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Wake, Woke, Awake, Awoken
- Language & Grammar
- March 15, 2012
A reader responded to my post about irregular verbs last week to express confusion about when to use “awake” and…
An Intro to CSS, or How to Make Things Look Like You Like
- Advanced
- June 21, 2013
What is CSS? It’s the design of your site — special code that tells your site how to display things…
An Intro to CSS: Finding CSS Selectors
- Advanced
- July 25, 2013
Last month, we introduced a series on CSS (Cascading Stylesheets) and talked a bit about how you can use CSS…
The $64,000 Question: WordPress.com or WordPress.org?
- Advanced
- November 14, 2013
If you’ve been using WordPress.com for very long, you’ve likely run into some variation of the grand “com v. org”…
Choosing the Perfect Blog Name: Two WordPressers Share Their Secrets
- Beginner
- November 13, 2012
The bloggers at Raising My Rainbow and Where’s My Toothbrush? talk about how they chose their blog names.
Intro to CSS: Previewing Changes with the Matched Rule Pane
- Advanced
- August 29, 2013
In the last Intro to CSS post, we looked at how to identify selectors that you can target in your…
The Art of the Open Letter
- Intermediate
- August 13, 2013
Want to try writing an open letter? Take a look at these examples for inspiration.
Quick Tip: Tagging for Shelf Life
- Beginner
- February 12, 2015
Keep your posts visible in the Reader for a longer time with smart tag choices.
Finding Inspiration for Your Site Title
- Beginner
- February 3, 2015
New to WordPress.com and pondering the perfect site name? Or, been around for a while but sense the need to change? Let’s brainstorm together.
Quick Tip — Backgrounds: Use Your Inside Voice
- Beginner
- March 19, 2014
A study in making good choices for your site’s background.
Set the Scene with a Three-Picture Story
- The Craft of Photography
- February 19, 2014
I upload sets of photos to my photoblog and use images to liven up posts here all the time, but…
Choosing the Perfect Blog Name: She’s a Maineiac
- Beginner
- December 18, 2013
A Q&A with Darla, the blogger at She’s a Maineiac, on how she picked her blog name.
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