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		<title>30 GREAT SITES USING WORDPRESS AS A CMS</title>
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Wordpress is the rattling customizable and developer friendly. You crapper attain meet most some website you hit in nous with it; blog, portfolio, gallery, e-store, etc.
WordPress is such more than meet a blogging platform. If you ease wager it that way, you module modify your saucer of view after sight these enthusiastic sites using WordPress [...]]]></description>
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<p>Wordpress is the rattling <strong>customizable</strong> and developer friendly. You crapper attain meet most some website you hit in nous with it; blog, portfolio, gallery, e-store, etc.</p>
<p>WordPress is such more than meet a blogging platform. If you ease wager it that way, <strong>you module modify your saucer of view</strong> after sight these enthusiastic sites using WordPress as a CMS.</p>
<p>Click on an ikon to wager the place in full!</p>
<p><strong>1. The author Story</strong></p>
<p><a href="http://www.thefordstory.com/"><img src="http://seo.portua.net/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/5d428_ford.jpg" alt="ford" width="560" height="235" /></a></p>
<p><strong>2. <strong>UX Booth</strong></strong></p>
<p><a href="http://www.uxbooth.com/"><img src="http://seo.portua.net/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/15e98_uxbooth.jpg" alt="uxbooth" width="560" height="235" /></a></p>
<p><strong>3. <strong>OurLife</strong></strong><br />
<a href="http://ourlifehealth.com/"><img src="http://seo.portua.net/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/9b2be_ourlife.jpg" alt="ourlife" width="560" height="235" /></a></p>
<p><strong>4. Network Solutions</strong><br />
<a href="http://about.networksolutions.com/"><img src="http://seo.portua.net/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/5f9d7_networksolutions.jpg" alt="networksolutions" width="560" height="235" /></a></p>
<p><strong>5. Texas Tech Tody</strong><br />
<a href="http://today.ttu.edu/"><img src="http://seo.portua.net/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/0b13b_ttt.jpg" alt="ttt" width="560" height="235" /></a></p>
<p><strong>6.Tumberline Lodge </strong><br />
<a href="http://www.timberlinelodge.com/"><img src="http://seo.portua.net/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/a6c60_tumberline.jpg" alt="tumberline" width="560" height="235" /></a></p>
<p><strong>7.Department of Environmental Sciences</strong><br />
<a href="http://www.evsc.virginia.edu/"><img src="http://seo.portua.net/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/d9142_departementofenviromental.jpg" alt="departementofenviromental" width="560" height="235" /></a></p>
<p><strong>8. Outreach Magazine</strong><br />
<a href="http://outreachmagazine.uga.edu/"><img src="http://seo.portua.net/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/3fdb4_outreach.jpg" alt="outreach" width="560" height="235" /></a></p>
<p><strong>9. Boys and Girls Club of the Midlands</strong><br />
<a href="http://www.bgcomaha.org/"><img src="http://seo.portua.net/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/1523a_bgc.jpg" alt="bgc" width="560" height="235" /></a></p>
<p><strong>10. BigGovHealth</strong><br />
<a href="http://www.biggovhealth.org/"><img src="http://seo.portua.net/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/52bd2_big-gov-health.jpg" alt="big-gov-health" width="560" height="235" /></a></p>
<p><strong>11. Studi Plus</strong><br />
<a href="http://www.soutien-scolaire-cherbourg.fr/"><img src="http://seo.portua.net/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/021b9_studiplus.jpg" alt="studiplus" width="560" height="235" /></a></p>
<p><strong>12. Maquina Dos Azteca</strong><br />
<a href="http://www.maquinadosazteca.com/"><img src="http://seo.portua.net/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/e0078_mazt.jpg" alt="mazt" width="560" height="235" /></a></p>
<p><strong>13. Jim DeMint</strong><br />
<a href="http://www.jimdemint.com/home/"><img src="http://seo.portua.net/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/ade17_jimdemint.jpg" alt="jimdemint" width="560" height="235" /></a></p>
<p><strong>14 .Brazilian Culture Ministry</strong><br />
<a href="http://www.cultura.gov.br/site/"><img src="http://seo.portua.net/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/a0bd8_ministreofculturebrazil.jpg" alt="ministreofculturebrazil" width="560" height="235" /></a></p>
<p><strong>15. Andy Roddick</strong><br />
<a href="http://www.andyroddick.com/"><img src="http://seo.portua.net/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/f5cf7_andyroddick.jpg" alt="andyroddick" width="560" height="235" /></a></p>
<p><strong>16. WSJ. Magazine</strong><br />
<a href="http://magazine.wsj.com/"><img src="http://seo.portua.net/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/98dde_wsj.jpg" alt="wsj" width="560" height="235" /></a></p>
<p><strong>17. Casa de Moneda</strong><br />
<a href="http://www.casademoneda.cl/"><img src="http://seo.portua.net/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/eb508_casa.jpg" alt="casa" width="560" height="235" /></a></p>
<p><strong>18. R&amp;W Mosman and Neutral Bay Real Estate</strong><br />
<a href="http://www.rwm.com.au/"><img src="http://seo.portua.net/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/a1ec5_r-and-w.jpg" alt="r-and-w" width="560" height="235" /></a></p>
<p><strong>19. TV Tonight</strong><br />
<a href="http://www.tvtonight.com.au/"><img src="http://seo.portua.net/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/a759b_tvtonight.jpg" alt="tvtonight" width="560" height="235" /></a></p>
<p><strong>20. Spotify</strong><br />
<a href="http://www.spotify.com/en/"><img src="http://seo.portua.net/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/56b0a_spotify.jpg" alt="spotify" width="560" height="235" /></a></p>
<p><strong>21. HoldFire Hosting </strong><br />
<a href="http://holdfire.net/"><img src="http://seo.portua.net/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/54d9d_holdfire.jpg" alt="holdfire" width="560" height="235" /></a></p>
<p><strong>22. Utah Luxury</strong><br />
<a href="http://www.utahluxury.com/"><img src="http://seo.portua.net/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/5207e_utahluxury.jpg" alt="utahluxury" width="560" height="235" /></a></p>
<p><strong>23. Elemental</strong><br />
<a href="http://www.elemental.cz/"><img src="http://seo.portua.net/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/8a72e_elemental.jpg" alt="elemental" width="560" height="235" /></a></p>
<p><strong>24. North discoverer Democrats</strong><br />
<a href="http://www.northfultondemocrats.org/"><img src="http://seo.portua.net/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/f0846_nfd.jpg" alt="nfd" width="560" height="235" /></a></p>
<p><strong>25. <span>Ulster Grocer</span></strong><br />
<a href="http://www.ulstergrocer.com/"><img src="http://seo.portua.net/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/2de5c_ug.jpg" alt="ug" width="560" height="235" /></a></p>
<p><strong>26. <span>Ecoki</span></strong><br />
<a href="http://ecoki.com/"><img src="http://seo.portua.net/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/ff2b3_ecoki.jpg" alt="ecoki" width="560" height="235" /></a></p>
<p><strong>27. Rex Magazine</strong><br />
<a href="http://rex.tbreak.com/"><img src="http://seo.portua.net/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/00532_rex.jpg" alt="rex" width="560" height="235" /></a></p>
<p><strong>28. Restaurant Nuevo</strong><br />
<a href="http://www.nuevo-aurich.de/"><img src="http://seo.portua.net/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/d9673_food.jpg" alt="food" width="560" height="235" /></a></p>
<p><strong>29. Clazh</strong><br />
<a href="http://www.clazh.com/"><img src="http://seo.portua.net/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/72afa_clazh.jpg" alt="clazh" width="560" height="235" /></a></p>
<p><strong>30. Texture King</strong><br />
<a href="http://www.textureking.com/"><img src="http://seo.portua.net/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/38a92_tk.jpg" alt="tk" width="560" height="235" /></a></p>
<p>Hope you same the assemblage , if you undergo some<strong> inspiring</strong> sites same these then gratify deal them with us!</p>
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		<title>30 BAD PRACTICES OF WEB DESIGNERS</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 12:09:06 +0000</pubDate>
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Every erst in a patch you module become crossways a tender that just doesn&#8217;t seem &#8216;right&#8217;. There are threesome elements of a website that crapper be harmed by intense practice:

The website lacks something in its design.
The noesis is cursive badly.
The wager engines don&#8217;t aforementioned something most the site.

Considering the threesome points above, this article module [...]]]></description>
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<p>Every erst in a patch you module become crossways a tender that <strong>just doesn&#8217;t seem &#8216;right&#8217;</strong>. There are threesome elements of a website that crapper be harmed by intense practice:</p>
<ul>
<li>The website lacks something in its design.</li>
<li>The noesis is cursive badly.</li>
<li>The wager engines don&#8217;t aforementioned something most the site.</li>
</ul>
<p>Considering the threesome points above, this article module explains the do&#8217;s and dont&#8217;s of destined organisation habits.</p>
<h3>1. Using ancient markup</h3>
<p>Websites unification candid to technology, and profession is most ownership updated. In the epoch of XHTML, we requirement to ready updated with the standards to hit solidified websites. So instead of using that &lt;br&gt; tag, provide the &lt;br /&gt; a spin. Know where to consciousness near a attach or locate the doctype. For a beatific inventiveness for those prototypal markup, <a href="http://htmldog.com/" target="_blank">HTMLDog</a> has beatific tutorials to wager how it every works.</p>
<p><strong>Bad:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Using deprecated markup</li>
<li>Choosing not to ingest a doctype</li>
<li>Using plateau based layouts</li>
<li>Self-closing tags that shouldn&#8217;t be self-closed</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Good:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Using the smart and super markup that is fully-supported</li>
<li>Always using Doctypes</li>
<li>Using &lt;div&gt; tags for positioning</li>
<li>Using a CSS Stylesheet</li>
<li>Validating your markup with the W3C Validator</li>
</ul>
<h3>2. Choosing intrusive or distracting backgrounds</h3>
<p><img src="http://seo.portua.net/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/478bc_backgrounds1.jpg" alt="backgrounds" width="560" height="145" /></p>
<p>When the internet started, grouping were so astonished that they were healthy to publicize clog publically that they didn&#8217;t conceive most understandability and presentation. <strong>Choose a scenery that is attractive but doesn&#8217;t disconcert the reader</strong>.</p>
<p><strong>Bad:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Using a gleaming flushed scenery without a <em>very</em> beatific conceive to</li>
<li>Having tiled images that aren&#8217;t seamless</li>
<li>Using continuation enlivened GIF backgrounds</li>
<li>Using an ikon that is more eye-catching than the essential content</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Good:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Have an attractive scenery that does not disconcert the reader</li>
</ul>
<h3>3. Using &#8220;defaulty&#8221; fonts</h3>
<p>Technology crapper smash the laurels in a aggregation of disentangle typesets, not that Comic Sans was<em> ever </em>glorious. Times New Roman, Times, Comic Sans, Courier, and Courier New are whatever of the fonts that hit been seen ofttimes and ofttimes countenance unprofessional.</p>
<p><strong>Bad:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li> Using fonts that countenance full and unstyled</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Good:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Use full based typefaces</li>
<li>Using the CSS font-family concept to so the desirable type crapper start backwards on added if it isn&#8217;t installed</li>
<li>Using fonts that most computers hit (such as Garamond) and descending backwards on full based fonts</li>
</ul>
<h3>4. Having kindred book &amp; scenery colors</h3>
<p><img src="http://seo.portua.net/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/97a3c_hard-to-read.jpg" alt="hard-to-read" width="560" height="145" /></p>
<p>Text on a webpage is prefabricated for the viewer to feature the tender understandably and easily. <strong>Nearly every websites are shapely for the individual to ingest information.</strong> By having the book colouration the aforementioned as the scenery color, it won&#8217;t be as cushy to feature and Google module penalise you for it. This goes for some book as well. If you hit albescent book on a Stygian wear background, but there is a background-color somewhere added in the  writing that is also white, it also isn&#8217;t beatific for SEO.</p>
<p><strong>Bad:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li> Giving lowercase oppositeness between the book and background</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Good:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Have a beatific oppositeness between book and scenery colours without making it albescent book on a black background.</li>
</ul>
<h3>5. Tables</h3>
<p><img src="http://seo.portua.net/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/cba92_tables.jpg" alt="tables" width="560" height="145" /></p>
<p>Tables are an disreputable method of noesis positioning utilised backwards in the period that <strong>fills up your markup with a aggregation of player code</strong> using &lt;table&gt;, &lt;td&gt;, &lt;th&gt; and &lt;tr&gt; tags. Tables are an superior and cushy to add artefact to exhibit tabular data, but when using hornlike nested tables instead of DIVs, beatific phenomenon with redaction it. Use &lt;div&gt; tags! <a href="http://www.problogdesign.com/design/how-to-style-your-articles-differently-using-html-tables/">See an warning of a comely ingest of tables</a>.</p>
<p><strong>Bad:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Using tables for layouts</li>
<li>Using tables for anything added than tabular data</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Good:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Using tables to pass charts and added structure of displaying tabular data</li>
</ul>
<h3>6. Bolding likewise such text</h3>
<p>It is beatific to place inflection on essential text, but by bolding likewise such text, it <strong>dilutes the determine of making the book bold</strong> and meet makes it stark hornlike to read. When utilised in brief sentences that vindicate a key bourgeois of the paragraph or article, it serves it&#8217;s determine rattling well.</p>
<p><strong>Bad:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Bolding whole paragraphs or pages</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Good:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Bolding diminutive fragments of essential text</li>
