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Design

Two weeks ago, we changed our design. Now we are using Thesis framework. On that post, some readers said that they were planning to buy Thesis. When we decided to buy Thesis, we read some reviews and guess what? None of them was completely true! You will find many articles out there promoting Thesis. Guess [...]

Last year, ProBlogger predicted that “Mom blogs are poised to become the next big “It” when it comes to the internet–they’re gathering power like no other blogging niche and will only get bigger and better. BloggingWithSuccess draws some interesting Mommy Bloggers. Many are, in their own words, “desperately seeking” our tutorial for creating a scroll [...]

Most of us don’t think much about our current blog design unless someone complains or we get tired of the theme. We go merrily along creating great content. But not taking stock of existing design flaws is like skipping your annual doctor visit or car inspection – just waiting for something to go wrong. Blog [...]

I’m sure you see some interesting font styling on other blogs and wonder just how they managed those touches. You sigh and think that if you could only monetize your blog, you could hire a designer! Well, you don’t have to go that far to create some of that eye candy. In this post you’ll learn about [...]

Who does not want a blog that encourages readers to stay for a while, subscribe, click or share? Everyone wants it, but not everyone is getting it! What’s the problem? The problem is that we are not being what we are, Humans! We think like bots, designers and what-not, but not like normal human beings! [...]

When you see a blogging tip you can usually tell right away if it’s for WordPress, Blogger or both. In our tutorial about adding a grab button scroll box , the code includes a html tag, <textarea>to create the scroll box. The box holds the customized html code for visitors to copy and paste your [...]

Do you get good traffic but very few comments? Do you get very few submissions to social sites? If you are not converting your readers well, then this post is for you! As a blogger, I have always been concerned about Exit Points. Exit points are the choices you give your readers to leave your [...]

This tutorial is part of a series.  Need more background on CSS? Check out our index of published blog styling tips where you will find an introduction to CSS/Html basics and some other resources. We welcome any suggestions. Description: Text-shadow is a simple styling element to create cool text effects that look like images generated [...]

UPDATE: After moving to Thesis theme, we no longer use this method for social bookmarking, but it can still work for you. Social Bookmarks are must have for any blog. They let readers share the posts which brings traffic and new readers. There are lot of plugins that add social bookmarks to WordPress but having [...]