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If you’ve been lurking in the feed readers, it’s time to stop by and see some new-fangled things. So here’s the inside scoop. If you’re following us on Twitter then you may have heard one or two of  tweets from a little blue birdie. CommentLuv I installed the CommentLuv plugin on Apr 15. Mr. I [...]

Customized Feedburner Subscription Box

by Doug Cloud on April 7, 2010 · 19 comments

I received a great deal of positive feedback on the RSS subscribe box I made for my Blogger site. Some folks were curious as to how I put it together. This tutorial describes how I stylized my subscribe box and inserted the code into a text widget. For this tutorial I will be using Photoshop [...]

The Death of Conversation

by Doug Cloud on March 23, 2010 · 7 comments

Now just to let you know this post has zilch to do with design. More appropriately, it has to do with the art of communication – a lost art, or so it seems. Something I have noticed over the last few years is how people’s attention spans have dwindled along with the manner in which [...]

Twitter Me This, Twitter Me That…

by Doug Cloud on March 16, 2010 · 11 comments

I started my design blog in May of 2007 with more than a little trepidation. Although I read other people’s blogs regularly, both at home and at work, I was never interested in blogging myself. To be honest, I’m not a very sociable person, and the thought of coming up with a blog post on [...]

Making Minor Blog Changes Quickly

by SBA on February 17, 2010 · 11 comments

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 [...]

Fixing Broken IFrames in Your Blog

by SBA on January 27, 2010 · 4 comments

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.

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 [...]

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 [...]

Do Not Just Blog, Blog Efficiently!

by Ishan on December 26, 2009 · 30 comments

So, you are a blogger? Are you blogging in your leisure time or doing it to earn some serious income? In any case, you will not succeed! Nothing can help you succeed — no costly courses, no e-books, no Gurus, nothing! Why? Because you blog! That’s what millions of other people around the globe are [...]

StumbleUpon’s recent upgrade dramatically changes the online sharing game. Some Stumblrs are looking to jump ship, sniffing out other social media like FaceBook for the first time. Version 3 friends are now “subscriptions” in Version 4. The transition started in early October. Like many of you, I assumed my friends were safely labeled for the [...]