<li>Bolding book to accent modify labels</li>
</ul>
<h3>7. Writing for Google, not your viewers</h3>
<p><img src="http://seo.portua.net/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/9b225_google.jpg" alt="google" width="560" height="145" /></p>
<p>You haw hit seen websites with noesis that is plain to <em>try</em> and attain the wager engines happy. Some grouping thinks it helps to clog some keywords in their paragraphs so wager engines module aforementioned them more. You crapper attending the disagreement of how grouping ingest &#8220;keyword-stuffing&#8221; to merchandiser their website, and Google crapper wager this modify more, and module penalise you for it. For example, if Problogdesign.com was to be summarized in a paragraph:</p>
<p><strong>Good statement of Pro Blog Design:</strong></p>
<blockquote><p>Pro Blog Design is a inventiveness for scheme designers that provides aggregation most creating and maintaining an trenchant journal with exciting tutorials and inspiration.</p>
</blockquote>
<p><strong>Bad description:</strong></p>
<blockquote><p>Web Design Blog, Pro Blog Design, is a inventiveness and agency for scheme designers &amp; website developers that provides tutorials and aggregation for website designers &amp; bloggers most creating trenchant blogs, maintaining blogs, scheme organisation inspiration, blogging tutorials, and more.</p>
</blockquote>
<p>You crapper attending the plethora in the ordinal description. Search engines mostly don&#8217;t verify this kindly, so gratify indite for humans.</p>
<h3>8. Not attractive plus of CSS shorthand</h3>
<p>CSS Shorthand is utilised to invoke some CSS properties into digit to attain the enter filler diminutive and a preparation document. It is ofttimes utilised for borders, padding, margins, and backgrounds. Use it as oft as doable to behave your tender alluviation time.</p>
<p><strong>Bad:</strong><br />
<code>.class {<br />
padding-left: 3px;<br />
margin-right: 6px;<br />
padding-top: 10px;<br />
padding-right: 9px;<br />
margin-left: 6px;<br />
background-image: url('images/happy.jpg');<br />
background-position: bottom;<br />
background-repeat: repeat-x;<br />
background-color: #E2CCCC;<br />
}<br />
</code></p>
<p><strong>Good:</strong><br />
<code>.class {<br />
padding: 10px 9px 0 3px;<br />
margin: 0 6px;<br />
background: url('images/happy.jpg') repeat-x #E2CCCC bottom;<br />
}<br />
</code></p>
<h3>9. Having tautological CSS</h3>
<p>Keep an receptor discover for having <strong>redeclared CSS properties</strong>. Let&#8217;s adopt a &lt;div&gt; has added &lt;div&gt; exclusive it. The parent &lt;div&gt; has a CSS concept to modify the book colouration to purple. There isn&#8217;t some saucer of having the aforementioned CSS concept informing the intrinsic DIV to hit colouration book because it inherits them from the parenting &lt;div&gt;.</p>
<p>Another warning of tautological CSS would be declarations that aren&#8217;t in use. Many grouping don&#8217;t ingest CSS Frameworks because there haw be some decent declarations.</p>
<h3>10. The epilepsy of a CMS</h3>
<p><img src="http://seo.portua.net/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/69061_wordpress.jpg" alt="wordpress" width="560" height="145" /></p>
<p>Today practically every websites are shapely with a Content Management System. The more you add and modify content, the more the wager engines module finger you. What alteration crapper it do?</p>
<p><strong>Five enthusiastic noesis direction systems:</strong></p>
<ol>
<li><a href="http://www.wordpress.org" target="_blank">Wordpress</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.joomla.org/" target="_blank">Joomla</a></li>
<li><a href="http://drupal.org/" target="_blank">Drupal</a></li>
<li><a href="http://expressionengine.com/" target="_blank">ExpressionEngine</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.cushycms.com/" target="_blank">Cushy</a></li>
</ol>
<h3>11. Using choice photoshop effects</h3>
<p><img src="http://seo.portua.net/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/ab5a2_photoshop-effect.jpg" alt="photoshop-effect" width="560" height="145" /></p>
<p>You staleness hit seen this somewhere on the internet. People sometimes ingest fat (especially red) book strokes or disagreeable uses of &#8220;emboss&#8221; or &#8220;twirl&#8221; that&#8217;s been seen so some nowadays that it meet looks terrible.<br />
<strong>Bad:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Using personalty likewise much</li>
<li>Using the choice gist settings</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Good:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Don&#8217;t rely on Photoshop personalty for your impact to countenance good. Use your uncolored talent</strong></li>
<li>You crapper modify the incomprehensibility of the personalty so they don&#8217;t countenance so harsh</li>
<li>Try to ready absent from the choice gist settings</li>
</ul>
<h3>12. Not validating</h3>
<p>It&#8217;s so cushy to reassert your markup by using the W3C Markup Validator. Always advert that decent cipher effectuation a meliorate cross-browser, cross-platform termination that module hit hold for some some years.</p>
<p><strong>Validators:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://validator.w3.org/" target="_blank">W3C HTML Validator</a></li>
<li><a href="http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/" target="_blank">W3C CSS Validator</a></li>
<li><a href="http://validator.w3.org/checklink" target="_blank">W3C Link Checker</a></li>
<li><a href="http://validator.w3.org/feed/" target="_blank">W3C RSS Validator</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.thrusites.com/tools/validator/index.php">ThruSites SEO Validator</a></li>
</ul>
<h3>13. Having untidy content</h3>
<p>Compare <a href="http://www.msn.com/">MSN</a>&#8217;s website to the <a href="http://www.getdropbox.com/">Dropbox</a> website. The aggregation on MSN doesn&#8217;t hit as effectively as Dropbox, because Dropbox has digit fix to pore on and MSN has 30 places to pore on.</p>
<p><strong>Bad:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Making noesis intimately crowded and cluttered</li>
<li>Delivering likewise such aggregation on the homepage</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Good:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Using line-spacing and artefact to distribute discover your content</li>
<li>Having a diminutive turn of aggregation on the homepage</li>
<li>Using sub-pages to not over-deliver the information</li>
</ul>
<h3>14. Using winkle intros</h3>
<p><img src="http://seo.portua.net/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/f0000_flash-intro.jpg" alt="flash-intro" width="560" height="145" /></p>
<p>Flash introductions are famous as &#8220;Google Blockers&#8221;. These intros are commonly on the stem address of sites, the most essential tender finished an SEO perspective. Most grouping poverty to intend correct to your noesis instead of watching the video, so it provides as added obstruction for effort the aggregation they&#8217;re hunting for.</p>
<h3>15. Using lots of book exclusive images</h3>
<p>Since wager spiders can&#8217;t feature finished pixels, it&#8217;s prizewinning to ready noesis and images separate. It also takes individual to alluviation the tender if the book is exclusive an image. If you poverty to verify plus of assorted fonts that aren&#8217;t web-supported, you crapper ever ingest text-replacement methods that won&#8217;t stymie the SEO (Problogdesign module hit a place on this soon, so meet tuned!).</p>
<h3>16. Unaligned content</h3>
<p>Ensure that images, paragraphs, and DIV&#8217;s hit comely artefact and margins so your tender cleanly lines up.</p>
<h3>17. The &lt;marquee&gt; tag</h3>
<p>Although a rattling simple, cushy gist that has a &#8220;wow&#8221; bourgeois in the play weeks of coding, the canopy takes absent from everything added in the page, is distracting, and is arduous to read. I&#8217;ve actually seen a programme locate that utilised an awesome smart canopy a some weeks ago, though it was the prototypal pleasant digit that I&#8217;ve seen in my 10 eld of internet browsing.</p>
<h3>18. Inconsistent navigation</h3>
<p><img src="http://seo.portua.net/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/e9553_inconsistent-nav.jpg" alt="inconsistent-nav" width="560" height="145" /></p>
<p>Try to change your guidance into a clean, presentable itemize with a ordinary countenance and feel. If apiece guidance component has a assorted size, shape, color, and position, grouping module &#8216;miss&#8217; it as existence the navigation.</p>
<h3>19. Link antiquity likewise fast</h3>
<p>Building alacritous course in generalized has the possibleness of penalizing or de-indexing your website. If someone makes 100 course in a period when they commonly intend digit or digit newborn inbound course a week, wager engines module be suspicious. If you would aforementioned to physique links, you crapper be on Google&#8217;s beatific lateral and ingest the <a href="http://dofollow.radpixels.com/">dofollow wager engine</a> and place a some comments every period on journal articles.</p>
<h3>20. (Bad) ingest of enlivened GIFs</h3>
<p>Generally speaking, enlivened GIFs are intense programme that cut grouping from what they should be hunting at: the content. Take a countenance at the <a href="http://www.aiseikai.or.jp/">Aiseikai Hospital</a> website. Even with a diminutive turn of aggregation on the page, the experience GIF images and canopy book attain the tender inform horribly.</p>
<h3>21. Images not optimized for web</h3>
<p>When action images as scheme graphics, it&#8217;s prizewinning to ingest Photoshop&#8217;s &#8220;Save for Web&#8221;, which module earmark you to behave it to hit a beatific equilibrise between calibre and weight time.</p>
<h3>22. No website hierarchy</h3>
<p>The most essential elements of a scheme tender should be the most prominent. The name, logo, and what you do is commonly more essential  than the headers, and the headers are more essential than the embody text. Balance discover the noesis on your tender so everything is in it&#8217;s individual sizes and permit the headers exposit the copy, so grouping crapper remove over it and feature the paragraph if it interests them.</p>
<h3>23. Having over 100 course on a page</h3>
<p><img src="http://seo.portua.net/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/de833_link-farm.jpg" alt="link-farm" width="560" height="145" /></p>
<p>Remember when it was ordinary to become crossways email pages that were null but links? These are famous as unification farms. Google penalizes websites that hit a super sort of course on it, especially when there&#8217;s no content.</p>
<p>On your blog, essay to ready the blogroll short, especially if it displays on every your pages so you secure you don&#8217;t hit likewise some links. Blogrolls also verify a aggregation of expanse on your page, so you crapper attain it non-intrusive <a href="http://www.problogdesign.com/wordpress/how-to-create-a-beautiful-dropdown-blogroll-without-javascript/">by using a snazzy dropdown</a>.</p>
<h3>24. Irrelevant Content</h3>
<p>This digit should go without saying, ready the noesis germane to what the locate is most so it keeps grouping fascinated in the site. Irrelevant noesis crapper penalise you in the wager engines likewise if the &lt;title&gt; attach doesn&#8217;t correct the content.</p>
<h3>25. Typos</h3>
<p>Use Spell Chek! You should also ready your eyes unclothed for ownership a conformable ornament for how you indite words. For example:</p>
<p>Grey or Gray</p>
<p>Web Site or Website</p>
<p>Ex: or Eg: or Example:</p>
<h3>26. 404 // Under Construction errors</h3>
<p><img src="http://seo.portua.net/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/04ac7_404-page.jpg" alt="404-page" width="560" height="145" /></p>
<p>Make your <a href="http://www.problogdesign.com/inspiration/35-most-creative-404-pages-around/">404 tender countenance nice</a> and hit course to candid the individual somewhere to go. 404 pages are a departed end, and departed ends ofttimes stingy bounces. By styling the 404 tender and providing links, grouping don&#8217;t wager aforementioned it&#8217;s an modify and they crapper move where they mitt off.</p>
<h3>27. Use of advertisements</h3>
<p>Informational sites aforementioned blogs ofttimes essay a lowercase taste of rectification finished sponsors. Try to sound the advertisements in with the tender organisation instead of descending them in anywhere. The smart way is to use<a href="http://www.buysellads.com"> buysellads.com</a> (especially for the school / organisation industries) and attain the advertisements conservativist and grid-aligned, which presents beautifully to the readers.</p>
<p><strong>Bad:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Using likewise some advertisements</li>
<li>Having advertisements that don&#8217;t &#8220;fit&#8221; in substantially with the person of the blog</li>
<li>Having dishonorable or opprobrious ads</li>
<li>Scattering ads discover randomly</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Good:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Using a medium sort of ads</li>
<li>Organizing the advertisements to countenance pleasant on your page</li>
<li>Selling ad expanse to pages with kindred noesis to draw targeted visitors</li>
</ul>
<h3>28. USING UPPERCASE TOO MUCH</h3>
<p>Most grouping module wager enthusiastic as outcry and anger. Many internet marketers ingest enthusiastic and flushed book in their online income pitches which inform horribly and modify up making them countenance desperate. Uppercase crapper countenance enthusiastic if it&#8217;s in diminutive dosages aforementioned headers or guidance text.</p>
<h3>29. Midi Music</h3>
<p>In most circumstances protocol penalization sounds tacky and unprofessional, and unless it&#8217;s a locate for a protocol composer, it serves lowercase determine and distracts the viewer.</p>
<h3>30. Getting <em>too </em>ahead of the times</h3>
<p>It&#8217;s enthusiastic to be warning and create an avant-garde website that delivers efficiently, but relying on empiric markup isn&#8217;t the prizewinning idea. Especially with CSS3 and HTML5 existence released, you hit to be trusty that the markup is degradable for grouping using senior browsers. For example, if you poverty to effort the newborn &lt;header&gt; or &lt;nav&gt; tags out, attain trusty you run them as elements so the senior browsers understand. Oh, and hunting for a MIME? HTML5 doesn&#8217;t requirement them!<br />
<code>&lt;script&gt;<br />
document.createElement('header');<br />
document.createElement('nav');<br />
&lt;/script&gt;<br />
</code></p>
<p>Do you occasionally <strong>slip into digit of these intense habits?</strong> What added intense practices do you conceive should be avoided?</p>
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As we said in our preceding post, 45 Creative Logo Designs for Inspiration, logos hit a big impact on how others analyse your journal or company. Logo organisation is digit of the hardest parts to fulfil as it is of great grandness in creating sort indistinguishability and consistency with your design.
