5 Interior Design Tips to Make Your WordPress Blog User-Friendly

5 Interior Design Blogging Tips

Your blog is your house. And your visitors ring the doorbell with one question in mind: “Will I find what I need here?” Your content can be incredible, but it won’t be read unless you have set up the basics to get your users from point A to point B. Your visitors want clean,  simple, [...]

404 Error – Page Not Found (#@!*#)

404error

We’ve all be there. You click on a link and bam, you end up on a page with the dreaded 404 error – Page Not Found! Why does this happen? Well, let’s look at when you have changed or redesigned your site or blog in WordPress. Realize, these new pages have new url’s. For example: Your [...]

Three Hidden but Highly Helpful WordPress Settings

Kitchen sink button in WordPress editor window

WordPress is a wonderful piece of software. Whether you use WordPress.com or self-host, you have the tools to manage your own site. No webmaster nickel and diming you to death every time you need a minor fix. But as intuitive as WordPress is, there are a few things that well, just freakin’ hide themselves. They [...]

Is Your Blog Really Mobile Friendly?

Mobile web use

Some interesting figures about mobile browsing and user activity: 38 percent of web users in the U.S. access the web from their phone (or 89 million people). 53 percent of Americans using their phones to go online do so at least once a day. 65 percent of mobile users aged between 18-29 use their phones [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Video Overview of the New Catalyst Premium WordPress Theme

Catalyst premium WordPress theme

New to the premium WordPress theme scene, Catalyst looks to be the most in-depth and extensive premium WordPress theme currently on the market. From the same guys behind the now-discontinued Frugal theme, Catalyst takes premium WordPress themes to a whole new level for user options. With unlimited design options, a very cool CSS Builder Tool, [...]

Easy WordPress Site Design with Headway 2.0

Headway 2.0 premium WordPress theme.

After a minor hiccup that delayed launch, version 2.0 of the Headway premium WordPress theme has finally been released to the public. It’s been in private beta for developer license holders for the last couple of months (as 1.7), but with even more changes to the public version the decision was made to call it [...]