CategoryBlog Design

Win a Copy of Web Design for ROI
6th of February 2008 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

Win a Copy of Web Design for ROI

One of the books that I’ve been enjoying lately is Web Design for ROI: Turning Browsers into Buyers & Prospects into Leads. It might surprise regular readers who know that I’m a self confessed web design dummy to know that I’ve been reading (and enjoying) a book about this topic ...more
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10 Remarkable (and Free) WordPress Themes
19th of January 2008 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

10 Remarkable (and Free) WordPress Themes

The following post on great free WordPress Templates was written by Reese Spykerman from Design by Reese. A search for free WordPress themes yields thousands of results, some dull or cluttered, some utilitarian, and many inspiring and beautiful. Numerous other well-designed WordPress themes are available to you, but these are ...more
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How I Redesigned My Blog [by Ben Yoskovitz]
8th of January 2008 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

How I Redesigned My Blog [by Ben Yoskovitz]

One blogger that I read regularly and have come to respect over the last few years is Benjamin Yoskovitz from Instigator Blog. Yesterday Ben and I were chatting on skype and he mentioned that today he was launching a new design on his blog. I liked what I saw of ...more
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Who Designed Your Blog? [POLL RESULTS]
6th of January 2008 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

Who Designed Your Blog? [POLL RESULTS]

Over the last couple of weeks I ran a poll here at ProBlogger which asked readers who designed their blogs. 1828 readers responded in total (thanks everyone). DIY – The results showed that 57% of you either considerably tweaked a free template (35%) or designed your blog from scratch yourself ...more
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Improve Your Blog with a Custom Made Theme
1st of January 2008 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

Improve Your Blog with a Custom Made Theme

Today John Chow answers my question about how he improved his blog in 2007. This question is an easy one to answer because there was one thing I did to my blog in 2007 that impacted it more than anything else I have ever tired for John Chow dot Com. ...more
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Who Designed Your Blog?
17th of December 2007 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

Who Designed Your Blog?

Time for a new Poll. Who designed your blog? I’m sure there will be other options to those that I included. If you don’t feel your situation is covered feel free to leave a comment below and tell us your answer. {democracy:28} I’d also be interested to hear about your ...more
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Web Graphics Training Course (Photoshop)
25th of November 2007 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

Web Graphics Training Course (Photoshop)

Do you want to learn how to make great graphics for your blog? Over at Digital Photography School I only promote a very small group of quality products to my readers. One of the most popular is a Photoshop training resource called Pro Photo Secrets by a fellow Aussie – ...more
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Be Brave – Break Your Blog
25th of November 2007 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

Be Brave – Break Your Blog

The following post on ‘breaking your blog’ and setting up test blogs was submitted by Michael Martin from Pro Blog Design. One of the best kept secrets in design is that we don’t always know what we’re doing. Understanding design theory and color and all the rest of it is ...more
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Blog Design – When to Go for a Professional Template?
17th of November 2007 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

Blog Design – When to Go for a Professional Template?

Time for a little reader discussion. This one is inspired by a question from Frederico from Tutorialstream.com who is considering starting a new blog and asks: I was wondering if you think that starting with a standard/free/low quality template and after some time (when I have some kind of readership) ...more
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