How much do you stand to lose if your site goes down and you’re left without a backup? Even if you only have a smaller personal site, losing months or even years worth of work will hurt. If your site is vital to your business it can get you in the pocketbook, too. You’ll not [...]
This is a user submitted resource. Tutorials are all the rage. Tutoriallounge has put together a collection of 40 fantasy art Photoshop tutorials to guide you in creating your own creative work. They range from shocking to calming to thought-provoking. In every example, you will see creativity and amazing perspective. Check it out
This excellent tutorial was put together by Jared over at Design Juices. As a key feature in WordPress 3.0, custom post types have the potential to turn your blog inside-out. (In a good way) Custom post types promise to bring WordPress one step closer to being a real CMS, not just a blog platform. Check [...]
You work hard to create amazing content. You also work hard revising and updating your site with new plugins, themes, and more. If it hasn’t happened to you yet, it will: a new plugin that was not designed to work with your version of WordPress breaks everything. You can’t get into the Dashboard and deleting [...]
With hundreds of thousands of blogs being created every day, yours will take a lot to stand out in the crowd. These tips have been assembled from years of experience navigating the blogosphere. Stick to these 6 principles and you’ve got a pretty decent chance of making it. 1. Use a custom design This is [...]
The golden rule of blogging is offer valuable content. This tip trumps a good design, flashy graphics, twitter integration, powerful links, even advertisements. However, quality content can be improved with an applicable and eye-catching screenshot. Here are some tips and tools for creating awesome screenshots for your WordPress posts. Choosing the format All screenshots should [...]
WordPress is one of the simplest, fastest and easiest tools for blogging. It is open source software developed originally by a god, I mean guy named Matt Mullenweg. With the advent of WordPress, Mullenweg single-handedly changed the face of the web. Ok, so he didn’t do it alone, he had lots of talented coders working [...]
Using Google with some basic knowledge on advanced searching techniques you can find some high quality free resources which have typically been set up as digg bait on social media sites. The results of using Google over searching through the sites individually are much better, try for yourself by typing some of the following terms. To search [...]
