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There is a great deal of new plugins available to address the many other aspects of WordPress that can make it confusing for clients and new users. With a few added tweaks you can bend WordPress into a fully customized CMS for your site. Today we have present 10 hand-picked wordpress plugins for you. Click on any image and download it. Are you looking to contribute to our design community ? Suggest a link
The Habit Change Cheatsheet: 29 Ways to Successfully Ingrain a B
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. – Aristotle Our daily lives are often a series of habits played out through the day, a trammeled existence fettered by the slow accretion of our previous actions. By Leo Babauta
How to Display Your Content on a Blog’s Front Page
The front page of a blog is obviously of great importance to the overall design. Up until a few years ago, most blogs simply showed posts in order of publication, the most recent at the top. Then excerpts became popular, and later magazine-style front pages. The purpose of the front page will, of course, vary a bit from one type to another; for example, a personal blog will be different from a professional multi-author blog.
SEO Best Practices for a Site Redesign
0inShare The following goes over some best practices you should be, well, practicing if you’re involved in a site refresh (redesign) project. We hit on some steps to take to make sure your rankings carry over to your new site as well as measures to take to ensure that your ‘beta’ site doesn’t work against you. Then we hit on some quick “lessons learned” items that you should go over before you finally flip the switch.
Tips for Designing Unique and Attractive Blog Posts
Designers have began to inject increasing levels of creativity into their blog posts and articles, throwing out the traditional and generic style of blog posts in favour of a much more attractive layout that’s themed specifically to the content. Let’s take a look at some of the best examples, and see what makes them work so well. In his fantastic article ‘The Death of the Boring Blog Post‘, Paddy Donnelly sums up this method of fusing together a blog post with the style and design of a traditional magazine article and coins the name, ‘Blogazine’.
Is What’s Good For Google Good For SEO? » aimClear Search Market
Let’s get this out of the way: Matt Cutts is the head of Google’s web spam team. He is perceived as a rock star in the industry and everywhere he goes he is a followed by a giddy horde of search marketers. SEO trends and techniques live and die by the words of the affable Mr. Cutts. Yet there remains a healthy degree of skepticism and about Google’s advice.
The Role of Promotion Buttons and Submissions to Community Feeds
How do we all drive people to our site? To see the articles we all slave over for hours each day? Each of us are all out here to get the most hits we can onto our pages, (whether it’s to create advertisement revenue or not.) There are several ways in which to achieve this, and I hope to discuss two of the easiest and simple in which to setup and carry out. Promotion Buttons There are various ways in which to promote your design articles, whether its just a few tweets, diggs, bumps or blends.
Web forms design guidelines: an eyetracking study
Forms can be found on almost every website; from contact or feedback forms in small websites to bank details in commerce websites, from registration to communication, from banking to searching. What we wanted to do, and why we wanted to do it At cxpartners, we have designed and tested numerous new and existing forms for websites from different companies. We use a set of golden rules that we use as a reference for form design that we have developed over the past six years. We wanted to validate these rules and seek further insights into various aspects of web form design.
20+ Brand New and Incredibly Useful WordPress Plugins - Nettuts+
With more than 7000+ plugins, WordPress is the most extendable Content Management System available; in fact, "WordPress is infinitely extensible" as Matt Mullenweg says. In this post, we'll examine twenty-one really useful plugins to take your blog to the next level. 1.
SEO ROI » The 4.5 Personas Of My SEO Site
By observing patterns in visitor intent and demographics, conversion optimization and redesigns can be planned more intelligently. The patterns you identify can be used to create personas. Through my use of 4Q visitor surveys, I’ve learned the top reasons people visit SEO ROI Services and developed corresponding personas. What’s a persona? A persona is an imaginary user who is representative of a user group. The main thrust of their representativeness is in terms of their objective in visiting the site and/or using any given page, as well as their demographics and tech savviness.
When To Use Magazine-Style Themes For Blogs? - Smashing Magazine
Advertisement When designing a custom theme or deciding on an already-existing theme, bloggers have a lot of factors to consider and there is no shortage of options, particularly for WordPress users. A growing number of blogs are moving away from traditional blog layouts in favor of magazine-style themes; however, the layout and presentation of content has a major impact on visitors and there is no one-size-fits-all solution. Key Differences