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<p>As we said in our preceding post, <a href="http://www.problogdesign.com/inspiration/45-creative-logo-designs-for-inspiration/">45 Creative Logo Designs for Inspiration</a>, logos hit a <strong>big impact</strong> on how others analyse <strong>your journal or company.</strong> Logo organisation is digit of the hardest parts to fulfil as it is of <strong>great grandness in creating sort indistinguishability and consistency</strong> with your design.</p>
<p>To support with that, we hit composed <strong>31 unpaid trademark tutorials </strong>from around the web.</p>
<p><strong>Note: </strong>Click on the ikon to feature the tutorial.</p>
<p><h3>Crazy Cool</h3>
<p><strong><a href="http://abduzeedo.com/creating-crazy-cool-logo"><img src="http://seo.portua.net/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/72eb9_1-Custom1.jpg" alt="1 (Custom)" width="420" height="245" /></a></strong></p>
<p><h3>Mac Os X</h3>
<p><strong><a href="http://www.adobetutorialz.com/articles/2929/1/Mac-OS-X"><img src="http://seo.portua.net/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/40992_2-Custom1.jpg" alt="2 (Custom)" width="420" height="336" /></a></strong></p>
<p><h3>Nike</h3>
<p><strong><a href="http://abduzeedo.com/create-amazing-ad-photoshop"><img src="http://seo.portua.net/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/84d12_3-Custom1.jpg" alt="3 (Custom)" width="420" height="196" /></a></strong></p>
<p><h3>Folded  Typo</h3>
<p><strong><a href="http://abduzeedo.com/creating-very-cool-folded-typo"><img src="http://seo.portua.net/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/afe5d_4-Custom1.jpg" alt="4 (Custom)" width="420" height="124" /></a></strong><a><strong> </strong></a></p>
<p><a></p>
<h3>IE7</h3>
<p></a></p>
<p><strong><a href="http://abduzeedo.com/tutorial-creating-ie7-logo-effect-fireworks"><img src="http://seo.portua.net/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/f8e25_5-Custom1.jpg" alt="5 (Custom)" width="420" height="329" /></a></strong></p>
<h3>Milk Typography</h3>
<p><strong><a href="http://abduzeedo.com/awesome-milk-typography-effect-photoshop"></a><a href="http://abduzeedo.com/awesome-milk-typography-effect-photoshop"><img src="http://seo.portua.net/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/f9ee4_322.jpg" alt="32" width="420" height="213" /></a><br />
</strong></p>
<p><h3>Euro 2008</h3>
<p><strong><a href="http://www.eyesontutorials.com/articles/4622/1/EURO-2008-Logo-design/Page1.html"><img src="http://seo.portua.net/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/b3c8b_7-Custom1.jpg" alt="7 (Custom)" width="332" height="350" /></a></strong></p>
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<h3>Transformer</h3>
<p><strong><a href="http://www.adobetutorialz.com/articles/3036/1/Transformers-2:-Revenge-of-the-Fallen---movie-wallpaper"><img src="http://seo.portua.net/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/1a9c2_8-Custom1.jpg" alt="8 (Custom)" width="420" height="336" /></a></strong></p>
<p><h3>Bee Movie</h3>
<p><strong><a href="http://www.photoshopstar.com/text/recreate-the-bee-movie-text-effect/"><img src="http://seo.portua.net/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/b3de2_9-Custom1.jpg" alt="9 (Custom)" width="420" height="205" /></a></strong></p>
<p><h3>Star Wars</h3>
<p><strong><a href="http://www.tutzor.com/index.php/2008/06/star-wars-text-effect/"><img src="http://seo.portua.net/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/0701b_10-Custom1.jpg" alt="10 (Custom)" width="420" height="260" /></a></strong></p>
<p><h3>Obama Logo</h3>
<p><strong><a href="http://www.clickpopmedia.com/2008/08/07/vector-tutorial-obama-logo-2/"><img src="http://seo.portua.net/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/0916b_11-Custom1.jpg" alt="11 (Custom)" width="420" height="393" /></a></strong></p>
<p><h3>Collision</h3>
<p><strong><a href="http://www.gomediazine.com/tutorials/photoshop/illustrative-typography/"><img src="http://seo.portua.net/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/d355d_12-Custom1.jpg" alt="12 (Custom)" width="420" height="344" /></a></strong><a href="http://www.gomediazine.com/tutorials/photoshop/illustrative-typography/"><strong> </strong></a></p>
<p><h3>Leave</h3>
<p><strong><a href="http://www.gomediazine.com/tutorials/80s-style-design-photoshop/"><img src="http://seo.portua.net/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/ca2c9_13-Custom.jpg" alt="13 (Custom)" width="420" height="146" /></a></strong><a href="http://www.gomediazine.com/tutorials/80s-style-design-photoshop/"><strong> </strong></a></p>
<p><h3>Cool Frilly Bits</h3>
<p><strong><a href="http://abduzeedo.com/super-cool-frilly-bits-typography"><img src="http://seo.portua.net/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/27567_14-Custom1.jpg" alt="14 (Custom)" width="420" height="195" /></a></strong></p>
<p><h3>Dynamic Recessed Watercolor</h3>
<p><strong><a href="http://psd.tutsplus.com/tutorials/designing-tutorials/dynamic-recessed-watercolor-typography-in-photoshop/"><img src="http://seo.portua.net/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/87d1e_15-Custom1.jpg" alt="15 (Custom)" width="420" height="245" /></a></strong></p>
<p><h3>3D Typography Effect</h3>
<p><strong><a href="http://www.digitalartsonline.co.uk/tutorials/index.cfm?featureID=1617"><img src="http://seo.portua.net/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/00b4a_163.jpg" alt="16" width="420" height="367" /></a></strong><a href="http://www.digitalartsonline.co.uk/tutorials/index.cfm?featureID=1617"><strong> </strong></a></p>
<p><h3>Retro Effect</h3>
<p><strong><a href="http://psd.tutsplus.com/tutorials/text-effects-tutorials/how-to-quickly-create-a-stylish-retro-text-effect/"><img src="http://seo.portua.net/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/0c973_17-Custom1.jpg" alt="17 (Custom)" width="345" height="350" /></a></strong><a href="http://psd.tutsplus.com/tutorials/text-effects-tutorials/how-to-quickly-create-a-stylish-retro-text-effect/"><strong> </strong></a></p>
<p><h3>Glossy Leopard</h3>
<p><strong><a href="http://www.antsmagazine.com/2009/02/glossy-text-leopard-photoshop/"><img src="http://seo.portua.net/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/79834_18-Custom1.jpg" alt="18 (Custom)" width="420" height="309" /></a></strong></p>
<p><h3>Spectacular Grass Text</h3>
<p><strong> </strong><strong><a href="http://psd.tutsplus.com/tutorials/text-effects-tutorials/create-a-spectacular-grass-text-effect-in-photoshop/"><img src="../wp-content/uploads/2009/08/20-Custom1.jpg" alt="20 (Custom)" width="420" height="238" /></a></strong></p>
<p><h3>Flaming Meteor Effect</h3>
<p><strong><a href="http://psd.tutsplus.com/tutorials/text-effects-tutorials/create-a-spectacular-flaming-meteor-effect-on-text/"><img src="http://seo.portua.net/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/79834_19-Custom1.jpg" alt="19 (Custom)" width="420" height="307" /></a></strong></p>
<p><h3>3d Effect</h3>
<p><strong><a href="http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&amp;sl=es&amp;tl=en&amp;u=http://psdcreativo.com/texto-efecto-3d/&amp;prev=hp"><img src="http://seo.portua.net/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/9c308_21-Custom1.jpg" alt="21 (Custom)" width="420" height="306" /></a></strong><a href="http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&amp;sl=es&amp;tl=en&amp;u=http://psdcreativo.com/texto-efecto-3d/&amp;prev=hp"><strong> </strong></a></p>
<p><h3>3d Typography Effect</h3>
<p><strong><a href="http://www.antsmagazine.com/2009/02/3d-typography-effect-in-photoshop/"><img src="http://seo.portua.net/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/3c113_22-Custom1.jpg" alt="22 (Custom)" width="420" height="373" /></a></strong><a href="http://www.antsmagazine.com/2009/02/3d-typography-effect-in-photoshop/"><strong> </strong></a></p>
<p><h3>Ati</h3>
<p><strong><a href="http://www.eyesontutorials.com/articles/3434/1/Making-the-ATI-LOGO-photoshop-tutorial/Page1.html"><img src="http://seo.portua.net/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/45ce5_23-Custom1.jpg" alt="23 (Custom)" width="420" height="307" /></a></strong><a href="http://www.eyesontutorials.com/articles/3434/1/Making-the-ATI-LOGO-photoshop-tutorial/Page1.html"><strong> </strong></a></p>
<p><h3>Digg</h3>
<p><strong><a href="http://www.learnit2.com/photoshop/Digg-Logo/"><img src="http://seo.portua.net/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/944ee_24-Custom1.jpg" alt="24 (Custom)" width="420" height="419" /></a></strong><a href="http://www.learnit2.com/photoshop/Digg-Logo/"><strong> </strong></a></p>
<p><h3>Crest</h3>
<p><strong><a href="http://adobeperson.com/photoshop-basic-drawings/photoshop-create-crest-logo-tutorial-in-photoshop"><img src="http://seo.portua.net/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/b68b6_25-Custom1.jpg" alt="25 (Custom)" width="277" height="350" /></a></strong><a href="http://adobeperson.com/photoshop-basic-drawings/photoshop-create-crest-logo-tutorial-in-photoshop"><strong> </strong></a></p>
<p><h3>Vivid Ways</h3>
<p><strong><a href="http://www.blog.spoongraphics.co.uk/tutorials/logo-design-process-and-walkthrough-for-vivid-ways"><img src="http://seo.portua.net/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/e9199_26-Custom1.jpg" alt="26 (Custom)" width="420" height="329" /></a></strong></p>
<p><h3>Mac OS X</h3>
<p><strong><a href="http://www.tutorialman.com/mac_os_x_leopard_logo_tutorial.html"><img src="http://seo.portua.net/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/bd21b_27-Custom1.jpg" alt="27 (Custom)" width="420" height="261" /></a></strong></p>
<p><h3>Black and White Logo</h3>
<p><strong><a href="http://www.computerarts.co.uk/tutorials/2d__and__photoshop/create_a_black_and_white_logo"><img src="../wp-content/uploads/2009/08/28-Custom1.jpg" alt="28 (Custom)" width="420" height="290" /></a></strong></p>
<p><h3>3D Encide Logo</h3>
<p><strong><a href="http://www.axertion.com/tutorials/2008/12/3d-encide-logo-tutorial/"><img src="http://seo.portua.net/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/604cb_29-Custom.jpg" alt="29 (Custom)" width="420" height="166" /></a></strong></p>
<p><h3>3d Glossy Box</h3>
<p><strong><a href="http://www.tutorial9.net/photoshop/create-a-3d-glossy-box-logo/"><img src="http://seo.portua.net/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/63d49_30-Custom.jpg" alt="30 (Custom)" width="420" height="151" /></a></strong></p>
<p><h3>3d Glowing</h3>
<p><strong><a href="http://www.marcofolio.net/photoshop/glowing_and_sparkling_intense_light_3d_logo.html"><img src="http://seo.portua.net/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/6ef51_31-Custom.jpg" alt="31 (Custom)" width="420" height="369" /></a></strong></p>
<p>Have you patterned some tutorials above that strength support inform you something new? Or do you hit added artefact of sharpening your skills?</p>
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		<title>STYLING DIFFERENT POSTS IN DIFFERENT WAYS WITH POST_CLASS</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 12:05:17 +0000</pubDate>
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With WordPress 2.7 came the post_class function. This gives a ordered of CSS classes to a post, depending on what&#8217;s in the place (e.g. supported on what collection it is in).
The cipher that you ingest in your model to ingest this is exclusive aforementioned this:




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&#60;divcolor: #000000; font-weight: bold;" &#62;&#60;?php the_ID&#40;&#41;; ?&#62;&#34; &#60;?php post_class&#40;&#41;; ?&#62;&#62;




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<p>With WordPress 2.7 came the <a href="http://codex.wordpress.org/Migrating_Plugins_and_Themes_to_2.7#Post_Classes">post_class</a> function. This gives a ordered of CSS classes to a post, depending on what&#8217;s in the place (e.g. supported on what collection it is in).</p>
<p>The cipher that you ingest in your model to ingest this is exclusive aforementioned this:</p>
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<pre>&lt;divcolor: #000000; font-weight: bold;" &gt;&lt;?php</span> the_ID<span>&#40;</span><span>&#41;</span><span>;</span> <span>?&gt;</span>&quot; <span>&lt;?php</span> post_class<span>&#40;</span><span>&#41;</span><span>;</span> <span>?&gt;</span>&gt;</pre>
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<p>While this is a strange duty for dynamical a post&#8217;s display, the classes that it outputs are actually quite limited. Luckily, we crapper add our own, and we crapper also add our possess impulsive classes.</p>
<p>Basically what I stingy by this is that by using whatever player lines of PHP, we crapper add our possess classes into the <code>post_class</code> duty depending on whatever added place information.</p>
<p>The choice classes that are production are:</p>
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<li>post-<em>id</em>, where <em>id</em> is the post&#8217;s id</li>
<li>post type, which by choice are <em>post</em>, <em>page</em> and <em>attachment</em></li>
<li>sticky, for posts scarred as sticky on the place indite panel</li>
<li>hentry, for <a href="http://microformats.org/wiki/hatom">hAtom</a> compliance</li>
<li>category-<em>category-name</em>, so if your collection was wordpress, it would be category-wordpress</li>
<li>tag-<em>tag-name</em>, so if your attach was php, it would be tag-php</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>NB. This place uses whatever functions exclusive introduced in WordPress 2.8.</strong></p>
<h3>Author Styling</h3>
<p>A aggregation of blogs call their authors&#8217; comments differently to visitors&#8217; comments, so ground not call digit author&#8217;s posts differently to another&#8217;s?</p>
<p>First of all, to intend the communicator of the post, add this distinction before the move of your <a href="http://codex.wordpress.org/The_Loop">loop</a>.</p>
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<pre><span>&lt;?php</span> <span>$author</span> <span>=</span> get_the_author_meta<span>&#40;</span><span>'display_name'</span><span>&#41;</span><span>;</span> <span>?&gt;</span></pre>
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<li>This creates a newborn uncertain titled $author&#8230;</li>
<li>And assigns the continuance of get_the_author_meta to it, specifically the author&#8217;s pass name.</li>
</ol>
<p>If you poverty to ingest added aspects of the author&#8217;s meta, verify a countenance at the <a href="http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get_the_author_meta">get_the_author_meta</a> entry in the codex.</p>
<p>And then to add that as a collection to post_class, add this line:</p>
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<pre><span>&lt;?php</span> post_class<span>&#40;</span><span>'box '</span> <span>.</span> <span>$author</span><span>&#41;</span><span>;</span> <span>?&gt;</span></pre>
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<li>As an warning of a noise collection in union with this impulsive class, I&#8217;ve additional the capricious &#8216;box&#8217; class.</li>
<li>Note the expanse before the approaching apostrophe; this ensures that there is a expanse between it and our impulsive class.</li>
<li>We <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concatenation">concatenate</a> our communicator uncertain to production the study of our communicator as a class.</li>
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<p>We crapper today call apiece place depending on the author. Just as an example, we&#8217;ll modify the abut colour.</p>
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<pre><span>.Alex</span> <span>&#123;</span>
<span>border</span><span>:</span> <span>1px</span> <span>solid</span> <span>#0066CC</span><span>;</span>
<span>&#125;</span>
<span>.Martin</span> <span>&#123;</span>
<span>border</span><span>:</span> <span>1px</span> <span>dashed</span> <span>#CC0000</span><span>;</span>
<span>&#125;</span></pre>
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<p><img src="http://seo.portua.net/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/9fd7a_author-post-class.jpg" alt="Author Post Class" width="560" height="375" /></p>
<h3>Show Post Popularity with CSS</h3>
<p>This is a lowercase more complicated, but ultimately, we&#8217;re feat to ingest the invoke of comments on a place to pass a assorted collection accordingly.</p>
<p>You haw desire to modify these drawing to meet the cipher sort of comments you intend on a place to watch what is more popular, but the construct relic the same.</p>
<p>To intend the invoke of comments we requirement to add the mass code, this instance exclusive the loop.</p>
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	<span>$postid</span> <span>=</span> get_the_ID<span>&#40;</span><span>&#41;</span><span>;</span>
	<span>$total_comment_count</span> <span>=</span> wp_count_comments<span>&#40;</span><span>$postid</span><span>&#41;</span><span>;</span>
		<span>$my_comment_count</span> <span>=</span> <span>$total_comment_count</span><span>-&gt;</span><span>approved</span><span>;</span>
	<span>if</span> <span>&#40;</span><span>$my_comment_count</span> <span>&lt;</span><span>10</span><span>&#41;</span> <span>&#123;</span>
		<span>$my_comment_count</span> <span>=</span> <span>'new'</span><span>;</span>
	<span>&#125;</span> <span>elseif</span> <span>&#40;</span><span>$my_comment_count</span> <span>&gt;=</span> <span>10</span> <span>&amp;&amp;</span> <span>$my_comment_count</span> <span>&lt;</span><span>20</span><span>&#41;</span> <span>&#123;</span>
		<span>$my_comment_count</span> <span>=</span> <span>'ermerging'</span><span>;</span>
	<span>&#125;</span> <span>elseif</span> <span>&#40;</span><span>$my_comment_count</span> <span>&gt;=</span> <span>20</span><span>&#41;</span> <span>&#123;</span>
		<span>$my_comment_count</span> <span>=</span> <span>'popular'</span><span>;</span>
	<span>&#125;</span>
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<li>We create our prototypal uncertain and ordered the post&#8217;s ID as its value.</li>
<li>Using that uncertain we crapper admittance the interpret calculate for that place using <a href="http://adambrown.info/p/wp_hooks/hook/wp_count_comments?version=2.8&amp;file=wp-includes/comment.php">wp_count_comments</a>, distribution that to added variable.</li>
<li>That duty gets every comments, whether spam, awaiting level or approved, but luckily we crapper feature to exclusive intend the authorised calculate using <code>-&gt;approved</code>.</li>
<li>Now we crapper effort the continuance of the <code>$my_comment_count</code> uncertain using <a href="http://www.w3schools.com/PHP/php_operators.asp">php operators</a>.</li>
</ol>
<p>Now for apiece collection we hit created, we add a CSS rule. Because the saucer of this is to exhibit an article&#8217;s popularity visually, it makes significance to ingest whatever category of spectrum, I&#8217;m using chromatic to red.</p>
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<pre><span>.new</span> <span>&#123;</span>
<span>border</span><span>:</span> <span>1px</span> <span>solid</span> <span>#FFFF00</span><span>;</span>
<span>&#125;</span>
<span>.emerging</span> <span>&#123;</span>
<span>border</span><span>:</span> <span>1px</span> <span>dashed</span> <span>#FF9933</span><span>;</span>
<span>&#125;</span>
<span>.popular</span> <span>&#123;</span>
<span>border</span><span>:</span> <span>1px</span> <span>dashed</span> <span>#CC0000</span><span>;</span>
<span>&#125;</span></pre>
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<p><img src="http://seo.portua.net/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/c4207_popularity-post-class.jpg" alt="Popularity Post Class" width="560" height="568" /></p>
<h3>Custom Fields</h3>
<p>To intend the eventual curb over a post&#8217;s pass we crapper invoke to <a href="http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Custom_Fields">custom fields</a>.</p>
<p>First of every we add a bespoken earth continuance and key unify to our post:</p>
<p><img src="http://seo.portua.net/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/c3a42_custom-field-post-class.jpg" alt="Custom Field Post Class" width="560" height="161" /></p>
<p>So in this case, we add digit classes, pass my feeling when I wrote the post, and what the defy was doing. Just to exhibit how that crapper be used, we crapper add whatever CSS to exhibit a scenery for the weather.</p>
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<pre><span>.raining</span> <span>&#123;</span>
<span>background</span><span>:</span> <span>transparent</span> <span>url</span><span>&#40;</span><span>'images/raining.jpg'</span><span>&#41;</span> <span>no-repeat</span> <span>right</span> <span>bottom</span><span>;</span>
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<p>We crapper ingest the mass cipher to intend our bespoken field:</p>
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<pre><span>&lt;?php</span> <span>$custom_values</span> <span>=</span> get_post_meta<span>&#40;</span><span>$post</span><span>-&gt;</span><span>ID</span><span>,</span> <span>'post-class'</span><span>&#41;</span><span>;</span> <span>?&gt;</span></pre>
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<p>Remembering to add the $custom_values uncertain to our post_class function.</p>
<p><img src="http://seo.portua.net/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/f899d_custom-field-output-post-class.jpg" alt="Custom Field Output Post Class" width="560" height="188" /></p>
<h3>Taking the intent further</h3>
<p>Some added structure you crapper ingest post_class dynamically are with <a href="http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/the_time">the_time</a>, checking for differences in the_time and <a href="http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/the_modified_time">the_modified_time</a> or modify with <a href="http://www.wprecipes.com/wordpress-function-to-display-your-posts-words-count">word count</a>. See what engrossing structure you crapper become up with to modify a post&#8217;s pass depending on whatever of its impulsive aspects.</p>
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		<title>30 BEAUTIFUL AND CLEAN BLOG DESIGNS</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 12:04:34 +0000</pubDate>
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When employed on a newborn journal thought most designers same to countenance around at examples of well-designed blogs for rousing that crapper be utilised in their possess work. Sometimes the most awesome and exalting designs are those that control to attain a enthusiastic countenance with naivety kinda than unrestrained organisation elements.
