Maintaining a successful blog is a lot like driving a steam train. It takes a lot of energy to get it going, but even when you’re on the right track, you need to keep adding fuel to the fire or it will eventually grind to a halt. Failure to follow …
The social media website Pinterest inspired a lot of website owners to use more images and less text in their home pages and post indexes. The most well known example of this is Mashable, who took inspiration from Pinterest and used featured images throughout their website. If you love the …
Every photographer needs a professional website design in order to display their portfolio and promote their services to clients. Earlier this year I took a look at premium photography WordPress themes. There are a lot of good premium photography designs available to you, however you may be surprised to hear …
I came across a reddit/Imgur page recently that shows the covers that a designer named Nikki has created for her Facebook page. Going by the fantastic moniker RubberDogTurds on Imgur, Nikki is a web designer who has a sixth sense for creating intelligent and funny Facebook covers and profile images. …
Stock images sometimes offer a small percentage of images for free, however most will cost you. It is important to check the license of any image you purchase. Rights managed licensed images place restrictions on how you can use an image. For example, an image may be restricted to what …
It’s hard to make an impression if your articles are all text. Images make it easier for readers to digest information and articles with images are more likely to be shared by readers. Image galleries are a great place to find creative commons images. It is important that you do …
Logos are an important part of branding your website or business. My problem has always been that I don’t know what I want. Whether I am designing a logo myself or paying a designer to design something for me, I always struggle to figure out what theme the logo could …
Like most people growing up, I thought I was invincible. You just don’t worry about your health or how long you will live when you’re in your teens and twenties. As you get older, you start to realise how fragile life is. Whilst I had caught chicken pox, the flu, …
The official WordPress theme directory continues to be one the most popular places for WordPress users to find good designs for their website. There are currently around 1,750 designs in the directory, yet the total number of theme downloads is close to seven million. At the current download rate, this …