From the category archives:

web design

Fixed my WordPress List Formatting Glitch

January 28, 2010

I’ve made a few list posts, mostly bul­let style. The prob­lem was the for­mat­ting, all my points were crammed together in a solid block of text. It made the post kind of unsightly and not very easy (or desir­able) to read. If I tried to add a space it would try to make it my […]

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Hand Drawn Web Design

July 30, 2009

I made this list for myself a few weeks ago. I love the hand drawn ele­ment added to web designs/ site tem­plates. I was doing some myself, post­ing draw­ings I had done to my per­sonal blog. I would like to get back to that.
Any­way, here for your view­ing plea­sure… my list of resources for cre­at­ing your […]

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Pretty Simple Site Promotion Ignored

July 28, 2009

It bugs me when I go to a busi­ness or char­ity type of site and find they have noth­ing extra to offer me. Not only is it harder and harder to find a real way of con­tact­ing any­one online but they are often really skimpy on con­tent too. What are they sav­ing it for? Why […]

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Playing Footsie with your Site

June 20, 2009

Can you do more with your site’s footer? This post from Smash­ing Mag­a­zine has a lot of ideas and design styles. The Blog Her­ald also wrote about mak­ing bet­ter use of your footer.
I thought the best idea was adding a site map or at least a link to take you back to the top of […]

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Twitter Me This

April 4, 2009

Design Reviver has a post with “25 of the Best Designed Twit­ter Home­pages”. Nice to see what peo­ple have done within the lim­i­ta­tions of Twit­ter pro­files.  If you are on Twit­ter have you done any­thing more than the stan­dard with your pro­file? It might not seem too impor­tant but each chance to stretch your creativity […]

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Personal Choices in Weblog Templates

January 27, 2009

How often do you change or cus­tomize your blog’s tem­plate (theme, your word of choice)? I find there is only so much I want to change through tweak­ing and the rest I hope to find in the tem­plate I pick. There are cer­tain things I always look for, mainly to do with read­abil­ity. I like […]

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Top Five Blog Tips

November 20, 2008

Yes, you can be happy with a blog which doesn’t have all of these but we are all just a bit greedy for a lit­tle fame. Here is what you can do.
1. Con­tent. Con­tent is still king. It is what you have to offer. Have some­thing to say. Say it in a way that is readable. […]

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Lost in Commentary

November 18, 2008

One more thing to look at when you pick a new tem­plate for your blog… can you tell which com­ments go with which post?
I’ve been find­ing it hard to tell. I tend to read more than the top post in a blog. So when I am some­where down the mid­dle and look­ing to leave a comment […]

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Risk your Blog

March 25, 2008

Word Grrls is going to get a make over. Not one of my own home spun half-geeked things. A real pro­fes­sional is going to work on it. I had thought to do it for That Grrl, my per­sonal site. But, kind of a shame to do it there (I’ve already given that blog so many […]

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Navigation, Style and Content

September 4, 2006

What are the keys to a good web­site? I think there are 3 main things. I have cre­ated this list from many years (since 1998) spent review­ing web­sites.
Nav­i­ga­tion, style and con­tent. You can adapt that to NSC, or not. Not works for me, I’m not even sure how to say that.
Any­way, nav­i­ga­tion is prob­a­bly the most […]

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A Writer’s Website

May 15, 2006

Here are my ideas about mak­ing a writer’s site an asset to you and a resource for oth­ers to come to. It’s a bit scat­tered as I am leav­ing for Ottawa tomor­row and have some fam­ily stuff ongo­ing. But, I wanted to share the ideas while they were brew­ing around in my brain.
I think blogs are […]

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Website Tinkering and Tampering

April 10, 2006

Some­one told me that the front page of my per­sonal site is just a webring page. I was really peeved! I’ve worked hard to make that a nice entrance way. It still seems kind of unpro­fes­sional and “needs improve­ment” but it’s so much bet­ter than my first few ver­sions. I’m get­ting the hang of tables. […]

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