In this place we module [...]]]></description>
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<p>When employed on a newborn journal thought most designers same to countenance around at examples of well-designed blogs for rousing that crapper be utilised in their possess work. Sometimes the most awesome and exalting designs are those that control to attain a enthusiastic countenance with naivety kinda than unrestrained organisation elements.</p>
<p>In this place we module background 30 journal designs that hit an effective, captivating organisation with a decent style. In some cases this call lends itself to comely inflection on the noesis and superior readability.</p>
<p><a href="http://informationarchitects.jp/"><strong>Information Architects</strong></a></p>
<p><a href="http://informationarchitects.jp/"><img src="http://seo.portua.net/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/bb5e9_ia.jpg" alt="Information Architects" width="500" height="286" /></a></p>
<p><a href="http://developmentseed.org/blog/"><strong>Development Seed Blog</strong></a></p>
<p><a href="http://developmentseed.org/blog/"><img src="http://seo.portua.net/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/1c93a_devseed.jpg" alt="Development Seed Blog" width="500" height="315" /></a></p>
<p><a href="http://matthewbuchanan.name/"><strong>Matthew Buchanan</strong></a></p>
<p><a href="http://matthewbuchanan.name/"><img src="http://seo.portua.net/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/b4484_matt1.jpg" alt="Matthew Buchanan" width="500" height="310" /></a></p>
<p><a href="http://one.org/blog/"><strong>One</strong></a></p>
<p><a href="http://one.org/blog/"><img src="http://seo.portua.net/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/8fef6_one.jpg" alt="One" width="500" height="296" /></a></p>
<p><a href="http://thedesigned.com/"><strong>The Designed</strong></a></p>
<p><a href="http://thedesigned.com/"><img src="http://seo.portua.net/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/1c46c_thedesigned.jpg" alt="The Designed" width="500" height="277" /></a></p>
<p><a href="http://heliumworkx.com/"><strong>Helium Workx</strong></a></p>
<p><a href="http://heliumworkx.com/"><img src="http://seo.portua.net/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/b8729_helium.jpg" alt="Helium Workx" width="500" height="290" /></a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.thecreativedistrict.ie/blog/"><strong>The Creative District</strong></a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.thecreativedistrict.ie/blog/"><img src="http://seo.portua.net/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/f4658_district.jpg" alt="The Creative District" width="500" height="314" /></a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.kineda.com/"><strong>Kineda</strong></a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.kineda.com/"><img src="http://seo.portua.net/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/654a1_kineda.jpg" alt="Kineda" width="500" height="289" /></a></p>
<p><a href="http://neusblog.com/"><strong>Neusblog</strong></a></p>
<p><a href="http://neusblog.com/"><img src="http://seo.portua.net/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/ce2ea_neus.jpg" alt="Neusblog" width="500" height="294" /></a></p>
<p><a href="http://lauramarchbanks.com/blog/"><strong>Laura Marchbanks</strong></a></p>
<p><a href="http://lauramarchbanks.com/blog/"><img src="http://seo.portua.net/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/4aa49_marchbanks.jpg" alt="Laura Marchbanks" width="500" height="300" /></a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.dirtymouse.co.uk/"><strong>Dirty Mouse</strong></a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.dirtymouse.co.uk/"><img src="http://seo.portua.net/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/35e68_dirty.jpg" alt="Dirty Mouse" width="500" height="292" /></a></p>
<p><a href="http://dfckr.com/"><strong>Design Fckr</strong></a></p>
<p><a href="http://dfckr.com/"><img src="http://seo.portua.net/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/d5248_fckr.jpg" alt="Design Fckr" width="500" height="280" /></a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.hossli.com/"><strong>Hossli.com</strong></a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.hossli.com/"><img src="http://seo.portua.net/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/02814_hos.jpg" alt="Hossli.com" width="500" height="300" /></a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.creativetourist.com/"><strong>CreativeTourist.com</strong></a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.creativetourist.com/"><img src="http://seo.portua.net/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/ba746_creative.jpg" alt="CreativeTourist.com" width="500" height="276" /></a></p>
<p><a href="http://blog.squarespace.com/"><strong>Squarespace Blog</strong></a></p>
<p><a href="http://blog.squarespace.com/"><img src="http://seo.portua.net/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/12c58_square.jpg" alt="Squarespace Blog" width="500" height="291" /></a></p>
<p><a href="http://danielhowells.net/"><strong>Daniel Howells</strong></a></p>
<p><a href="http://danielhowells.net/"><img src="http://seo.portua.net/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/c5458_howells.jpg" alt="Daniel Howells" width="500" height="292" /></a></p>
<p><a href="http://daringfireball.net/"><strong>Daring Fireball</strong></a></p>
<p><a href="http://daringfireball.net/"><img src="http://seo.portua.net/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/386cd_fireball.jpg" alt="Daring Fireball" width="500" height="316" /></a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.heartworker.com/"><strong>Heartworker</strong></a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.heartworker.com/"><img src="http://seo.portua.net/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/b2ff4_heart.jpg" alt="Heartworker" width="500" height="305" /></a></p>
<p><a href="http://blog.btpdesign.com/"><strong>Beyond the Pixels</strong></a></p>
<p><a href="http://blog.btpdesign.com/"><img src="http://seo.portua.net/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/4c405_beyond.jpg" alt="Beyond the Pixels" width="500" height="310" /></a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.strangebeautiful.net/"><strong>strange|beautiful</strong></a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.strangebeautiful.net/"><img src="http://seo.portua.net/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/9369e_strange.jpg" alt="strange|beautiful" width="500" height="284" /></a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.welcometohr.com/"><strong>Human Resources</strong></a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.welcometohr.com/"><img src="http://seo.portua.net/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/2f123_human.jpg" alt="Human Resources" width="500" height="311" /></a></p>
<p><a href="http://surfstation.com/"><strong>Surfstation</strong></a></p>
<p><a href="http://surfstation.com/"><img src="http://seo.portua.net/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/360b8_surf.jpg" alt="Surfstation" width="500" height="298" /></a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.mstrpln.com/forsnowboarding/"><strong>forsnowboarding</strong></a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.mstrpln.com/forsnowboarding/"><img src="http://seo.portua.net/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/da034_for.jpg" alt="forsnowboarding" width="500" height="284" /></a></p>
<p><a href="http://blog.alonsocreative.com/"><strong>WEBLOG</strong></a></p>
<p><a href="http://blog.alonsocreative.com/"><img src="http://seo.portua.net/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/aa222_weblog.jpg" alt="weblog" width="500" height="309" /></a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.idsgn.org/"><strong>idsgn</strong></a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.idsgn.org/"><img src="http://seo.portua.net/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/9abe1_idsgn.jpg" alt="idsgn" width="500" height="279" /></a></p>
<p><a href="http://secondandpark.com/blog/"><strong>Second &amp; Park</strong></a></p>
<p><a href="http://secondandpark.com/blog/"><img src="http://seo.portua.net/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/7f0c6_second.jpg" alt="Second &amp; Park" width="500" height="290" /></a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.objectifiedfilm.com/"><strong>Objectified</strong></a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.objectifiedfilm.com/"><img src="http://seo.portua.net/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/2a97c_objectified.jpg" alt="Objectified" width="500" height="307" /></a></p>
<p><a href="http://simplebits.com/"><strong>SimpleBits</strong></a></p>
<p><a href="http://simplebits.com/"><img src="http://seo.portua.net/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/d2732_simple.jpg" alt="SimpleBits" width="500" height="299" /></a></p>
<p><a href="http://stylespion.de/"><strong>StyleSpion</strong></a></p>
<p><a href="http://stylespion.de/"><img src="http://seo.portua.net/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/7c2a3_style.jpg" alt="StyleSpion" width="500" height="297" /></a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.thisisnotashop.com/index.php/blog/"><strong>thisisnotashop</strong></a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.thisisnotashop.com/index.php/blog/"><img src="http://seo.portua.net/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/25373_notashop.jpg" alt="notashop" width="500" height="312" /></a></p>
<p>Which is your favorite? Or would you favour a &#8220;designed&#8221; journal to a concise and country one?</p>
<p><img src="http://seo.portua.net/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/97e96_amKPCbBmm4I" height="1"></p>
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		<title>10 WAYS TO CUSTOMIZE AND PERSONALIZE YOUR WORDPRESS BLOG</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 11:59:19 +0000</pubDate>
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Having a unequalled thought and adding individualized touches to your journal is by no effectuation a necessity, but it crapper rattling compound and enable your locate to defence conceive more among the blogosphere&#8217;s branded adornment of bloggers. Just same with whatever characteristic of your brand, you poverty grouping to directly attain that connexion with you [...]]]></description>
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<p>Having a unequalled thought and adding individualized touches to your journal is by no effectuation a necessity, but it crapper rattling compound and enable your locate to defence conceive more among the blogosphere&#8217;s branded adornment of bloggers. Just same with whatever characteristic of your brand, you poverty grouping to directly attain that connexion with you and your blog. This crapper easily be finished with a bespoken organisation and the impalpable injections of the mortal or persons that are behindhand the blog. If you are not in a function where you crapper create your possess bespoken theme, do not fret, customizing a liberated or payment thought crapper impact for your journal as well.</p>
<p>These attentions to discourse run to draw readers more than the nonsubjective see that crapper be imparted by using a accepted thought that lacks the personality and savor of a bespoken one. So in this post, I hit collective 10 structure that you crapper easily change and draw these noesis to wage your locate that characteristic bounds that module support institute your blog&#8217;s presence. Start making your evaluation today to effectively alter your blog&#8217;s prominence, by employed finished the steps below. </p>
<h4>Tutorials, Tools &amp; Resources</h4>
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<li><a href="http://vandelaydesign.com/blog/blogging/customize-your-own-wordpress-theme/">Customize Your Own WordPress Theme</a></li>
<li><a href="http://net.tutsplus.com/site-builds/how-to-create-a-wordpress-theme-from-scratch/">How to Create a Wordpress Theme from Scratch</a></li>
<li><a href="http://themeshaper.com/thematic/">Thematic</a> &#8211; A free, open-source, highly extensible, search-engine optimized WordPress Theme Framework featuring 13 widget-ready areas, grid-based layout samples, styling for favourite plugins, and a full accord behindhand it.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.plaintxt.org/themes/sandbox/">Sandbox</a> &#8211; A coercive agency acquirable for WordPress thought designers and developers. The Sandbox crapper be easily fashioned meet with CSS, so beginners module see cushy not bothering with PHP.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Examples</h4>
<p><a href="http://ma.tt">Matt</a><a href="http://ma.tt"><img src="http://seo.portua.net/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/395c7_matt.jpg"  alt="matt"  title="matt"  width="560"  height="321"  /></a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.jayhafling.com">Jay Hafling</a><a href="http://www.jayhafling.com"><img src="http://seo.portua.net/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/2efc6_jayhafling.jpg"  alt="jayhafling"  title="jayhafling"  width="560"  height="286"  /></a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.kulturbanause.de">Kulturbanause</a><br/><br />
<a href="http://www.kulturbanause.de"><img src="http://seo.portua.net/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/abc40_kulturbanause.jpg"  alt="kulturbanause"  title="kulturbanause"  width="560"  height="273"  /></a></p>
<h3>1. Have a Custom Default Gravatar</h3>
<p>The prototypal component up for discussion, is the ingest of a bespoken <a href="http://en.gravatar.com/">gravatar</a> instead of the choice wordpress perplexity man. Not that there is anything criminal with remaining a lowercase mysterious, by every means, be uncomprehensible if you want. However, by using a bespoken gravatar, you are serving to boost institute and solidify your branding. Once you hit this gravatar in place, the more anonymous interactions that verify locate throughout your blog, the more it module physique sort property for your site. Not to mention, there are those among the online conference who module verify you and your locate a taste more earnestly if you hit this gravatar reflecting your sort instead of its flavorless predecessor. </p>
<h4>Tutorials, Tools &amp; Resources</h4>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Gravatars">Wordpress Codex &#8211; Using Gravatars</a></li>
<li><a href="http://en.gravatar.com/site/signup">Sign up for a Gravatar of your own.</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.problogdesign.com/general-tips/how-to-make-your-own-default-avatar-in-5-minutes/">How To Make Your Own Default Avatar in 5 Minutes</a></li>
<li><a href="http://buildinternet.com/2009/02/how-to-change-the-default-gravatar-in-wordpress/">How to Change the Default Gravatar in Wordpress</a></li>
</ul>
<h4>Examples</h4>
<p><a href="http://www.myinkblog.com">My Ink Blog</a><a href="http://www.myinkblog.com"><img src="http://seo.portua.net/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/3ae51_myinkblog.jpg"  alt="myinkblog"  title="myinkblog"  width="560"  height="282"  /></a></p>
<p><a href="http://buildinternet.com">Build Internet</a><a href="http://buildinternet.com"><img src="http://seo.portua.net/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/7b0a3_buildinternet.jpg"  alt="buildinternet"  title="buildinternet"  width="560"  height="246"  /></a></p>
<p><a href="http://10steps.sg">10 Steps</a><a href="http://10steps.sg"><img src="http://seo.portua.net/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/35122_10steps.jpg"  alt="10steps"  title="10steps"  width="560"  height="230"  /></a></p>
<h3>2. Style Author Comments</h3>
<p>Styling author&#8217;s comments differently than the rest of them mitt by your readers, crapper rattling support the author&#146s replies defence conceive to those who are specifically hunting for more signaling from them. Even with threaded comments &#40;now that WP is substance this style&#41;, you crapper ease intend forfeited hunting for the author&#146s digit cents more if the journal gets a aggregation of commenters replying backwards and forth. Setting these specifically unconnected from the rest module also exhibit that you poverty your authors to defence conceive and be heard, so it crapper also be understood as a alikeness on the attitude you hit for the grouping who indite for your site.</p>
<h4>Tutorials, Tools &amp; Resources</h4>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://rmarsh.com/plugins/highlight-comments/">Highlight Author Comments Plugin</a> automatically displays comments prefabricated by a post’s communicator in a characteristic call with no requirement to modify your model files, etc. All you do is wage a piece of CSS styling to be practical to communicator posts.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.wprecipes.com/how-to-style-author-comments-in-wordpress-27">How to Style Author Comments in Wordpress</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.problogdesign.com/how-to/style-author-comments-differently/">How to Style Author Comments Differnetly</a></li>
</ul>
<h4>Examples</h4>
<p><a href="http://www.brianyerkes.com">Brian Yerkes</a><a href="http://www.brianyerkes.com"><img src="http://seo.portua.net/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/f1a02_brianyerks.jpg"  alt="brianyerks"  title="brianyerks"  width="560"  height="284"  /></a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.noupe.com">Noupe</a><a href="http://www.noupe.com"><img src="http://seo.portua.net/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/c18cc_noupe.jpg"  alt="noupe"  title="noupe"  width="560"  height="241"  /></a></p>
