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The Principles of Design: Clarity
- Layout & Design
- March 25, 2015
Tell a clear story with your design.
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…
Measure Twice, Cut Once
- Beginner
- September 10, 2014
Planning your content first can help you choose the right theme.
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…
Showcase: 10 Themed Blogs that Rock
- Layout & Design
- February 17, 2011
Congratulations to the following bloggers for being included in our first Daily Post showcase. Not only do you post fantastic…
How do you decide when a post is ready to publish?
- Topic Ideas
- February 22, 2011
Topic #54 Here’s a meta topic, which should illustrate that if you don’t know what to blog about, you can…
If you could have anything to eat right now, what would it be?
- Topic Ideas
- February 23, 2011
Topic #55 If you could have anything to eat right now, what would it be? Bonuses: 1) Assume price is…
Describe your first encounter with a celebrity
- Topic Ideas
- April 27, 2011
Topic #110: Describe your first encounter with a celebrity Bonus: What celebrity would you most want to meet? Least?
A WordPresser’s reflection on her first year of blogging
- General Advice & Pro Tips
- February 22, 2011
Post a Week participant Donna, author of Huffygirl’s Blog, recently celebrated her first blogoversary. In A look back: my first…
Write about a mistake you can learn from
- Topic Ideas
- May 10, 2011
Topic #122: On this day in 1863, General Stonewall Jackson died after having been shot by his own troops seven…
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