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http://vandelaydesign.com/blog/galleries/blog-designs/ Published in Galleries While the content is the most critical element to a blog’s success, having an attractive design can certainly help to capture the interest and to make a positive first impression with your visitors. In this post we’ll showcase 25 outstanding blog designs for your own inspiration. The selection here includes designs with a variety of different styles and blogs of many different types. Sand and Starfish

25 Beautiful Blog Designs

12 Tips To Increase Your Blog Subscribers at DzineBlog.com - Design Blog, Inspiration, Tutorials, Tips and Resources

Learn how to earn $125 or more per hour as a freelancer - Click Here Every blogger would love to have large numbers associated with their blogs, be it daily traffic, number of facebook fans, followers on twitter or even the number of subscribers to the blog. Let us discuss some techniques you can use as a blogger, to help increase your subscriber numbers. 1. Prominent RSS Icons – One of the most common mistakes is to not have prominent RSS markers on the blog. http://dzineblog.com/2010/12/12-tips-to-increase-your-blog-subscribers.html

Tips to Make Your Blog Ideal for Max Traffic

http://www.tutoriallounge.com/2010/12/tips-to-make-your-blog-ideal-for-max-traffic/ Arfa Mirza Posted on 08. Dec, 2010 | Comment in! Either you are designing a brochure , flyer, post card, business card or any other communication material, attraction factor is always important.

The Complete Guide to Becoming a Blogger

A freelance writer working for for Go-gulf.com, Kuwait web design company that provides web design solution in Bahrain ,Sharjah and Middle East. According to Wikipedia a blog is “a type of website or part of a website. Blogs are usually maintained by an individual with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or video”. http://creativeoverflow.net/the-complete-guide-to-becoming-a-blogger/
I make an effort to frequently visit the web sites, portfolios, or blogs of people who take time to leave comments here at GDB, follow me on twitter, or ‘like’ GDB on our facebook page. Needless to say, I spend quite a bit of time looking through content that other designers produce. And there has been a common concern that I have experienced nearly every time I visit a designer’s company or personal blog: They don’t seem to think about why they are blogging. Today I’d like to help you discover the “why” behind your design blog. By doing so, you will be able to attract a larger percentage of your target audience and, ultimately, be a more successful designer and blogger.

Designers, stop and think about why you’re blogging

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Looking for an amazing yet affordable theme for your site? Join Elegant Themes for the all-inclusive price of $39, and you're only paying 50 cents per theme! As the blogosphere continues to fill up with people who are working to earn as much as possible from their online efforts, the competition to accomplish that task is becoming more and more fierce. In fact, it can sometimes feel like you’re in a crowded room standing shoulder-to-shoulder and bumping elbows with the folks around you while trying to accomplish something delicate like brain surgery. Often I see people jumping into 1 of 2 camps. Either they demand that they are blogging solely to build community and gain influence with their peers or I hear them boasting that they are in it to win it.

Blogging for Influence: Transforming Your Online Presence

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http://www.1stwebdesigner.com/freebies/blog-design-tutorials/ Creativity has no end to it and especially designing has seen and is seeing a continuous growth in its field. To be creative we need to be updated with the latest updations, and WordPress the most popular blogging platform has seen a rapid development in a quick span of time. Mastering this can become quite a tedious and time consuming process in this case keeping the growing developments in mind.Designing may be quite fun to work with but learning those procedures and technical aspects may give you a tough time. Even the finest details are to be learn and mastered which is not an easy task with developments happening every minute. Tutorials help you in this case where all the help about any task is given in quite an illustrative manner as under the guidance of an expert.

The Ultimate Roundup of Blog Design Tutorials

http://www.1stwebdesigner.com/freebies/design-blogs/ If you are a web designer and you are looking for resources, inspirations, designing tutorials or want to keep yourself updated with the current trends in this field then you don’t need to worry because Internet is full of blogs related to web designing. You will find a huge number of blogs featuring tips, tricks and how-to’s on daily basis. Today we have collected 40 awesomely informative blogs which will bring out the best designer from you.

40 Must Read Blogs For Developers and Designers

http://jayce-o.blogspot.com/2010/09/13-inspiring-blog-designs.html Advertisement Let's enjoy some trends and examples of design blogs that are popular in this year. Apparently the use of a minimalist layout, whitespace is quite broad, and typographic settings to be some important points in designing this blog. Some say, look directly would be better than just a word, so please enjoy.

13 Inspiring Blog Designs | Jayce-o-Yesta Studio

http://creativefan.com/7-tips-to-boost-your-blogs-rss-subscribers/ Successful bloggers have learned that you shouldn’t leave it to chance or memory that a visitor will come back to your blog to read new articles. Popular blogs proactively put their readers in a position where they can alerted to new content and pulled back to the blog. A blog with a large number of RSS subscribers will benefit from a steady flow of traffic from loyal visitors, and it this group who are the most likely to link back to your website from their own, bookmark you in Digg, Stumbleupon, Delicious et al, spread the word via social media and engage with your blog posts via the comments. However, increasing your RSS subscribers can be a bit of a challenge, as you have to convince the reader that your site is worth the daily updates.

7 Tips to Boost Your Blog’s RSS Subscribers

If design blogs were to be transformed into motor vehicles (Transformers style!), what would they be? Now’s your chance to find out! Here’s a roundup of your favourite design blogs along their mechanical counterparts, each comparison has been scientifically matched on general theme, style, persona and character – Which one do you think is the best fit? Smashing Magazine is the juggernaut of the design blog world with huge traffic and subscriber statistics. As a multi-author blog Smashing Magazine pumps out high quality articles throughout the week and touches on various design related topics.

If Design Blogs Were Vehicles, What Would They Be?

A collection of tips which I’ve implemented over the years when launching a new design blog, as well as being a good personal reference of things I should do in the future if I choose to launch a new blog. Setting Up goals Setting up goals and targets which you want your blog to achieve, this is great because it gives you motivation to work harder in order achieve a goal. Five personal goals which I setup when creating Vector Patterns was to aim towards achieveing the following targets over a 5 month period. 1. Over 1000 RSS subscribers and over 1000 twitter followers

A Guide How To launch A New Design BlogVector Patterns |

Do you want a simpler design for your blog? One that’s lean, elegant and attractive? Well, there are five easy steps to making your blog look better and to attracting more subscribers, customers and members. And you don’t have to be a design ninja or have worked at Apple to pull it off!

5 Easy Steps to a Simpler Blog Design

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6 Simple Steps To Killer Blog Interviews

50 Awesome Design Blogs Which Consistently Produce Good Content

last week we created a post on 50 fonts every designer must download. This week we thought it would only be right to follow up with another similar article this time 50 design blogs every designer should be reading. Not ascending or descending in any particular order but just a good list of blogs which may not get thousands of visitors every month but offer good valuable content on a consistent basis. Vector patterns is design blog which was launched two weeks ago and i blog which the Creative Nerds team also run.
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