<p><a href="http://thinkdesignblog.com">Think Design</a><a href="http://thinkdesignblog.com"><img src="http://seo.portua.net/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/4e58c_thinkdesign.jpg"  alt="thinkdesign"  title="thinkdesign"  width="560"  height="249"  /></a></p>
<h3>3. Put Extra Time Into Your About Page</h3>
<p>Since readers run to move to the personalization aspects of a design, that is mood of their poverty to enter on a more individualized verify with whomever runs the site. Give them a super handicap up in this see for more most you with an awesome, careful About Page. Most sites hit this taste of brainwave offered anyway, so ground not travel up to the bag and rattling wage the grouping an conceive of the tract noble slam. Let your readers undergo more most you, your travelling to this place, your background, etc&#8230;the key is, don&#8217; be shy. And if you see so inclined, the body of a represent on the About Page, does a aggregation for making that individualized unification a lowercase more solid. Let your readers undergo who you are, and it module clear soured for your blog, because, also, grouping run to poverty to undergo who they are perception to.</p>
<h4>Tutorials, Tools &amp; Resources</h4>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.problogger.net/archives/2005/03/23/random-blog-tip-include-an-about-page/">Add an ‘About’ Page to Your Blog</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/07/01/best-practices-for-effective-design-of-about-us-pages/">Best Practices For Effective Design Of “About me” Pages</a></li>
<li><a href="http://writetodone.com/2009/05/18/five-tips-and-a-bonus-on-how-to-write-a-fantastic-about-page/">Five Tips (and a Bonus!) on How to Write a Fantastic About Page</a></li>
</ul>
<h4>Examples</h4>
<p><a href="http://www.fudgegraphics.com/about/">Fudge Graphics</a><a href="http://www.fudgegraphics.com/about/"><img src="http://seo.portua.net/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/5eac5_fudgegraphics.jpg"  alt="fudgegraphics"  title="fudgegraphics"  width="560"  height="280"  /></a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.intuitivedesigns.net">Intuitive Designs</a><a href="http://www.intuitivedesigns.net"><img src="http://seo.portua.net/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/a733a_intuitivedesigns.jpg"  alt="intuitivedesigns"  title="intuitivedesigns"  width="560"  height="291"  /></a></p>
<p><a href="http://mattbrett.com/about/">Matt Brett</a><a href="http://mattbrett.com/about/"><img src="http://seo.portua.net/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/f836b_mattbrett.jpg"  alt="mattbrett"  title="mattbrett"  width="560"  height="250"  /></a></p>
<h3>4. Use your Footer Space Effectively</h3>
<p>There are a sort blogs that hit a dull notation which is not at every interactive. It exclusive rests there at the lowermost of the tender as a plain agent for papers noesis and announcements most which CMS powers the site. But this expanse crapper be utilised so such more effectively to boost vow the readers by containing elements such as a Flickr showcase, or a particular of favourite posts from your archives, and so on. Bottom line, the lowermost of your locate needs as such of a individualized contact and tending as the rest of the site. A lawful notation module meet behave as a beam soured from your site. But draw the notation and attain it more engaging, and your notation module exclusive beam them deeper into your blog!</p>
<h4>Tutorials, Tools &amp; Resources</h4>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.reencoded.com/2009/07/07/20-great-wordpress-footer-designs-for-inspiration/">20 Great Wordpress Footer Designs for Inspiration</a></li>
<li><a href="http://net.tutsplus.com/tutorials/wordpress/dont-ignore-your-wordpress-footer/">Don&#8217;t Ignore Your Wordpress Footer</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.sueblimely.com/add-widget-ready-sidebars-to-wordpress-footers/">Add Widget Ready Sidebars to Wordpress Footers</a></li>
<li><a href="http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2007/09/30/customizing-your-wordpress-theme-footer/">Customizing Your Wordpress Theme Footer</a></li>
</ul>
<h4>Examples</h4>
<p><a href="http://www.bcandullo.com/">bcandullo</a><a href="http://www.bcandullo.com/"><img src="http://seo.portua.net/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/f5490_bcandullo.jpg"  alt="bcandullo"  title="bcandullo"  width="560"  height="166"  /></a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.blog.spoongraphics.co.uk/">Blog Spoon Graphics</a><a href="http://www.blog.spoongraphics.co.uk/"><img src="http://seo.portua.net/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/e62f7_spoon.jpg"  alt="spoon"  title="spoon"  width="560"  height="177"  /></a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.assaultblog.com/">Assault Blog</a><a href="http://www.assaultblog.com/"><img src="http://seo.portua.net/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/86a71_assaultblog.jpg"  alt="assaultblog"  title="assaultblog"  width="560"  height="175"  /></a></p>
<h3>5. Have a Unique &#038; Useful 404 Page</h3>
<p>There are nowadays when grouping conceive your journal for the prototypal instance via a busted link, and you poverty this broken launching to advance to them a beatific significance of what category of journal you hit and what they crapper wait from your site. After all, their prototypal notion haw already be a taste blemished by the unification they were hunting for not existence there when they arrive, so you poverty to bushel this severance with whatever knightly assistance. Provide them with course to newborn or favourite posts, a locate map, and more. This way, patch they haw not hit institute the unification they were hunting for, they haw ease verify the instance to countenance around your site, and not meet frustratedly scarper forgetting most your locate as it has frustrated them and broken the line of their surf. Use this quantity to re-route this prototypal notion into a more constructive and memorable one.</p>
<h4>Tutorials, Tools &amp; Resources</h4>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.smashingmagazine.com/404">Smashing Magazine&#8217;s 404 page</a> is actually an unpaid locate with heaps of 404 tender resources and tips.</li>
<li><a href="http://themeplayground.com/2007/tutorials/for-wordpress-users/customize-your-404-page/">Advice for Your Wordpress Blog: Customize Your 404 Page</a></li>
<li><a href="http://wphacks.com/wordpress-tip-customizing-404-page/">WordPress Tip: Customizing Your 404 Page</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.alistapart.com/articles/perfect404/">A List Apart&#8217;s Perfect 404</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/build-a-great-website-404-page-20-examples/">How To Make a Great 404 Error Page &#038; 10 Examples</a></li>
</ul>
<h4>Examples</h4>
<p><a href="http://www.inspirationbit.com/404">Inspiration Bit</a><a href="http://www.inspirationbit.com/404"><img src="http://seo.portua.net/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/0b646_inspirationbit.jpg"  alt="inspirationbit"  title="inspirationbit"  width="560"  height="229"  /></a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.problogger.net/404/">Problogger</a><a href="http://www.problogger.net/404/"><img src="http://seo.portua.net/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/0f48b_problogger.jpg"  alt="problogger"  title="problogger"  width="560"  height="461"  /></a></p>
<p><a href="http://veerle.duoh.com/404">Veerle&#8217;s Blog</a><a href="http://veerle.duoh.com/404"><img src="http://seo.portua.net/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/b5e94_veerle.jpg"  alt="veerle"  title="veerle"  width="560"  height="409"  /></a></p>
<h3>6. Incorporate Social Media</h3>
<p>Social media is a field maker for achievement conceive to your online conference and boost conjunctive with them. By incorporating your ethnic media activities and accounts into your blog, you are inaugural up more avenues for that brainwave and interactiveness with your readers. Lifestreaming is a favourite artefact of making these media activity inclusions, but you crapper modify attain this in a more ultimate behavior as well. Using ethnic media icons to unification to your accounts, or for that concern meet having course module impact too. As daylong as you are pass your readers that you are unstoppered to attractive them further, then your locate module be seen as more individualized and accessible.</p>
<h4>Tutorials, Tools &amp; Resources</h4>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://eightface.com/wordpress/flickrrss/">Flickr RSS Plugin</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.ericlightbody.com/2009/07/19/tweetiepie-for-wordpress/">TweetiePie Plugin</a></li>
<li><a href="http://wordpress.tv/2009/07/24/twitter-selfhosted/">How to Add Twitter Updates to Your Sidebar</a></li>
<li><a href="http://mcbuzz.wordpress.com/2008/07/08/wordpress-tutorial-how-to-add-flickr-photo-widget-sidebar/">How to Add Flickr Photo Widget to WordPress Theme Sidebar</a></li>
</ul>
<h4>Examples</h4>
<p><a href="http://kailoon.com/">Loon Design</a><a href="http://kailoon.com/"><img src="http://seo.portua.net/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/14792_loon.jpg"  alt="loon"  title="loon"  width="560"  height="295"  /></a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.leemunroe.com/">Lee Munroe</a><a href="http://www.leemunroe.com/"><img src="http://seo.portua.net/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/95312_leemunroe.jpg"  alt="leemunroe"  title="leemunroe"  width="560"  height="224"  /></a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.ilovecolors.com.ar/">I fuck Colors</a><a href="http://www.ilovecolors.com.ar/"><img src="http://seo.portua.net/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/be2b5_ilovecolor.jpg"  alt="ilovecolor"  title="ilovecolor"  width="560"  height="150"  /></a></p>
<h3>7. Highlight Your Authors Well</h3>
<p>Just same having a enthusiastic most tender which highlights you, if you hit temporary authors who regularly advance to your site, you poverty to wage your readers a beatific intent of who they are as well. This gives you added enthusiastic possibleness to shew your approval to every of those grouping who impact hornlike to attain your locate every that it is. Not exclusive module this ready pass those grouping whom you hit embellish to rely on for calibre noesis how such you continuance them, but it module stimulate others to advance as well. For you hit shown that their impact and persona module ever be reputable and recognized. </p>
<h4>Tutorials, Tools &amp; Resources</h4>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.dagondesign.com/articles/posts-by-author-plugin-for-wordpress/">Posts by Author Plugin</a></li>
<li><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/multiple-authors/">Multiple Authors Plugin</a></li>
<li><a href="http://gabediaz.com/blog/displaying-author-pic-and-bio-in-your-wordpress-post/">Displaying Author Pic and Bio in Your Wordpress Post the Non-Gravatar Way</a></li>
<li><a href="http://themeshaper.com/how-to-add-gravatars-for-the-post-author-in-wordpress/">How to Add Gravatars for the Post Author in Wordpress</a></li>
</ul>
<h4>Examples</h4>
<p><a href="http://www.tutorial9.net/">Tutorial 9</a><a href="http://www.tutorial9.net/"><img src="http://seo.portua.net/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/0ab41_tutorial9.jpg"  alt="tutorial9"  title="tutorial9"  width="560"  height="226"  /></a></p>
<p><a href="http://fuelyourcoding.com">Fuel Your Coding</a><a href="http://fuelyourcoding.com"><img src="http://seo.portua.net/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/9a0e3_fycoding.jpg"  alt="fycoding"  title="fycoding"  width="560"  height="239"  /></a></p>
<p><a href="http://line25.com">Line 25</a><a href="http://line25.com"><img src="http://seo.portua.net/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/3fee1_line25.jpg"  alt="line25"  title="line25"  width="560"  height="239"  /></a></p>
<h3>8. Engage Your Readers</h3>
<p>I hit mentioned doing this at assorted times, but it is such a priceless artefact of personalizing your locate that it had to hit its possess locate in the itemize as well. People poverty to see same they crapper deal and handle in the topics you hit upraised and the sites that vow them effectively, are the ones they module convey to. Engaging your readers shows that you are astir and perception to them, and it lets them undergo that you continuance their signaling as such as they continuance yours. This is cushy to attain beyond the structure I hit already mentioned. Have a deal country at the lowermost of apiece locate so they crapper deal it easily with their another online friends. End apiece locate with questions to your readers to stimulate them to comment, and attain trusty you meet on crowning of replying to comments so readers do not see ignored.</p>
<h4>Tutorials, Tools &amp; Resources</h4>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://sexybookmarks.net/">SexyBookmarks Plugin</a></li>
<li><a href="http://push.cx/sociable">Sociable Plugin</a></li>
<li><a href="http://anidandesign.com/wordpress/social-media-and-wordpress/">Social Media and Wordpress</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.johntp.com/2006/05/25/10-ways-to-engage-readers-on-your-blog/">10 Ways to vow Readers on Your Blog</a></li>
</ul>
<h4>Examples</h4>
<p><a href="http://wellmedicated.com">Well Medicated</a><a href="http://wellmedicated.com"><img src="http://seo.portua.net/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/e034a_wellmedicated.jpg"  alt="wellmedicated"  title="wellmedicated"  width="560"  height="182"  /></a></p>
<p><a href="http://colorburned.com">Colorburned</a><a href="http://colorburned.com"><img src="http://seo.portua.net/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/31874_colorburned.jpg"  alt="colorburned"  title="colorburned"  width="560"  height="179"  /></a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.nikibrown.com/designoblog">The Design O&#8217;blog</a><a href="http://www.nikibrown.com/designoblog"><img src="http://seo.portua.net/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/4ec4c_designoblog.jpg"  alt="designoblog"  title="designoblog"  width="560"  height="193"  /></a></p>
<h3>9. Have Useful &amp; Comprehensive Archives</h3>
<p>You hit heard it before and you module definitely center it again, noesis is king. So lightness the noesis on your journal is digit of the most essential things you crapper do to support your readers enter to it. And by displaying it pronto and so comprehensively, it boost reflects a feel that you hit for the impact that has been place into your blog. Why go finished every the impact and toil to embellish up with the noesis for your site, if you are exclusive feat to permit it embellish belowground as instance passes. Make trusty that your readers hit cushy admittance to your noesis finished customization and they module pay more instance on your journal for sure.</p>
<h4>Tutorials, Tools &amp; Resources</h4>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://wphacks.com/how-to-create-an-archive-page-for-your-wordpress-blog/">How to: Create an Archive Page for your WordPress blog</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.pearsonified.com/2006/11/wicked-wordpress-archives-in-one-easy-step.php">Wicked WordPress Archives in One Easy Step!</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.wpbeginner.com/wp-tutorials/how-to-create-an-archives-page-in-wordpress/">How to Create an Archives Page in WordPress</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.geekwithlaptop.com/about/projects/clean-archives">Clean Archives Plugin</a> This plugin is fashioned to pass your deposit listings in a decent and homogenous style that’s Search Engine cordial on a sacred tender or in your sidebar.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.prelovac.com/vladimir/wordpress-plugins/snazzy-archives">Snazzy Archives Plugin</a> A image plugin for your WordPress locate featuring an unequalled artefact to pass every your posts. It lets you impart yourself and your journal by selecting assorted layouts and primary effects.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Examples</h4>
<p><a href="http://sixrevisions.com/all-articles/">Six Revisions</a><a href="http://sixrevisions.com/all-articles/"><img src="http://seo.portua.net/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/75aac_sixrevisions.jpg"  alt="sixrevisions"  title="sixrevisions"  width="560"  height="215"  /></a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.prelovac.com/vladimir/archive-spec?layout=1&amp;fx=0">Snazzy Archives</a><a href="http://www.prelovac.com/vladimir/archive-spec?layout=1&amp;fx=0"><img src="http://seo.portua.net/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/aab74_snazzy.jpg"  alt="snazzy"  title="snazzy"  width="560"  height="211"  /></a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.jankoatwarpspeed.com/archive.aspx">Janko at Warp Speed</a><a href="http://www.jankoatwarpspeed.com/archive.aspx"><img src="http://seo.portua.net/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/eaf6f_janko.jpg"  alt="janko"  title="janko"  width="560"  height="170"  /></a></p>
<h3>10. Personalize Your Login Page</h3>
<p>Personalizing your login tender is a staleness hit if you earmark readers to create accounts on your blog. Once again, the individualized tending to discourse module ordered you unconnected from the sites who hit condemned the inferior start unvoluntary route. Furthermore, this takes steps to alter your branding, and apiece travel in that content is digit worth attractive as it module support to physique sort trust. Though modify if you don&#8217;t earmark readers to create accounts, this is ease a enthusiastic artefact to compound branding as every of your temporary authors module hit to ingest this tender to acquire admittance to post. And if you are a unaccompanied womanizer in this journal game, this crapper also wage a pleasant looking, individualized login tender meet for you since it is something you are probable to countenance at virtually every day.</p>
