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At Last, a Simple Guide to Mastering Twitter from the fine folks at Blogussion. But also – check out this excellent graphic: That article – about their redesign is by Alex, who is also the proprietor of Asnio – a blog about entrepreneurship. A blog about entrepreneurship by a teenager – I anticipated that it [...]
David Lambert, as far as I can figure is one serious software and systems designer, recently wrote Callouts: I need a WordPress plugin on his blog Component Oriented. Then he went out and wrote the plugin. It’s called “Insert Callout,” and the preceding link is to its page on the WordPress Plugin Repository. Here’s Lambert [...]
Christian Watson, of Smiley Cat Web Design, which has a subsidiary, Elements of Design (“an alternative web desig showcase”). Check out this beautiful gallery of pull-quotes – some of which I think I’d characterize as “call-outs,” which, in my mental taxonomy, are properly a subset of pull-quotes. Here’s one that I liked a lot, Gallery [...]
A quick trip to Blogussion | Blogging Discussion, Tips & Tricks willl yield a bunch1 of posts well worth reading, including: Blog Promotion: 169 New Ways to Build Traffic like a Ninja 4 Easy Ways To Increase Readership On Your Blog 5 Easy Blog Improvements in under 5 Minutes 100+ Lists To Help You Become [...]
The Font Burner Control Panel plugin seems to be the creation of one Adrian Hanft, a/k/a Adrian3, but more properly, Adrian E. Hanft, III (from “About” page). This terrific plugin lets you: Change heading fonts in WordPress (h1 through h4); choose from over one thousand (1,000) and growing non-commercial fonts; requires no code writing Plus [...]
Learning the World is a blog by Martin Kliehm, a web developer in Germany who also specializes in accessibility. In “Accessible Drop-Down Menus,” Kliehm lucidly explains what’s problematic about them, and just as clearly lays out a number of means by which the barriers can be lowered, if not eliminated. Other posts worth knowing about: [...]
From Thomas Hofter of Lunatic Studios: some interesting WordPress plugins, two WordPress themes, and some brilliant macro photography: Possibly related posts: (automatically generated) Related posts on lunatic studios WP Robot 1.2 – Better Than Ever wp robot – is it the ultimate autoblog plug-in? blogging tips – 5 ways to improve your adsense earnings Evernote [...]
Dan Masters – a web designer in Austin, has a very persuasive review of Zoundry, an off-line blogging client. That is, one composes a post irrespective of having an internet connection. I’d been looking for an off-line client, and Masters’ review persuaded me to try it out. Masters’ piece actually predates a new version called [...]