How To Design Your Blog Quick and Easy

blog design

When you are a new blogger it is nice to have at least a few things that come quick and easy. Setting up the look and feel of your your blog should be one of them. In this screencast, I”ll show you a package of framework and child theme that can be used pretty much [...]

5 Ways the Right Photo Can Get You More Blog Readers

improve your blog posts with photos

If you are like me, your blog posts take some time to write. Sometimes lots of time. And if you fight The Princess Syndrome, they can take even longer. I’ll toss a topic around, let it marinate. Even start a post and abandon it because I’m not feeling particularly passionate about it. So by the [...]

Why Telling Us About You Helps Promote Your Blog

Blog about page

Although it may seem like an obvious question, do your blog readers know who you are? Do they know what you do, how you do it, and how to ask you to do whatever it is you do for them? While there may be a host of reasons for you to write your blog in [...]

Lose the Resolutions: 21 Smart Ways to Get More Readers in 2011

New Year's dog

I swear this will be the year I finally do it. Lose 10 pounds. Really, I will.  I’ll hop on that elliptical machine at 5:30 every morning and push those pedals for 60 minutes. Every day. I’ll never take another bite of Dreyer’s Fudge Swirl ice cream. I will finish my book. Are you an [...]

25% Off All StudioPress Themes for Thanksgiving Weekend

25% off StudioPress themes

We’re big fans of the StudioPress guys here at For Bloggers By Bloggers. We use their Genesis framework with the Church child theme for our design, and on my own blog, I’m currently running the Lexicon child theme as a placeholder while my designer codes the new upcoming design. As well as offering a ton [...]

How to Use Child Themes for the Genesis WordPress Framework

Genesis premium WordPress theme

At For Bloggers, By Bloggers, we use the Genesis framework to power our site. On top of that, we use the Church child theme to give us the look and feel of our current design. The reason for using a child theme is simple – it allows us to get a good-looking site up with [...]

Why the Headway Theme Live CSS Editor Box Makes Coding Easy

Headway premium WordPress theme

This post originally appeared on the Headway Theme Made Easy site, and looks at how that theme’s Live CSS Editor box makes inserting CSS code a piece of cake. Not only that, you can see what the changes will look like as you enter the code, without the need to save and refresh. Enjoy this [...]