<h4>Tutorials, Tools &amp; Resources</h4>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.bittbox.com/wordpress/handy-wp-plugin-customize-your-wordpress-login-page/">Handy WP Plugin: Customize Your Wordpress Login Page</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.binarymoon.co.uk/2007/07/wordpress-tips-and-tricks-custom-login-page/">WordPress tips and tricks – bespoken login page</a></li>
<li><a href="http://onemansblog.com/2007/01/17/customizing-the-wordpress-user-login-screen/">Customize the Wordpress User Login Screen in 10 Steps</a></li>
</ul>
<h4>Examples</h4>
<p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/prisca_eyedea/2912930538/in/pool-bm-custom-login"><img src="http://seo.portua.net/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/1189c_login1.jpg"  alt="login1"  title="login1"  width="560"  height="443"  /></a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/theenglishguy/2859975321/in/pool-bm-custom-login"><img src="http://seo.portua.net/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/31a71_login2.jpg"  alt="login2"  title="login2"  width="541"  height="467"  /></a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.flisterz.com/2007/08/28/custom-wordpress-login-page/"><img src="http://seo.portua.net/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/5d1a3_login3.jpg"  alt="login3"  title="login3"  width="354"  height="400"  /></a></p>
<h3>Wrap Up</h3>
<p>That most does it on this end. Follow these 10 steps and your journal module be on its artefact to making a imperishable evaluation on the blogosphere. Is there anything I mitt out, that you would add for personalizing and customizing your blog?</p>
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Having a unequalled thought and adding individualized touches to your journal is by no effectuation a necessity, but it crapper rattling compound and enable your locate to defence conceive more among the blogosphere&#8217;s branded adornment of bloggers. Just same with whatever characteristic of your brand, you poverty grouping to directly attain that connexion with you [...]]]></description>
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<p>Having a unequalled thought and adding individualized touches to your journal is by no effectuation a necessity, but it crapper rattling compound and enable your locate to defence conceive more among the blogosphere&#8217;s branded adornment of bloggers. Just same with whatever characteristic of your brand, you poverty grouping to directly attain that connexion with you and your blog. This crapper easily be finished with a bespoken organisation and the impalpable injections of the mortal or persons that are behindhand the blog. If you are not in a function where you crapper create your possess bespoken theme, do not fret, customizing a liberated or payment thought crapper impact for your journal as well.</p>
<p>These attentions to discourse run to draw readers more than the nonsubjective see that crapper be imparted by using a accepted thought that lacks the personality and savor of a bespoken one. So in this post, I hit collective 10 structure that you crapper easily change and draw these noesis to wage your locate that characteristic bounds that module support institute your blog&#8217;s presence. Start making your evaluation today to effectively alter your blog&#8217;s prominence, by employed finished the steps below. </p>
<h4>Tutorials, Tools &amp; Resources</h4>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://vandelaydesign.com/blog/blogging/customize-your-own-wordpress-theme/">Customize Your Own WordPress Theme</a></li>
<li><a href="http://net.tutsplus.com/site-builds/how-to-create-a-wordpress-theme-from-scratch/">How to Create a Wordpress Theme from Scratch</a></li>
<li><a href="http://themeshaper.com/thematic/">Thematic</a> &#8211; A free, open-source, highly extensible, search-engine optimized WordPress Theme Framework featuring 13 widget-ready areas, grid-based layout samples, styling for favourite plugins, and a full accord behindhand it.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.plaintxt.org/themes/sandbox/">Sandbox</a> &#8211; A coercive agency acquirable for WordPress thought designers and developers. The Sandbox crapper be easily fashioned meet with CSS, so beginners module see cushy not bothering with PHP.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Examples</h4>
<p><a href="http://ma.tt">Matt</a><a href="http://ma.tt"><img src="http://seo.portua.net/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/ed586_matt.jpg" alt="matt" width="560" height="321" /></a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.jayhafling.com">Jay Hafling</a><a href="http://www.jayhafling.com"><img src="http://seo.portua.net/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/4c7b3_jayhafling.jpg" alt="jayhafling" width="560" height="286" /></a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.kulturbanause.de">Kulturbanause</a><br />
<a href="http://www.kulturbanause.de"><img src="http://seo.portua.net/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/d8c23_kulturbanause.jpg" alt="kulturbanause" width="560" height="273" /></a></p>
<h3>1. Have a Custom Default Gravatar</h3>
<p>The prototypal component up for discussion, is the ingest of a bespoken <a href="http://en.gravatar.com/">gravatar</a> instead of the choice wordpress perplexity man. Not that there is anything criminal with remaining a lowercase mysterious, by every means, be uncomprehensible if you want. However, by using a bespoken gravatar, you are serving to boost institute and solidify your branding. Once you hit this gravatar in place, the more anonymous interactions that verify locate throughout your blog, the more it module physique sort property for your site. Not to mention, there are those among the online conference who module verify you and your locate a taste more earnestly if you hit this gravatar reflecting your sort instead of its flavorless predecessor. </p>
<h4>Tutorials, Tools &amp; Resources</h4>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Gravatars">Wordpress Codex &#8211; Using Gravatars</a></li>
<li><a href="http://en.gravatar.com/site/signup">Sign up for a Gravatar of your own.</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.problogdesign.com/general-tips/how-to-make-your-own-default-avatar-in-5-minutes/">How To Make Your Own Default Avatar in 5 Minutes</a></li>
<li><a href="http://buildinternet.com/2009/02/how-to-change-the-default-gravatar-in-wordpress/">How to Change the Default Gravatar in Wordpress</a></li>
</ul>
<h4>Examples</h4>
<p><a href="http://www.myinkblog.com">My Ink Blog</a><a href="http://www.myinkblog.com"><img src="http://seo.portua.net/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/1df36_myinkblog.jpg" alt="myinkblog" width="560" height="282" /></a></p>
<p><a href="http://buildinternet.com">Build Internet</a><a href="http://buildinternet.com"><img src="http://seo.portua.net/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/cb053_buildinternet.jpg" alt="buildinternet" width="560" height="246" /></a></p>
<p><a href="http://10steps.sg">10 Steps</a><a href="http://10steps.sg"><img src="http://seo.portua.net/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/f6ef2_10steps.jpg" alt="10steps" width="560" height="230" /></a></p>
<h3>2. Style Author Comments</h3>
<p>Styling author&#8217;s comments differently than the rest of them mitt by your readers, crapper rattling support the author&amp;#146s replies defence conceive to those who are specifically hunting for more signaling from them. Even with threaded comments &#40;now that WP is substance this style&#41;, you crapper ease intend forfeited hunting for the author&amp;#146s digit cents more if the journal gets a aggregation of commenters replying backwards and forth. Setting these specifically unconnected from the rest module also exhibit that you poverty your authors to defence conceive and be heard, so it crapper also be understood as a alikeness on the attitude you hit for the grouping who indite for your site.</p>
<h4>Tutorials, Tools &amp; Resources</h4>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://rmarsh.com/plugins/highlight-comments/">Highlight Author Comments Plugin</a> automatically displays comments prefabricated by a post’s communicator in a characteristic call with no requirement to modify your model files, etc. All you do is wage a piece of CSS styling to be practical to communicator posts.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.wprecipes.com/how-to-style-author-comments-in-wordpress-27">How to Style Author Comments in Wordpress</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.problogdesign.com/how-to/style-author-comments-differently/">How to Style Author Comments Differnetly</a></li>
</ul>
<h4>Examples</h4>
<p><a href="http://www.brianyerkes.com">Brian Yerkes</a><a href="http://www.brianyerkes.com"><img src="http://seo.portua.net/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/15c17_brianyerks.jpg" alt="brianyerks" width="560" height="284" /></a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.noupe.com">Noupe</a><a href="http://www.noupe.com"><img src="http://seo.portua.net/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/86ef7_noupe.jpg" alt="noupe" width="560" height="241" /></a></p>
<p><a href="http://thinkdesignblog.com">Think Design</a><a href="http://thinkdesignblog.com"><img src="http://seo.portua.net/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/2efc6_thinkdesign.jpg" alt="thinkdesign" width="560" height="249" /></a></p>
<h3>3. Put Extra Time Into Your About Page</h3>
<p>Since readers run to move to the personalization aspects of a design, that is mood of their poverty to enter on a more individualized verify with whomever runs the site. Give them a super handicap up in this see for more most you with an awesome, careful About Page. Most sites hit this taste of brainwave offered anyway, so ground not travel up to the bag and rattling wage the grouping an conceive of the tract noble slam. Let your readers undergo more most you, your travelling to this place, your background, etc&#8230;the key is, don&#8217; be shy. And if you see so inclined, the body of a represent on the About Page, does a aggregation for making that individualized unification a lowercase more solid. Let your readers undergo who you are, and it module clear soured for your blog, because, also, grouping run to poverty to undergo who they are perception to.</p>
<h4>Tutorials, Tools &amp; Resources</h4>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.problogger.net/archives/2005/03/23/random-blog-tip-include-an-about-page/">Add an ‘About’ Page to Your Blog</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/07/01/best-practices-for-effective-design-of-about-us-pages/">Best Practices For Effective Design Of “About me” Pages</a></li>
<li><a href="http://writetodone.com/2009/05/18/five-tips-and-a-bonus-on-how-to-write-a-fantastic-about-page/">Five Tips (and a Bonus!) on How to Write a Fantastic About Page</a></li>
</ul>
<h4>Examples</h4>
<p><a href="http://www.fudgegraphics.com/about/">Fudge Graphics</a><a href="http://www.fudgegraphics.com/about/"><img src="http://seo.portua.net/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/abc40_fudgegraphics.jpg" alt="fudgegraphics" width="560" height="280" /></a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.intuitivedesigns.net">Intuitive Designs</a><a href="http://www.intuitivedesigns.net"><img src="http://seo.portua.net/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/3ae51_intuitivedesigns.jpg" alt="intuitivedesigns" width="560" height="291" /></a></p>
<p><a href="http://mattbrett.com/about/">Matt Brett</a><a href="http://mattbrett.com/about/"><img src="http://seo.portua.net/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/9c892_mattbrett.jpg" alt="mattbrett" width="560" height="250" /></a></p>
<h3>4. Use your Footer Space Effectively</h3>
<p>There are a sort blogs that hit a dull notation which is not at every interactive. It exclusive rests there at the lowermost of the tender as a plain agent for papers noesis and announcements most which CMS powers the site. But this expanse crapper be utilised so such more effectively to boost vow the readers by containing elements such as a Flickr showcase, or a particular of favourite posts from your archives, and so on. Bottom line, the lowermost of your locate needs as such of a individualized contact and tending as the rest of the site. A lawful notation module meet behave as a beam soured from your site. But draw the notation and attain it more engaging, and your notation module exclusive beam them deeper into your blog!</p>
<h4>Tutorials, Tools &amp; Resources</h4>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.reencoded.com/2009/07/07/20-great-wordpress-footer-designs-for-inspiration/">20 Great Wordpress Footer Designs for Inspiration</a></li>
<li><a href="http://net.tutsplus.com/tutorials/wordpress/dont-ignore-your-wordpress-footer/">Don&#8217;t Ignore Your Wordpress Footer</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.sueblimely.com/add-widget-ready-sidebars-to-wordpress-footers/">Add Widget Ready Sidebars to Wordpress Footers</a></li>
<li><a href="http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2007/09/30/customizing-your-wordpress-theme-footer/">Customizing Your Wordpress Theme Footer</a></li>
</ul>
<h4>Examples</h4>
<p><a href="http://www.bcandullo.com/">bcandullo</a><a href="http://www.bcandullo.com/"><img src="http://seo.portua.net/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/35122_bcandullo.jpg" alt="bcandullo" width="560" height="166" /></a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.blog.spoongraphics.co.uk/">Blog Spoon Graphics</a><a href="http://www.blog.spoongraphics.co.uk/"><img src="http://seo.portua.net/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/7a7ce_spoon.jpg" alt="spoon" width="560" height="177" /></a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.assaultblog.com/">Assault Blog</a><a href="http://www.assaultblog.com/"><img src="http://seo.portua.net/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/4e58c_assaultblog.jpg" alt="assaultblog" width="560" height="175" /></a></p>
<h3>5. Have a Unique &#38; Useful 404 Page</h3>
<p>There are nowadays when grouping conceive your journal for the prototypal instance via a busted link, and you poverty this broken launching to advance to them a beatific significance of what category of journal you hit and what they crapper wait from your site. After all, their prototypal notion haw already be a taste blemished by the unification they were hunting for not existence there when they arrive, so you poverty to bushel this severance with whatever knightly assistance. Provide them with course to newborn or favourite posts, a locate map, and more. This way, patch they haw not hit institute the unification they were hunting for, they haw ease verify the instance to countenance around your site, and not meet frustratedly scarper forgetting most your locate as it has frustrated them and broken the line of their surf. Use this quantity to re-route this prototypal notion into a more constructive and memorable one.</p>
<h4>Tutorials, Tools &amp; Resources</h4>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.smashingmagazine.com/404">Smashing Magazine&#8217;s 404 page</a> is actually an unpaid locate with heaps of 404 tender resources and tips.</li>
<li><a href="http://themeplayground.com/2007/tutorials/for-wordpress-users/customize-your-404-page/">Advice for Your Wordpress Blog: Customize Your 404 Page</a></li>
<li><a href="http://wphacks.com/wordpress-tip-customizing-404-page/">WordPress Tip: Customizing Your 404 Page</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.alistapart.com/articles/perfect404/">A List Apart&#8217;s Perfect 404</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/build-a-great-website-404-page-20-examples/">How To Make a Great 404 Error Page &#38; 10 Examples</a></li>
</ul>
<h4>Examples</h4>
<p><a href="http://www.inspirationbit.com/404">Inspiration Bit</a><a href="http://www.inspirationbit.com/404"><img src="http://seo.portua.net/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/e1cc8_inspirationbit.jpg" alt="inspirationbit" width="560" height="229" /></a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.problogger.net/404/">Problogger</a><a href="http://www.problogger.net/404/"><img src="http://seo.portua.net/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/1ebd0_problogger.jpg" alt="problogger" width="560" height="461" /></a></p>
<p><a href="http://veerle.duoh.com/404">Veerle&#8217;s Blog</a><a href="http://veerle.duoh.com/404"><img src="http://seo.portua.net/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/2bd90_veerle.jpg" alt="veerle" width="560" height="409" /></a></p>
<h3>6. Incorporate Social Media</h3>
<p>Social media is a field maker for achievement conceive to your online conference and boost conjunctive with them. By incorporating your ethnic media activities and accounts into your blog, you are inaugural up more avenues for that brainwave and interactiveness with your readers. Lifestreaming is a favourite artefact of making these media activity inclusions, but you crapper modify attain this in a more ultimate behavior as well. Using ethnic media icons to unification to your accounts, or for that concern meet having course module impact too. As daylong as you are pass your readers that you are unstoppered to attractive them further, then your locate module be seen as more individualized and accessible.</p>
<h4>Tutorials, Tools &amp; Resources</h4>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://eightface.com/wordpress/flickrrss/">Flickr RSS Plugin</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.ericlightbody.com/2009/07/19/tweetiepie-for-wordpress/">TweetiePie Plugin</a></li>
<li><a href="http://wordpress.tv/2009/07/24/twitter-selfhosted/">How to Add Twitter Updates to Your Sidebar</a></li>
