The w3schools website is where I learned a lot of the beginner Cascading Style Sheet writing. The Cascading Style Sheets or CSS, is the set of instructions that formats your blog. All the elements are put on the page with html, and we make them look pretty with CSS. If you head to your admin panels and look in Appearance>> Editor, and click on the Stylesheet towards the bottom of the list on the right hand side, you will see a page of CSS code. This code really is not hard to write. Here's an example: Lets say we want to put a border around a post. We go to our admin panels, … [Read more...]
Last Day to Win 31 Days to Build a Better Blog
October 31, 2009
Don't forget to sign up for the newsletter - last day to win the 31 Days to Build a Better Blog book!! I'll draw tonight!! … [Read more...]
Get your blog numbers in the dashboard
October 29, 2009
Image via Wikipedia Most of us use, or once used, Google Analytics for thorough analysis of our blog numbers. By numbers, I'm referring to the numbers of site visits, or number of pages that were visited in a day or week; numbers can also refer to the number of comments you receive or number of clicks until someone leaves your website. Although Google Analytics has nearly everything you'd want for tracking your blog's numbers, you do have to get those numbers at their site. To see your numbers through your own dashboard, similar to wordpress.com blogs, you can download a plugin … [Read more...]
Help Spread the Word About Abducted Children
October 24, 2009
On another site, I ran across this Amber Alert ticker that I hadn't seen before. I wonder why these are rare on our websites?? It is excruciatingly simple to put into your sidebar- it is small and inobtrusive. It is a plain white news ticker with a url where you can obtain a ticker, except for when there is a current abduction in progress. The ticker turns yellow and the details roll through until the amber alert is over. Do your part! Visit the Amber Alert site. Or copy and paste the code below into your sidebar: Go to Appearance>>Widgets Drag a "Text" widget over to the sidebar … [Read more...]
2 Ways to Have a Home Page
October 19, 2009
There are two ways to have a front page, and you need to be aware of which method your theme uses, so you don't wreck it! We use StudioPress themes for a number of Premium Professional WordPress Designs. And sometimes we just add the templates ourselves, depending on the theme set up. What we do with this type of front page, is create a template that WordPress will automatically use for the front page (home.php). So you do nothing except select which categories you'd like to show up on the corresponding "blog" template. Since WordPress 2.5 (I think?) they have integrated an option for … [Read more...]
3 column Premium Design for All Mediocre
October 17, 2009
Again, I can't take credit for Meghan's All Mediocre design, but the geekiness that makes it show up in your computer screen? That's all mine, baby! Love the way this turned out. So cheeky! Visit the designers: Ruby and Roja Visit All Mediocre. … [Read more...]
2 sidebars split, Basic Design with Ruby and Roja
October 17, 2009
Another custom design from Ruby and Roja. We were working with Megan again from All Mediocre and Hot Mom Reviews. She was quite tickled by the results. In fact, she was so tickled, that I can't reprint the email that we got in reply. :D Visit: RubyandRoja Visit: A Mom Two Boys … [Read more...]
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