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Blog Design: How Many Columns?

April 7, 2007 – 5:43 am

Mark from Weblog Tools Collection offers Two or Three Columns?, his perspective on how many columns a blog should have. I personally prefer one column themes with a minimal second column. Most information that is put on my sidebar(s) is extraneous and could be placed elsewhere. I have also found that some of that information […]

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Lorelle is Naked

April 4, 2007 – 11:31 pm

Oh, no. Don’t look, Ethel! Yes, Lorelle is naked. Well, at least Lorelle on WordPress is naked. Today, April 5th, is CSS Naked Day, a day bloggers and website owners can honor web page design and designers around the world by turning off your stylesheet for the day. UPDATE: Over 1600 sites are listed as […]

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Blog Building: Who Controls Your Blog? You? Your Host?

March 31, 2007 – 4:08 am

Do You Own Your Website? by Healthy Web Design takes a good look at the hidden pain and suffering and control that comes from choosing a cheap web host for your blog compared to making a conscious business decision on how to host your blog. It’s true, companies such as Yahoo!, SiteBuilder, and Homestead offer […]

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Don’t Get Rid of Your Home Link: How to Add a Home Link

March 22, 2007 – 5:02 am

I’m finding a new trend in web page design which removes the “home” link or button. Here is an example of how frustrating it is. I’ve found a delightful blog post. I’m thrilled with the content and want to learn more about what else is on the blog and who is blogging this prize example […]

By Lorelle VanFossen | Posted in blogging tips, Web Design, WordPress, WordPress Themes, WordPress Tips | Tags: , , , , , , , , | Comments (43)

Join the Conversation on Why Web Typography Sucks

March 17, 2007 – 8:38 am

Clagnut again tackles “Web Typography Sucks”, a favorite subject, but this time it is also in reference to the presentation given recently at the SxSW conference in Texas. The post continues the conversation about the issues that confronts web designers today dealing with web fonts, and also includes reference to the slides and references from […]

By Lorelle VanFossen | Posted in Web Design, WordPress | Tags: , , , , | Comments (6)

The Battle Over Centering on the Longest Line in CSS

March 16, 2007 – 5:02 am

There are a lot of things easy to do in print that web designers struggle to emulate when they take print designs to the web. One of those challenges is centering text on the longest line. Clagnut takes on “centering text on the longest line” to show you how to make this almost impossible task […]

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Blog, Online Magazine, and Ezine: What’s the Difference?

March 15, 2007 – 5:01 am

In the Blog Squad’s article, Recipe for an Ezine, the core elements that make a blog or website into a successful ezine, an online magazine, are: We have found ezines that work well for attracting new clients usually have these eight key ingredients: 1. A great name that defines the topic 2. A defined audience […]

By Lorelle VanFossen | Posted in blogging tips, Web Design, Web Wise, WordPress, Writing | Tags: , , , , | Comments (19)

Accomplished: WPDesigners One Month Challenge on WordPress Themes

February 17, 2007 – 7:12 am

Small Potatoes of WPDesigner has completed the task of a WordPress Theme a day for the past month, as of tomorrow. Amazing. And what makes this Ridiculously Mind-Numbing WordPress Self-Challenge even more of an accomplishment is the release of WordPress 2.1 in the middle of the challenge, bringing with it new WordPress template tags and […]

By Lorelle VanFossen | Posted in Web Design, WordPress, WordPress News, WordPress Themes | Tags: , , , , , , , , , | Comments (6)

Building a Web 2.0 Library Website

January 26, 2007 – 3:38 am

Karen Coombs of Information Today offers “Building a Library Website on the Pillars of Web 2.0, a great look at how to create a very user friendly, content management system with social software, blogs, link logs, tagging, wikis, podcasts, feeds, and other web services. “Web 2.0” is transforming the Web into a space that allows […]

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Are Web Page Link Previews Here to Stay?

January 18, 2007 – 3:30 am

According to Read/Write Web’s article, “Browster is Gone, But Are Web Previews Here to Stay”, the first company to produce programming to preview web pages is now gone, but there are many others battling for popularity on the web. I recently made my opinion very clear that I find Snap Preview Anywhere exceptionally annoying on […]

By Lorelle VanFossen | Posted in blogging tips, Web Design, Web Wise, WordPress | Tags: , , , , | Comments (21)

The Debate Over Comments and Trackbacks

January 10, 2007 – 2:18 am

Which came first? The comment or the trackback? Or should I be more clear in my question? Which should come first? The comments or the trackbacks? I have long been a fan of separating trackbacks from comments. Comments are the dialog and trackbacks are the outside discussions, incoming links from sites discussing the topic on […]

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2007 Year of the Widget

January 8, 2007 – 3:13 am

Newsweek saluted 2007 as the Year of the Widget (print version): …thanks to widgets, taking multiple steps to track down headlines in one place and then check your e-mail in another may seem woefully outdated this time next year. These mini-applications—also called “gadgets”—are simple bits of code, easily dragged onto a desktop or pasted into […]

By Lorelle VanFossen | Posted in Web Design, WordPress, WordPress Themes, WordPress Tips, WordPressDotCom | Tags: , , , , , , , , , | Comments (5)

Clagnut Compares Mac and PC Browser Font Rendering

December 28, 2006 – 3:23 am

Clagnut recently posted “Problems with font rendering on Macs”, an interesting and technical look at the issue of browser fonts on Macs. If you are designing with Mac in mind, as well as other browsers and operating systems, Clagnut’s comparison of Camino 1.2, Safari 2, Firefox 2, and Opera 9 might help your web font […]

By Lorelle VanFossen | Posted in Web Design, WordPress, WordPress Themes | Tags: , , , , | Comments (2)

Airline Weather Drama: Handling Emergency Announcements on Your Site

December 22, 2006 – 1:18 pm

Our reliance and dependence upon the Internet is clearly growing, as evidenced by recent weather dramas around the world. In England, British Airways website “crashed and burned” as passengers got online to find out whether or not their flight had been canceled due to extreme fog conditions. Thousands of passengers were stranded when British Airways […]

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Heat Map Layout of Top 10 Technorati Blogs

December 12, 2006 – 3:08 am

ProBlogger’s Darren Rowse points us to Healthbolt’s “Color Coded Above the Fold Composite Map of the Top 10 Blogs on Technorati”, a “heat map” of the most popular blogs layout. As can be predicted, the hottest spots for advertising points in a layout are across the top and down the right side of a web […]

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