Hardy HeronP Gmail Labs, Gadgets, and ThemesP Honorable MentionsP.