CategoryBlog Design

Today, Amir Helzer from WPML (WordPress Multilingual) shares his experience building a custom WordPress theme. When you’re designing your blog all sorts of options are open to you – starting with a free theme (that you can later edit), through a premium customizable theme (like Thesis or Revolution2) and ending ...more

Regular readers of ProBlogger know that I’m a fan of Chris Pearson and his popular Thesis theme for WordPress. I’ve been using Thesis on TwiTip since I started that blog back in November and have been very satisfied with it. Chris has just launched version 1.5 of Thesis – a ...more

Upgrading your blog platform? This guest post from Sid Savara, who writes about personal development and personal productivity is for you. If you’re a Thesis user (like me) you may have had some issues recently when upgrading to version 1.4. The issues affected a minority of Thesis users, and required ...more

This post is the 2nd in a two part series in which Matt Brett shares how he approached redesigning Digital Photography School. Read Part 1 Here. When it came to developing the new Digital Photography School, the real challenge was brought to the table. How was I going to house ...more

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 ...more

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 ...more

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 ...more

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 ...more

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 ...more