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3 Easy Ways to Improve Your Blog Design

Your blog’s design should scream success, but without detracting from your great content. A good design is almost invisible — blending perfectly with your articles. Here are a few simple things you can do to showcase content and encourage visitors to read further.
1. Display Key Content Above The Fold
The term “above the fold” refers to [...]

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Blockquote Blues!

by Doug Cloud · 9 comments

in Design, Tutorials

Recently I was cleaning up some of my posts on TBODC and I noticed one of my plain bland-looking blockquotes. Naturally, being a designer, I had to do something about this. The blockquote is a highly underrated character on a blog or website. Usually it just sits there looking bored or like a clone of [...]

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Goodbye for Now!

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As you may have noticed, I have been missing from Blogging With Success. (In fact, I am absent from the internet!)
I have decided to take a break from blogging. Why? Read on!
Who am I?
I am Ishan Sharma, 18-year-old guy from a small town called Hamirpur in India. I use the pen name “Mr. I”.
How I [...]

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10 Tricks to Make Your Blog Posts More Attractive

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With so much competition out there, keeping your blog up to date and popular might seem like a full-time job. Just when you think you have your blog looking good with a great group of followers behind you, someone else comes along with something bigger and better. To make sure you stay in the game when it comes to keeping your blog attractive, here are some tips that might keep you on the path to success.

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Making Minor Blog Changes Quickly

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This post looks at two Word Press plugins that allow direct editing of content. Front-end Editor and Inline Editor let you bypass the WP back-end to edit posts and pages. These plugins are good when developing a site where your client provides lots of content pages. It’s even more useful if the client is new [...]

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Poll: Why Use CSS-Html-Php Code?

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How much should blog owners know about Php, etc.? Are there times you feel you are forced to learn more than you want about these coding languages?

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Fixing Broken IFrames in Your Blog

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Only recently did I realize I should know more about iframes. Often your knowledge expands out of necessity — when a problem hits you square in the face! …try as I might, I could not embed the virtual chat room within a page! WP seemed to gobble up the html code, leaving only the link for a pop-up version.

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How a Sitemap Can Help Visitors Navigate Your Blog

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The Dagon Sitemap Generator is a WP plugin that provides a visual site map for your visitors. I recently added this feature to a new client site. That site has a drop-down menu for static pages and a blog category menu on the blog section.
A site with many pages makes it easier for visitors to [...]

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How to Use Maintenance Mode Plugin as Coming Soon Announcement

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There are times when you need to blackout your entire blog, allowing access to administrators only. This article discusses some of the reasons and predicaments that make the Maintenance Mode plugin so useful. I’ll give you information to create your own custom page for a ‘coming soon’ or launch type announcement. You can use these [...]

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Blogger Series: Widgets and Hacks – ReadMore, Recent Comments, Recent Posts

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This post gives some tips on popular features you can add to your Blogspot blog with little effort: post summaries (ReadMore), recent comments, and recent posts.

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