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The Principles of Design: Clarity
- Layout & Design
- March 25, 2015
Tell a clear story with your design.
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.
SEO and Your Blog
- Blogging Etiquette
- April 11, 2013
A couple of weeks ago, I wrote a post for the WordPress.com blog about how SEO works on WordPress.com, and…
How to Publish Posts that Search Engines Will Love
- General Advice & Pro Tips
- March 10, 2016
Explore the six elements that can help push your blog to the top of the search rankings.
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…
The Web is Your Oyster: Where to Find Free-to-Use Images
- Beginner
- April 30, 2014
Browse sites that offer high-quality, free-to-use images for your personal projects — like your blog or website — or commercial work.
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…
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…
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…
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