Tag: Blog Design

Create a custom blog design

18 December, 2007 (07:50) | Better Blogger | By: Ellie


Step #32 in the 101 Steps to Becoming a Better Blogger.

Create a custom blog design. Your blog is a symbol of your brand. Make it uniquely you.

thepinkc Current themeI’ve tweaked the current theme alot, but there’s definitely a lot more that can be done. I’m not a coder by trade, but I do like poking around and finding new ways to make my site easier to use and better looking!

One thing that did help in customizing this current theme was enlisting the services of a graphic designer to create a custom banner and logos for the site.

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Read more posts from this series:

  1. 101 Steps to Becoming a Better Blogger
  2. Use WordPress!: Step #1
  3. Sign up for Feedburner: Step #2
  4. Post at least once a day: Step #3
  5. Optimize your blog for SEO: Step #4
  6. Have an “About Me” page: Step #5
  7. 101 Steps: #6-8
  8. Blog and Ping - Step #9 in 101 Steps to Becoming a Better Blogger
  9. Submit your blog to RSS and blog directories: Step #10
  10. Trackbacks are important - Step #11
  11. Get involved in the blogosphere - Step #12
  12. Give your blog its own unique voice - Step #13
  13. Create unique, quality content - Step #14
  14. Add a large RSS button to your site
  15. Place an RSS feed link at the bottom of every post
  16. Install the MyBlogLog Widget
  17. Social Bookmarking - Step #18
  18. Better Blogger - Steps 19-31
  19. Create a custom blog design
  20. Add photos to each of your posts
  21. Use tagging in WordPress
  22. Tips to get more out of your WordPress blog
  23. Turn your blog posts into podcasts!
  24. Follow these 12 Steps and Get MORE Readers!
  25. Create a customized 404 page
  26. Keep Working at Becoming a Better Blogger!
  27. 11 Ways to Monetize Your Blog
  28. 19 Final Tips to Becoming a Better Blogger

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Web Design, Part Deux: Dreamweaver, Arachnophilia and Coffee Cup

1 October, 2007 (10:34) | Soulville, Technology | By: HarriMac


Alrighty. I know you’ve been waiting. Today, I’m reviewing one free to try, pay to keep web design program (Dreamweaver) and two totally freebies (Arachnophilia and Coffee Cup).

I started using Dreamweaver when it was owned by Macromedia in version MX 2004. I recently picked up Adobe Dreamweaver CS3 (el cheapo as a student from my school). This will review mainly the overall program of Dreamweaver - pick the version you want more if it is what you choose to use.

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Hand Coding Anyone?

27 September, 2007 (17:01) | Soulville, Technology | By: HarriMac


Example of the beginning of a site:

<html>
<head>
<title>My Test Site</title>
</head>
<body>
Text
</body>
</html>

Now that’s really basic. No doubt you want some color, some different sized text, some things in bold, italics or underlined, etc. You can do all that formatting and more with pure code.

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