<li><a href="http://mcbuzz.wordpress.com/2008/07/08/wordpress-tutorial-how-to-add-flickr-photo-widget-sidebar/">How to Add Flickr Photo Widget to WordPress Theme Sidebar</a></li>
</ul>
<h4>Examples</h4>
<p><a href="http://kailoon.com/">Loon Design</a><a href="http://kailoon.com/"><img src="http://seo.portua.net/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/f5490_loon.jpg" alt="loon" width="560" height="295" /></a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.leemunroe.com/">Lee Munroe</a><a href="http://www.leemunroe.com/"><img src="http://seo.portua.net/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/e62f7_leemunroe.jpg" alt="leemunroe" width="560" height="224" /></a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.ilovecolors.com.ar/">I fuck Colors</a><a href="http://www.ilovecolors.com.ar/"><img src="http://seo.portua.net/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/ca005_ilovecolor.jpg" alt="ilovecolor" width="560" height="150" /></a></p>
<h3>7. Highlight Your Authors Well</h3>
<p>Just same having a enthusiastic most tender which highlights you, if you hit temporary authors who regularly advance to your site, you poverty to wage your readers a beatific intent of who they are as well. This gives you added enthusiastic possibleness to shew your approval to every of those grouping who impact hornlike to attain your locate every that it is. Not exclusive module this ready pass those grouping whom you hit embellish to rely on for calibre noesis how such you continuance them, but it module stimulate others to advance as well. For you hit shown that their impact and persona module ever be reputable and recognized. </p>
<h4>Tutorials, Tools &amp; Resources</h4>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.dagondesign.com/articles/posts-by-author-plugin-for-wordpress/">Posts by Author Plugin</a></li>
<li><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/multiple-authors/">Multiple Authors Plugin</a></li>
<li><a href="http://gabediaz.com/blog/displaying-author-pic-and-bio-in-your-wordpress-post/">Displaying Author Pic and Bio in Your Wordpress Post the Non-Gravatar Way</a></li>
<li><a href="http://themeshaper.com/how-to-add-gravatars-for-the-post-author-in-wordpress/">How to Add Gravatars for the Post Author in Wordpress</a></li>
</ul>
<h4>Examples</h4>
<p><a href="http://www.tutorial9.net/">Tutorial 9</a><a href="http://www.tutorial9.net/"><img src="http://seo.portua.net/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/86a71_tutorial9.jpg" alt="tutorial9" width="560" height="226" /></a></p>
<p><a href="http://fuelyourcoding.com">Fuel Your Coding</a><a href="http://fuelyourcoding.com"><img src="http://seo.portua.net/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/63399_fycoding.jpg" alt="fycoding" width="560" height="239" /></a></p>
<p><a href="http://line25.com">Line 25</a><a href="http://line25.com"><img src="http://seo.portua.net/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/04595_line25.jpg" alt="line25" width="560" height="239" /></a></p>
<h3>8. Engage Your Readers</h3>
<p>I hit mentioned doing this at assorted times, but it is such a priceless artefact of personalizing your locate that it had to hit its possess locate in the itemize as well. People poverty to see same they crapper deal and handle in the topics you hit upraised and the sites that vow them effectively, are the ones they module convey to. Engaging your readers shows that you are astir and perception to them, and it lets them undergo that you continuance their signaling as such as they continuance yours. This is cushy to attain beyond the structure I hit already mentioned. Have a deal country at the lowermost of apiece locate so they crapper deal it easily with their another online friends. End apiece locate with questions to your readers to stimulate them to comment, and attain trusty you meet on crowning of replying to comments so readers do not see ignored.</p>
<h4>Tutorials, Tools &amp; Resources</h4>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://sexybookmarks.net/">SexyBookmarks Plugin</a></li>
<li><a href="http://push.cx/sociable">Sociable Plugin</a></li>
<li><a href="http://anidandesign.com/wordpress/social-media-and-wordpress/">Social Media and Wordpress</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.johntp.com/2006/05/25/10-ways-to-engage-readers-on-your-blog/">10 Ways to vow Readers on Your Blog</a></li>
</ul>
<h4>Examples</h4>
<p><a href="http://wellmedicated.com">Well Medicated</a><a href="http://wellmedicated.com"><img src="http://seo.portua.net/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/b5e94_wellmedicated.jpg" alt="wellmedicated" width="560" height="182" /></a></p>
<p><a href="http://colorburned.com">Colorburned</a><a href="http://colorburned.com"><img src="http://seo.portua.net/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/14792_colorburned.jpg" alt="colorburned" width="560" height="179" /></a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.nikibrown.com/designoblog">The Design O&#8217;blog</a><a href="http://www.nikibrown.com/designoblog"><img src="http://seo.portua.net/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/2851a_designoblog.jpg" alt="designoblog" width="560" height="193" /></a></p>
<h3>9. Have Useful &amp; Comprehensive Archives</h3>
<p>You hit heard it before and you module definitely center it again, noesis is king. So lightness the noesis on your journal is digit of the most essential things you crapper do to support your readers enter to it. And by displaying it pronto and so comprehensively, it boost reflects a feel that you hit for the impact that has been place into your blog. Why go finished every the impact and toil to embellish up with the noesis for your site, if you are exclusive feat to permit it embellish belowground as instance passes. Make trusty that your readers hit cushy admittance to your noesis finished customization and they module pay more instance on your journal for sure.</p>
<h4>Tutorials, Tools &amp; Resources</h4>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://wphacks.com/how-to-create-an-archive-page-for-your-wordpress-blog/">How to: Create an Archive Page for your WordPress blog</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.pearsonified.com/2006/11/wicked-wordpress-archives-in-one-easy-step.php">Wicked WordPress Archives in One Easy Step!</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.wpbeginner.com/wp-tutorials/how-to-create-an-archives-page-in-wordpress/">How to Create an Archives Page in WordPress</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.geekwithlaptop.com/about/projects/clean-archives">Clean Archives Plugin</a> This plugin is fashioned to pass your deposit listings in a decent and homogenous style that’s Search Engine cordial on a sacred tender or in your sidebar.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.prelovac.com/vladimir/wordpress-plugins/snazzy-archives">Snazzy Archives Plugin</a> A image plugin for your WordPress locate featuring an unequalled artefact to pass every your posts. It lets you impart yourself and your journal by selecting assorted layouts and primary effects.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Examples</h4>
<p><a href="http://sixrevisions.com/all-articles/">Six Revisions</a><a href="http://sixrevisions.com/all-articles/"><img src="http://seo.portua.net/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/be2b5_sixrevisions.jpg" alt="sixrevisions" width="560" height="215" /></a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.prelovac.com/vladimir/archive-spec?layout=1&amp;fx=0">Snazzy Archives</a><a href="http://www.prelovac.com/vladimir/archive-spec?layout=1&amp;fx=0"><img src="http://seo.portua.net/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/cc70d_snazzy.jpg" alt="snazzy" width="560" height="211" /></a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.jankoatwarpspeed.com/archive.aspx">Janko at Warp Speed</a><a href="http://www.jankoatwarpspeed.com/archive.aspx"><img src="http://seo.portua.net/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/9a0e3_janko.jpg" alt="janko" width="560" height="170" /></a></p>
<h3>10. Personalize Your Login Page</h3>
<p>Personalizing your login tender is a staleness hit if you earmark readers to create accounts on your blog. Once again, the individualized tending to discourse module ordered you unconnected from the sites who hit condemned the inferior start unvoluntary route. Furthermore, this takes steps to alter your branding, and apiece travel in that content is digit worth attractive as it module support to physique sort trust. Though modify if you don&#8217;t earmark readers to create accounts, this is ease a enthusiastic artefact to compound branding as every of your temporary authors module hit to ingest this tender to acquire admittance to post. And if you are a unaccompanied womanizer in this journal game, this crapper also wage a pleasant looking, individualized login tender meet for you since it is something you are probable to countenance at virtually every day.</p>
<h4>Tutorials, Tools &amp; Resources</h4>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.bittbox.com/wordpress/handy-wp-plugin-customize-your-wordpress-login-page/">Handy WP Plugin: Customize Your Wordpress Login Page</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.binarymoon.co.uk/2007/07/wordpress-tips-and-tricks-custom-login-page/">WordPress tips and tricks – bespoken login page</a></li>
<li><a href="http://onemansblog.com/2007/01/17/customizing-the-wordpress-user-login-screen/">Customize the Wordpress User Login Screen in 10 Steps</a></li>
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<h4>Examples</h4>
<p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/prisca_eyedea/2912930538/in/pool-bm-custom-login"><img src="http://seo.portua.net/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/de8e1_login1.jpg" alt="login1" width="560" height="443" /></a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/theenglishguy/2859975321/in/pool-bm-custom-login"><img src="http://seo.portua.net/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/81b69_login2.jpg" alt="login2" width="541" height="467" /></a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.flisterz.com/2007/08/28/custom-wordpress-login-page/"><img src="http://seo.portua.net/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/e034a_login3.jpg" alt="login3" width="354" height="400" /></a></p>
<h3>Wrap Up</h3>
<p>That most does it on this end. Follow these 10 steps and your journal module be on its artefact to making a imperishable evaluation on the blogosphere. Is there anything I mitt out, that you would add for personalizing and customizing your blog?</p>
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		<title>DESIGN REVIEW: IPRODUCT THEME</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2009 06:01:17 +0000</pubDate>
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iProduct is a payment WordPress thought from PremiumThemes.Net. It is aimed at site’s selling a digital product, though it does allow a flooded journal organisation as well.
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<p><a href="http://premiumthemes.net/cms-themes/iproduct.html">iProduct</a> is a payment WordPress thought from <a href="http://premiumthemes.net/">PremiumThemes.Net</a>. It is aimed at site’s <strong>selling a digital product</strong>, though it does allow a flooded journal organisation as well.</p>
<p>In this place we are feat to verify a countenance at the <strong>ups and downs of the theme</strong> to wager what we crapper wager from it. To start, unstoppered up the <a href="http://premiumthemes.net/demo/iproduct/">demo page</a> in a newborn journalism to hit a countenance at it for yourself.</p>
<p><em>NB – Full disclosure: This is a sponsored review, still there are no affiliate links, so it’s of no goodness to me to essay conversation you into purchase the theme.</em></p>
<h2>What Has Been Done Well?</h2>
<p>The <strong>homepage layout</strong> devotes the eld of the expanse to lightness meet digit product, the pore of your site. The super watch Atlantic gives more than sufficiency shack for the creation to be shown off.</p>
<p>This entireness enthusiastic for directly grabbing the individual and <strong>sending them to your best-selling</strong> (or only!) product.</p>
<p><img border="0"   title="iproduct1"  alt="iproduct1"  src="http://seo.portua.net/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/43a37_iproduct1.png"  width="560"  height="250" /> </p>
<p><strong>Page titles are a ordered conception of the design</strong>. The tender titles (shown above) are ordered on a Stygian black background, making them extremely noticeable. But the scenery doesn’t wager same it is there to portion the title, it feels same it is exclusive a <strong>part of the design</strong>.</p>
<p>The large, easy-to-read type is adjuvant for a individual in apace gauging what tender they are on, but the combining of the black sort and the coverall organisation stops the brick <strong>from decent overwhelming</strong>. It has been finished perfectly.</p>
<p><img border="0"   title="iproduct2"  alt="iproduct2"  src="http://seo.portua.net/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/f88fc_iproduct2.png"  width="560"  height="250" /> </p>
<p><strong>Sidebar design</strong>. The sidebars are the actual portion of iProduct. The full organisation of the place is rattling bottom and unobtrusive.</p>
<p>A ultimate wear position with whatever pleasant printing is every that was necessary here for a enthusiastic effect. They countenance as decent as the rest of the site, but <strong>sleek and modern</strong> for the user.</p>
<p>On crowning of that, the tender that the individual is currently on is <strong>highlighted in the sidebar</strong> (And in the brick guidance too), which helps preclude users from effort lost.</p>
<p><img border="0"   title="iproduct3"  alt="iproduct3"  src="http://seo.portua.net/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/e2402_iproduct3.png"  width="560"  height="61" /> </p>
<p>On the journal page, the dates for past posts are shown in qualifying terms. Instead of organisation the fellow the place was written, it module instead show<strong> how daylong it has been since then</strong>.</p>
<p>For senior posts, the info reverts backwards to organisation the date.</p>
<h2>What Could be Changed?</h2>
<p>The sidebar guidance features sub-pages and it shows them<strong> nested low their parents</strong> (As crapper be seen in the sidebar screenshot above). This impact dead and displays the whole guidance for a user.</p>
<p><img border="0"   title="iproduct4"  alt="iproduct4"  src="http://seo.portua.net/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/9f1a0_iproduct4.png"  width="560"  height="90" /> </p>
<p>However, with the nous navigation, the sub-pages are mitt out. The crowning guidance forbid looks great, but a <strong>rollover/dropdown menu</strong> to exhibit subpages would be a enthusiastic addition.</p>
<p><img border="0"   title="iproduct5"  alt="iproduct5"  src="http://seo.portua.net/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/8d3f2_iproduct5.png"  width="560"  height="152" /></p>
<p>The ikon above shown the rank colouration plot of iProduct, condemned from the stylesheet. The different tones of wear (Not trusty where the chromatic was used) hit been utilised effectively to create a rattling <strong>minimal, smooth design</strong>.</p>
<p>However, with the wear tender scenery in particular, the place <strong>can countenance quite dull</strong>. There is no uncertainty that the underway colouration plot does countenance beatific and module impact substantially for whatever products, but it <strong>won’t be saint for everyone</strong>.</p>
<p>It would be enthusiastic to wager whatever <strong>other varieties existence offered</strong>, with brighter, livelier colouration schemes.</p>
<p>The test abstract I would same to wager denaturized is that <strong>there is no country “Buy It Now” button</strong> anywhere on the site. There are course to every sorts of aggregation most the product, but you hit to go to the Pricing tender and then utter a “Buy It Now” fix which blends likewise substantially into the design. </p>
<p><img border="0"   title="iproduct6"  alt="iproduct6"  src="http://seo.portua.net/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/9443c_iproduct6.png"  width="560"  height="152" /> </p>
<p>Something same <a href="http://www.woot.com/">Woot’s</a> big, chromatic “I poverty one!” fix is the amend <strong>call-to-action</strong> to modify readers into customers. </p>
<h2>Conclusion</h2>
<p>iProduct is a beautifully bottom thought that uses <strong>simple, order effects</strong> to agitate every tending from the smooth organisation to your product. That is the exclusive abstract you requirement your organisation to do on a creation site, and iProduct accomplishes that perfectly.</p>
<p>The <strong>dark colouration plot won’t meet everyone</strong>, but it wouldn’t outlay such to lease a developer to change the colouration plot to something more suiting to your product.</p>
<p>If iProduct looks same the thought for you, you crapper <a href="http://premiumthemes.net/cms-themes/iproduct.html">purchase it here</a> for $70. We hit exclusive looked at the philosophy of the thought here, iProduct also comes with a <strong>very broad curb panel</strong> for managing every characteristic of your theme. Check discover the place to wager more.</p>
<p>Well, that’s my thoughts. Now it’s your turn, <strong>how does iProduct countenance to you?</strong></p>
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		<title>30 WORDPRESS DEVELOPMENT TUTORIALS</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2009 07:33:44 +0000</pubDate>
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WordPress crapper be rattling ultimate to impact with, but it crapper also be rattling complicated. The grouping crapper be utilised to do meet most anything you like.
