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 …
From the first day they were anoounced, I was excited about the introduction of post formats to WordPress. It seemed like the next evolution of blogging to me, allowing users to go beyond regular posts and share videos, quotes, statuses, images and more. It never seemed to catch on with …
A related posts section is a great way of keeping visitors on your website. I’ve added a related posts section to every one of my blogs in the past but I hadn’t got round to adding one here therefore over the last few days I’ve been looking for a good …
I came across a fantastic little plugin recently for WordPress entitled Column Shortcodes. Developed by CodePress, the plugin allows you to easily organise your content into columns on your page. Content can be divided into halves, thirds, quarters, fifths or sixths. You can also use two-thirds, three-quarters, three fifths etc. …
One of the first questions I ask before I write for another blog is “What’s the maximum width an image can be?”. It’s an important question. If an image is too wide it will probably break the design. The height of an image is irrelevant in this respect but some …
On Thursday Kolby finished up the design of Electric Bandits. He did a great job of skinning his initial design of the forum and I’m very pleased with the outcome. The forum has a top and bottom sponsor area and a place for ads on the right hand side too. …
Electric Bandits is a website which I have put on the backburner for quite a while now but I’m still making moves to get it started. Long term I hope I’m still running in a few years time as it covers a lot of things I’m interested in ie. geek …
If you have read this blog before then you will quickly realise that I changed the blog’s theme last night. I liked the last theme but it was kinda basic and I wanted to present a more professional image for myself and the blog. The new BloggingTips design will be …
Growmatik is a feature-rich marketing service that helps you convert visitors into customers. The service describes itself as an “Omni-Channel Marketing” solution, which means that the focus is on providing users with the right content at the right time. The overall goal is to give people value. In practice, what …
GeneratePress is an efficient WordPress theme that loads quickly on desktops and mobile devices. This blog has been using the premium version of GeneratePress since early 2020 and it’s by far the fastest WordPress theme I have used. Despite the speed of GeneratePress, for a couple of weeks in July …