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Responsive Web Design: The Gold Standard
Considered to be a fad when introduced, Tablets are quickly replacing PCs and Tablet sales are likely to surpass PCs by 2015. Worldwide PC shipments are down 11 percent. So, as Peter Cashmore...
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Better Blogging by the Numbers
Want to find blogging tips, tools and tutorials in this blog fast? This index of links to blogging tips articles in list post format that itemize ways to build a better blog, become a better blogger...
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More Christmas freebies for your blog
Every year I do some web surfing to locate free Christmas graphics. Below are sites I selected I this year. Also visit Free Christmas blog headers and graphics, a collection which has been updated...
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Colors! We have colors!
There is an exciting new color palette feature addition that WordPress.com bloggers using eight free themes will enjoy. Eight free themes, including Superhero, Writr, Spun, Panel, Zoren, Fontfolio,...
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More Sources of Free Images for Blogs and Websites
There are thousands of free photos available online and stock images do not have a negative impact on search engine rankings. So don’t let the lack of a camera prevent you from enhancing your posts...
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Spring Favorites: Refresh Your Blog
To attract an audience and keep it we bloggers need to do more than publishing fresh content. We also need to repair and replace what`s broken, refresh our theme and breath new life into our content....
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What Makes a Brief Blog Post Memorable?
The most successful posts on your blog won’t necessarily be the posts in a standard post format. These days bloggers blog on the go, and WordPress offers 10 unique formats that can be assigned to...
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Mobile Friendly Theme or Responsive Width Theme?
The mobile explosion has yet to crest but visitors are accessing our blogs via mobiles and tablets is on the rise and affecting on blog design. Continue reading →
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WordPress.com Media Makeover
As an early Hanukkah/Christmas/Kwanzaa gift to us all WordPress.com changed the entire format for image uploading, editing, creating slideshows and galleries. Predictably, the support forum has been...
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12 Website Navigation Guidelines
Recent studies indicate we bloggers now have as few as 30 seconds to impress or lose the attention of a visitor. While there is no one correct way to move visitors around your site good web design...
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Weekend Blogging Reads and Resources
Another week is almost gone and I’m wondering where it went. Here’s my weekly offering for you readers. Blog Log #2: The One Thing I Wish Someone Had Told Me When I Started Blogging – When you first...
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Mobile Growth and Blogging
The growth of mobile use shows no signs of slowing. A new report suggests by the end of 2013, there will be more mobile devices on Earth than people. Mobile data traffic worldwide will increase 13...
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Mobile Technology in Classrooms
Desktop and laptop computers have long been a staple in middle and high schools but that is rapidly changing. Schools across the USA are spending billions on various kinds of technology for the...
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Which Widgets are Essential?
Blogs are as different from each other as bloggers interests are, but widgets are commonly used to add content and features to sidebars and or footer areas on any blog. They can also provide navigation...
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Yellow Fonts, Contrast, And Clarity| Light Reading
I’m eagerly awaiting activation of this custom colors feature on free themes. There are some themes that I would be using now, if we had the ability to set custom colors without having to pay for a...
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WordPress.com Dashboard Facelift Feedback
We’ve being using the updated WordPress dashboard, a work in progress since early last month and I’m giving this dashboard makeover a thumbs up. No new features have been added and the arrangement has...
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Searching for the perfect WordPress.com theme
WordPress.com bloggers do not have FTP access to free hosted WordPress.com blogs and we not able to upload third party themes. However, we have a fabulous selection of attractive themes with many...
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Calendars, Countdown Timers and Messages for WordPress.com blogs
Google Calendar is a free calendar application from Google that makes it easy to keep track of life’s important events all in one place. Upcoming Events is a widget and a shortcode that allows you to...
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WordPress.com Theme Choice: Twenty Eleven
Between 2011 – 2012 I noted those visiting my blog using mobiles and tablets were on the rise. I also noted the affects the mobile explosion was having on blog design and learned either selecting a...
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WordPress.com Theme Tips
Every WordPress.com theme has some customizable features – features that vary in number, kind and location from theme to theme. You can select from a wide assortment of themes for no charge. Or you can...
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20 Gov’t Sources of Free Images for Your Blog
Regardless of where you live your federal, state, regional and local governments can be sources of public domain images and other media for use in your blog. So don’t let the lack of a camera stop you...
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8 Hot WordPress.com Widget Tips
All WordPress.com themes are widget-activated. This is the main link to all the available widgets that WordPress.com provides – Widgets & Sidebars. Clicking links on that page for individual...
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Twenty Fourteen: Going Further
The New WordPress default theme; ‘Twenty Fourteen’ is a dark magazine styled beauty with balanced use of white space that’s absolutely packed useful and eye-popping features. From lovely typography and...
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Social Media Icons for WordPress.com Blogs
Enhancing your WordPress.com blog’s accessibility and share-ability with social networking icons can be a quick coffee break set up or a longer project. It all depends on the theme you use. Enabling...
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WordPress.com Themes with Automatic Excerpts
Do you want a WordPress.com theme with a magazine style layout that provides your readers with brief front page previews (teasers) of posts to select from and click into without you having to insert...
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WordPress.com Retired Themes
Have you ever wondered what the most to least popular FREE WordPress.com themes are? Has your theme been retired? If you were to chose another theme which one would it be? From time to time older...
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OMG! My images are gone
Just imagine what it would be like to log into your blog and find your pictures are missing. What to do? Provided you are running a current browser version and don’t have a browser related issue, then...
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WordPress Automatic Image Resizing
WordPress.com Staff are continually working to improve our user experience. The result of their latest work is a welcome media update change to the way WordPress resizes images when theme changes are...
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Freshen Your Theme with Seasonal Touches
You can freshen your blog appearance in many ways that reflect seasonal changes and holidays that range from changing themes temporarily to less dramatic decorative changes to the theme you are using...
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Maintaining Your Site’s Ranking
Newer domains and websites pass older sites all the time. How can an older site maintain its ranking over time? Matt Cutts, of Google answered that question in January 2014. Tune in, listen and learn....
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