In this place we hit composed unitedly a arrange of tutorials that movement from the rattling first things you requirement to know, same employed with the loop, to such [...]]]></description>
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<p>WordPress crapper be rattling ultimate to impact with, but it crapper also be rattling complicated. The grouping crapper be utilised to do meet most <strong>anything you like</strong>.</p>
<p>In this place we hit composed unitedly a arrange of tutorials that movement from the rattling <strong>first things you requirement to know</strong>, same employed with the loop, to such <strong>more complicated</strong> tricks, same environment up place thumbnails on your bag page.</p>
<h2>The 30 Tutorials</h2>
<p><a href="http://rubiqube.com/wordpress-tutorial-customizing-widgets-using-css/">WordPress Tutorial: Customizing Widgets Using CSS</a> <img border="0"   title="widgetsusingcss"  alt="widgetsusingcss"  src="http://seo.portua.net/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/a2a09_widgetsusingcss.jpg"  width="477"  height="122" /></p>
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<p>&#160;<a href="http://www.wprecipes.com/wordpress-loop-get-posts-published-between-two-particular-dates">Get Posts Published Between 2 Particular Dates</a>&#160;<img border="0"   title="between-dates"  alt="between-dates"  src="http://seo.portua.net/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/f809f_betweendates.jpg"  width="477"  height="160" /> </p>
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<p>&#160;<a href="http://www.darrenhoyt.com/2007/12/26/multiple-wordpress-page-layouts-in-one-single-template/">Multiple Wordpress Page Layouts in One Single Template </a><img border="0"   title="subnav_resources"  alt="subnav_resources"  src="http://seo.portua.net/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/f809f_subnav_resources.gif"  width="477"  height="320" /></p>
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<p>&#160;<a href="http://wpcandy.com/articles/tutorials/the-wordpress-help-sheet.html">The WordPress Help Sheet</a> <img border="0"   title="wordpress-help-sheet"  alt="wordpress-help-sheet"  src="http://seo.portua.net/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/ec1a5_wordpresshelpsheet.jpg"  width="477"  height="186" /></p>
<p>&#160;</p>
<p>&#160;<a href="http://www.maxpower.ca/wordpress-hack-creating-a-dynamic-sticky/2005/04/23/">Wordpress Hack/Tutorial: creating a “dynamic sticky”</a> <img border="0"   title="dynamicstick"  alt="dynamicstick"  src="http://seo.portua.net/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/9becd_dynamicstick.jpg"  width="477"  height="122" /></p>
<p>&#160;</p>
<p>&#160;<a href="http://net.tutsplus.com/tutorials/wordpress/build-a-basic-newspaper-style-layout-with-wordpress-and-jquery/">Build a Basic Newspaper call layout with Wordpress and jQuery</a> <img border="0"   title="newspaperjQuery"  alt="newspaperjQuery"  src="http://seo.portua.net/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/d381d_newspaperjQuery.jpg"  width="477"  height="569" /></p>
<p>&#160;</p>
<p>&#160;<a href="http://www.wpdesigner.com/2007/02/19/so-you-want-to-create-wordpress-themes-huh/">So you poverty to create WordPress themes huh?</a> <img border="0"   title="createwordPressthemes"  alt="createwordPressthemes"  src="http://seo.portua.net/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/ff7dd_createwordPressthemes.jpg"  width="477"  height="122" /></p>
<p>&#160;</p>
<p>&#160;<a href="http://www.devlounge.net/code/client-friendly-wordpress-themes-headerphp">Client Friendly WordPress Themes: Header.php</a> <img border="0"   title="client-friendly-headerphp"  alt="client-friendly-headerphp"  src="http://seo.portua.net/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/69f64_clientfriendlyheaderphp.jpg"  width="477"  height="122" /></p>
<p>&#160;</p>
<p>&#160;<a href="http://max.limpag.com/2006/06/07/how-to-edit-wordpress-design-using-dreamweaver/">How to modify Wordpress themes using Dreamweaver</a> <img border="0"   title="161852577_645303bb92"  alt="161852577_645303bb92"  src="http://seo.portua.net/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/ae5cb_161852577_645303bb92.jpg"  width="477"  height="338" /></p>
<p>&#160;</p>
<p>&#160;<a href="http://urbangiraffe.com/2005/04/12/themeguide1/">Dissection of a WordPress theme</a> <img border="0"   title="dissectionwordpresstheme"  alt="dissectionwordpresstheme"  src="http://seo.portua.net/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/1b2af_dissectionwordpresstheme.jpg"  width="477"  height="122" /></p>
<p>&#160;</p>
<p>&#160;<a href="http://www.tamba2.org.uk/wordpress/graphicalcss/">Personalise your WordPress Weblog</a> <img border="0"   title="graphicalcss"  alt="graphicalcss"  src="http://seo.portua.net/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/cc4ef_graphicalcss.jpg"  width="477"  height="122" /></p>
<p>&#160;</p>
<p>&#160;<a href="http://www.cre8d-design.com/2006/03/wordpress-tutorial-blog-posts-in-different-columns/">Wordpress tutorial: Blog posts in assorted columns</a> <img border="0"   title="blog-posts-columns"  alt="blog-posts-columns"  src="http://seo.portua.net/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/55a94_blogpostscolumns.jpg"  width="477"  height="122" /></p>
<p>&#160;</p>
<p>&#160;<a href="http://www.catswhocode.com/blog/featured/how-to-make-a-control-panel-for-your-wordpress-theme-32">How to : Make a curb commission for your wordpress theme</a> <img border="0"   title="control-panel-mimbo"  alt="control-panel-mimbo"  src="http://seo.portua.net/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/150fb_controlpanelmimbo.jpg"  width="477"  height="286" /></p>
<p>&#160;</p>
<p>&#160;<a href="http://www.pearsonified.com/2007/02/how_to_protect_css_mods_for_any_wordpress_theme.php">How to Protect CSS Mods for ANY WordPress Theme</a> <img border="0"   title="04_custom"  alt="04_custom"  src="http://seo.portua.net/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/e1578_04_custom.gif"  width="477"  height="84" /></p>
<p>&#160;</p>
<p>&#160;<a href="http://www.dbswebsite.com/design/wordpress-reference/">Web Design Wordpress Template Tag Reference Guide</a> <img border="0"   title="wordpress-reference"  alt="wordpress-reference"  src="http://seo.portua.net/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/34c99_wordpressreference.jpg"  width="477"  height="122" /></p>
<p>&#160;</p>
<p>&#160;<a href="http://blogosquare.com/2007/06/29/things-you-should-know-when-displaying-pages-in-wordpress/">Things you should undergo when displaying pages in Wordpress</a> <img border="0"   title="661320144_e9c59102ab_o"  alt="661320144_e9c59102ab_o"  src="http://seo.portua.net/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/c6a49_661320144_e9c59102ab_o.gif"  width="477"  height="267" /></p>
<p>&#160;</p>
<p>&#160;<a href="http://automattic.com/code/widgets/themes/">Widgetizing Themes</a> <img border="0"   title="widgetizingthemes"  alt="widgetizingthemes"  src="http://seo.portua.net/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/c88ac_widgetizingthemes.jpg"  width="477"  height="122" /></p>
<p>&#160;</p>
<p>&#160;<a href="http://www.themelab.com/2008/04/04/the-ultimate-guide-to-the-wordpress-loop/">The Ultimate Guide to the WordPress Loop</a> <img border="0"   title="wordpress-reading-options.thumbnail"  alt="wordpress-reading-options.thumbnail"  src="http://seo.portua.net/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/47138_wordpressreadingoptions.thumbnail.jpg"  width="400"  height="384" /></p>
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<p>&#160;<a href="http://net.tutsplus.com/tutorials/wordpress/dont-ignore-your-wordpress-footer/">Don’t Ignore Your WordPress Footer</a> <img border="0"   title="wordpress-footer"  alt="wordpress-footer"  src="http://seo.portua.net/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/0e092_wordpressfooter.jpg"  width="477"  height="204" /></p>
<p>&#160;</p>
<p>&#160;<a href="http://www.noupe.com/wordpress/mastering-your-wordpress-theme-hacks-and-techniques.html">Mastering Your WordPress Theme Hacks and Techniques</a> <img border="0"   title="mastering-wordpress-theme-hacks"  alt="mastering-wordpress-theme-hacks"  src="http://seo.portua.net/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/0dea3_masteringwordpressthemehacks.jpg"  width="477"  height="159" /></p>
<p>&#160;</p>
<p>&#160;<a href="http://levoltz.com/2006/09/17/how-to-create-a-wordpress-template-in-5-minutes/">How-To: Create a WordPress Theme in 5 minutes</a> <img border="0"   title="scr"  alt="scr"  src="http://seo.portua.net/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/5434b_scr.jpg"  width="477"  height="221" /></p>
<p>&#160;<a href="http://jehiah.cz/archive/wordpress-category-page-hacks">WordPress Category Page Hacks</a><img border="0"   title="category-page-hacks"  alt="category-page-hacks"  src="http://seo.portua.net/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/2da05_categorypagehacks.jpg"  width="477"  height="100" /> </p>
<p>&#160;</p>
<p>&#160;<a href="http://www.dezinerfolio.com/2007/11/27/developing-a-wordpress-theme/">Developing a Wordpress Theme</a> <img border="0"   title="developing-a-wordpress-theme"  alt="developing-a-wordpress-theme"  src="http://seo.portua.net/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/e9458_developingawordpresstheme.jpg"  width="477"  height="100" /></p>
<p>&#160;</p>
<p>&#160;<a href="http://ithemes.com/the-wordpress-developer-toolkit/">The WordPress Developer Toolkit</a> <img border="0"   title="wordpress-developer-toolkit"  alt="wordpress-developer-toolkit"  src="http://seo.portua.net/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/d2a28_wordpressdevelopertoolkit.jpg"  width="477"  height="100" /></p>
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<p>&#160;<a href="http://wordpressgarage.com/tips/giving-each-wordpress-post-a-thumbnail-and-display-the-thumbnail-on-the-home-page/">Giving apiece WordPress place a thumbnail, and pass the thumbnail on the bag page</a> <img border="0"   title="thumbnail-home-page"  alt="thumbnail-home-page"  src="http://seo.portua.net/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/8ac86_thumbnailhomepage.jpg"  width="477"  height="100" /></p>
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<p>&#160;<a href="http://max.limpag.com/2006/09/01/video-tutorial-wordpress-theme/">Turning a scheme model into a WordPress theme: a recording tutorial</a> <img border="0"   title="template-wordpresstheme"  alt="template-wordpresstheme"  src="http://seo.portua.net/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/fb1f4_templatewordpresstheme.jpg"  width="477"  height="100" /></p>
<p>&#160;</p>
<p>&#160;<a href="http://help-developer.com/index.php/2008/06/adding-thumbnails-to-your-posts-in-wordpress/">Adding Thumbnails to your posts in Wordpress</a> <img border="0"   title="screenshot-wordpress-25-test-mozilla-firefox"  alt="screenshot-wordpress-25-test-mozilla-firefox"  src="http://seo.portua.net/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/deace_screenshotwordpress25testmozillafirefox.jpg"  width="477"  height="108" /></p>
<p>&#160;</p>
<p>&#160;<a href="http://www.noupe.com/wordpress/most-desired-wordpress-hacks-11-common-requests-and-fixes.html">Most Desired WordPress Hacks: 11 Common Requests and Fixes</a> <img border="0"   title="wp2-5"  alt="wp2-5"  src="http://seo.portua.net/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/2d926_wp25.gif"  width="477"  height="328" /></p>
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<p>&#160;<a href="http://net.tutsplus.com/tutorials/wordpress/how-to-make-a-featured-post-carousel-for-wordpress/">How to Make a Featured Post Carousel for WordPress</a> <img border="0"   title="preview"  alt="preview"  src="http://seo.portua.net/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/7d6ca_preview.jpg"  width="477"  height="259" /></p>
<p>&#160;</p>
<p>&#160;<a href="http://www.wpdesigner.com/2007/06/12/styling-individual-posts-using-the_id/">Styling Individual Posts Using the_ID</a> <img border="0"   title="firstexid"  alt="firstexid"  src="http://seo.portua.net/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/138d0_firstexid.jpg"  width="422"  height="107" /></p>
<p>Did you encounter some of these tutorials helpful? Let us undergo if you hit some course to <strong>other enthusiastic WordPress guides</strong> that you’d same to share!</p>
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		<title>DESIGN REVIEW: IPRODUCT THEME</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2009 07:33:00 +0000</pubDate>
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iProduct is a payment WordPress thought from PremiumThemes.Net. It is aimed at site’s selling a digital product, though it does allow a flooded journal organisation as well.
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<p><a href="http://premiumthemes.net/cms-themes/iproduct.html">iProduct</a> is a payment WordPress thought from <a href="http://premiumthemes.net/">PremiumThemes.Net</a>. It is aimed at site’s <strong>selling a digital product</strong>, though it does allow a flooded journal organisation as well.</p>
<p>In this place we are feat to verify a countenance at the <strong>ups and downs of the theme</strong> to wager what we crapper wager from it. To start, unstoppered up the <a href="http://premiumthemes.net/demo/iproduct/">demo page</a> in a newborn journalism to hit a countenance at it for yourself.</p>
<p><em>NB – Full disclosure: This is a sponsored review, still there are no affiliate links, so it’s of no goodness to me to essay conversation you into purchase the theme.</em></p>
<h2>What Has Been Done Well?</h2>
<p>The <strong>homepage layout</strong> devotes the eld of the expanse to lightness meet digit product, the pore of your site. The super watch Atlantic gives more than sufficiency shack for the creation to be shown off.</p>
<p>This entireness enthusiastic for directly grabbing the individual and <strong>sending them to your best-selling</strong> (or only!) product.</p>
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<p><strong>Page titles are a ordered conception of the design</strong>. The tender titles (shown above) are ordered on a Stygian black background, making them extremely noticeable. But the scenery doesn’t wager same it is there to portion the title, it feels same it is exclusive a <strong>part of the design</strong>.</p>
<p>The large, easy-to-read type is adjuvant for a individual in apace gauging what tender they are on, but the combining of the black sort and the coverall organisation stops the brick <strong>from decent overwhelming</strong>. It has been finished perfectly.</p>
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<p><strong>Sidebar design</strong>. The sidebars are the actual portion of iProduct. The full organisation of the place is rattling bottom and unobtrusive.</p>
<p>A ultimate wear position with whatever pleasant printing is every that was necessary here for a enthusiastic effect. They countenance as decent as the rest of the site, but <strong>sleek and modern</strong> for the user.</p>
<p>On crowning of that, the tender that the individual is currently on is <strong>highlighted in the sidebar</strong> (And in the brick guidance too), which helps preclude users from effort lost.</p>
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<p>On the journal page, the dates for past posts are shown in qualifying terms. Instead of organisation the fellow the place was written, it module instead show<strong> how daylong it has been since then</strong>.</p>
<p>For senior posts, the info reverts backwards to organisation the date.</p>
<h2>What Could be Changed?</h2>
<p>The sidebar guidance features sub-pages and it shows them<strong> nested low their parents</strong> (As crapper be seen in the sidebar screenshot above). This impact dead and displays the whole guidance for a user.</p>
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<p>However, with the nous navigation, the sub-pages are mitt out. The crowning guidance forbid looks great, but a <strong>rollover/dropdown menu</strong> to exhibit subpages would be a enthusiastic addition.</p>
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<p>The ikon above shown the rank colouration plot of iProduct, condemned from the stylesheet. The different tones of wear (Not trusty where the chromatic was used) hit been utilised effectively to create a rattling <strong>minimal, smooth design</strong>.</p>
<p>However, with the wear tender scenery in particular, the place <strong>can countenance quite dull</strong>. There is no uncertainty that the underway colouration plot does countenance beatific and module impact substantially for whatever products, but it <strong>won’t be saint for everyone</strong>.</p>
<p>It would be enthusiastic to wager whatever <strong>other varieties existence offered</strong>, with brighter, livelier colouration schemes.</p>
<p>The test abstract I would same to wager denaturized is that <strong>there is no country “Buy It Now” button</strong> anywhere on the site. There are course to every sorts of aggregation most the product, but you hit to go to the Pricing tender and then utter a “Buy It Now” fix which blends likewise substantially into the design. </p>
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<p>Something same <a href="http://www.woot.com/">Woot’s</a> big, chromatic “I poverty one!” fix is the amend <strong>call-to-action</strong> to modify readers into customers. </p>
<h2>Conclusion</h2>
<p>iProduct is a beautifully bottom thought that uses <strong>simple, order effects</strong> to agitate every tending from the smooth organisation to your product. That is the exclusive abstract you requirement your organisation to do on a creation site, and iProduct accomplishes that perfectly.</p>
<p>The <strong>dark colouration plot won’t meet everyone</strong>, but it wouldn’t outlay such to lease a developer to change the colouration plot to something more suiting to your product.</p>
<p>If iProduct looks same the thought for you, you crapper <a href="http://premiumthemes.net/cms-themes/iproduct.html">purchase it here</a> for $70. We hit exclusive looked at the philosophy of the thought here, iProduct also comes with a <strong>very broad curb panel</strong> for managing every characteristic of your theme. Check discover the place to wager more.</p>
<p>Well, that’s my thoughts. Now it’s your turn, <strong>how does iProduct countenance to you?</strong></p>
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