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Sometimes a map will help your post make sense; on other occasions, it’s just an opportunity to add a beautiful image to a post. A great source for unusual and beautiful maps is Mappery.I just used a map of Manhattan in this post, NYC – free crosstown bus plan may reflect understanding of transportation system [...]
Alyssa Gregory, the autueur1 of Small Business Idea Generator blog.has a post 7 Dummy Text Generators: Which Is Your Favorite? on Sitepoint. Five I’ve known and used; two were new. As I’ve been tinkering with the design of my primary blog – Popular Logistics – I’ve started to identify the problems (let’s hope I’ve done [...]
HTML Ipsum Presents – is a website, as described by Smashing Magazine, “A useful little website created by Chris Coyier. It provides you with the standard Latin text already in HTML tags. Clicking on any of the blocks automatically copies the text to your clipboard!” Here’s one sample copied and pasted, in one click, from [...]
Skelliewag is a blog about blogging – a “Meta-Blog” – and it’s excellent. We’ll let Skellie describe herself: Skelliewag is a blog about planning, creating and growing the online projects you’re obsessed with. If you have big ideas that keep you awake at night (in a good way), this is written for you. Who is [...]
Dozens of links for those wanting to customize code – or build a theme from scratch: WordPress Developer’s Toolbox. Smashing Magazine. Most of this work is – admittedly – more sophisticated than my skill set – but the outcomes are all beautiful (or otherwise desirable), and, based on my experience with Smashing Magazine, likely to [...]
Blog Design Studio has great explanations (e.g. What is this NoFollow thing all about! – you won’t find a more concise explanation anywhere); free WP themes, some outstanding WP tutorials (particularly about security issues specific to WordPress, an often-ignored subject), and, not least, an impressive portfolio of their own work. One of those was the [...]
Found WeFunction via Noupe, another power-tool WordPress and web design site. Maybe not ideally suited for the first day after your first WordPress install, or the code-phobic. Unless what you need is inspiration, which WeFunction can provide in abundance. This is just some of what’s on their front page at the moment: 178 Free Icons: [...]
Noupe.com may have a bug. If it does, the bug is understatement. For instance, 40 Exceptional “CMS Enabling” WordPress Plugins is about 40 exceptional WordPress plugins, and many of them do, in fact, make WordPress a better CMS. 1 But these plugins aren’t limited to CMS use – some of them just are meta-WordPress plugins – [...]
A description of the aforementioned Gloson, the auteur behind GlosonBlog can fairly include the following points: He lives in Malaysia, and he’s probably not a native English speaker; I am a native English speaker, but I think his grammar is superior to mine; GlosonBlog is excellent He’s 11 years old; I can live with the [...]
Dragos Roua: 100 Ways to Improve Your Blog – is actually more than 100 useful bits – because if one adds the high-quality advice added by readers in comments – the count is well over 100. Mr. Roua’s blog, Dragos Roua – The choice of a personal path, uses the Thesis theme. Uses it in [...]