Design

Is your sidebar taking the spotlight from your blog’s content? Well don’t stand for it! Use these tricks to organize your widgets for a cleaner design. This tip shows you how to save space by using tables to put your icon ducks in a row.

Should links open in a new or different tab?

Recently, a reader said that he did not like that links on Blogging With Success open in same tabs.

What do you think?

In this post, I have discussed both the cases, new vs. open tabs. Add what you think and this debate will be over forever!

Have a Blogging Question?

Well, we all have. But many of them are either not answered properly or already answered.

So, I decided to make a big list that contains frequently asked questions about blogging. Read on to find out the answers. And if you want to ask something, just ask in comments

I’ve wanted to write this post for some time now. I see many bloggers with free themes that don’t have a basic or easily customized menu bar. Well, the menu is key to letting readers find their way to your important content. It was a post by Timethief  that triggered my article. She said: For [...]

Accessibility is a general term used to describe the degree to which a product, device, service, or environment is accessible by as many people as possible – Wikipedia. Making your blog more accessible will help you get more readers which translates to success. Here are 25 tips to make your blog more accessible for readers: [...]

In a previous post we talked about 3 Easy Ways to Improve Your Blog Design by proper placement of key text, consistent alignment of sidebar elements and decluttering of social icons.  Well, it’s time to look at one more — whitespace ! It’s all about showcasing your blog content and making it easy for visitors [...]

If you use the Headway Theme on your WP site, you’re in luck! Headway provides a feature called ‘Easy Hooks” to let non-developers load content at key spots without hacking the theme.  This article will discuss inserting the code for the Sitemeter tracker. Be aware, there are affiliate links. Recently, I installed and customized the [...]

10 Reasons I Am In Love With Thesis

by Ishan on July 2, 2010 · 7 comments

We have just finished a redesign and guess what, we are still using Thesis Theme Framework. When we bought Thesis back in November, I noted that one of the biggest problems with Thesis is that it’s over hyped and is a framework! It is still true and I still don’t like those facts. But yet, [...]

This post is about creating a discreet rolling gadget in the sidebar to show off your friends buttons, badges or blogrolls. The idea for this tutorial came from a question by Sheri at My Bargain Basket: I’ve seen on another site (I wish I could remember which one) a rolling list of buttons from other [...]

Do you have a Facebook page for blog? What? No! Really? Then you are missing an opportunity to double your social media traffic! How? Read this: In a recent analysis of web traffic by Statcounter, it was revealed that Facebook accounts for nearly half of the traffic delivered by social media websites. Full report: Facebook [...]