Archive for Blog Design
Written on January 21st, 2009 at 12:01 am by Darren Rowse
How to Redesign a Blog: Redesigning DPS
In this post (the first of two) Web Designer Matt Brett shares some reflections and tips from the process of redesigning my Digital Photography School blog.
When I was approached by Darren to take on the task of not only redesigning, but expanding his Digital Photography Schoolblog, I was thrilled and a little intimidated. I knew [...]
Written on January 18th, 2009 at 12:01 am by Darren Rowse
Use Gravatars to Add Personality to Your Blog
In this post Jack Gamble from Babeled sheds some light on a handy service – Gravatars which is a tool that many people are adding to their blogs (I’ve got it operating in the comments section of both TwiTip and Digital Photography School at present).
An important thing to remember as you develop your blog is [...]
Written on January 13th, 2009 at 08:01 am by Darren Rowse
Digital Photography School just got a New Design
Blog redesigns are always experiences that are mixed with excitement and a little fear – today has been a day for both of those feelings as we launched a new design for Digital Photography School.
The new design includes an expansion from 1 blog to 3, a new portal/aggregation front page, Gravatars in comments and a [...]
Written on November 27th, 2008 at 10:11 am by Darren Rowse
Thesis WordPress Theme – 20% off Black Friday Sale Now On
If you’re looking to upgrade the design of your blog and are interested in a premium blog design then Thesis is a theme that theme that today you can get a pretty good special price on.
For the first 150 people to take up the offer there’s a 20% discount – IF you use this code [...]
Written on November 22nd, 2008 at 12:11 am by Darren Rowse
How I added the Twitter ID field to comments on Twitip.com
A couple of days ago I added the ability for those leaving comments on my TwiTip Twitter Tips blog to add their Twitter ID as well as their URL to comments. Since doing this I’ve been asked time and time again how we did it. In this guest post Sean Walberg (the guy who actually [...]
Written on October 17th, 2008 at 05:10 am by Darren Rowse
How to Increase Subscribers and Reader Engagement
Last week I decided to find some quality Australian blogs to subscribe to. I used a newly compiled list of Australian Marketing Blogs that Julian Cole put together as the basis for my search.
I was excited by the quality of some of the blogs on that list – but it struck me as I [...]
Written on September 9th, 2008 at 11:09 pm by Darren Rowse
How to Polish Posts: Individual Blog Post Design
Much is written about how to ‘design blogs’ (as a whole) but another element of ‘blog design’ that I think is just as important, yet not written about much, is the design of individual blog posts.
How blog posts ‘look’ is so important. I’ve seen the power of ‘polishing’ posts time and time again.
Image by Darwin [...]
Written on September 9th, 2008 at 12:09 am by Darren Rowse
Present a Consistent Brand in Your Blogging
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In this video post I reflect upon the one of the downsides of changing your blog’s brand and/or design.
While updating blog design, logos and avatars in social media sites can bring a lot of life to a blog and present you with an up to date [...]
Written on August 31st, 2008 at 09:08 pm by Darren Rowse
Thesis WordPress Updates and Offers a Weekend Bonus
I’ve been behind checking my email this week and it could have cost you a great deal….
Apparently the fantastic Thesis WordPress theme (see my first impressions of Thesis here) is running a special this weekend. They’ve just updated the theme with some great new features (see below) but if you buy it before the end [...]
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