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Here’s one sample copied and pasted, in one click, from HTML-Ipsum, a service of Design O’Blog – home and Design O’Blog (blog)

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And, as noted above, spotted on Smashing Magazine.

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 be entirely reliable.

BloggingTips is – as we’ve said earlier – worth reading regularly on its own terms. But look carefully at the design. To my eye, the folks at BlogDesignStudio did several things that should have been impossible to do in the same space:

• lots of content and subdivision by category, and other taxonomies of content type;
• usable navigation
• Without feeling cramped

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: WooFunction Free Icon Set goes Live

Daily Edition: Re-Inventing a WooThemes Classic

226 Brilliant Freelance & Work Related Icons Available Now

Free Social Media Icons & 275 New Premium App Icons

How to Spot Quality within Web Design: Examples & Tips

Danny Outlaw Talks Personal Branding & Promotion: Tips on How to Get Yourself Out There

Free Theme: Magazeen. Style & Functionality in one Theme, now on Smashing Magazine

How-To: Taking WordPress One Step Further

Free Theme: Color Paper WordPress Theme now on Smashing Magazine

WeFunction via Noupe.

You can find all of Noupe’s directly Word-Press related posts by using the preceding link, which sorts by category. But then you’d miss other things both cool and  helpful, such as

7 Rules for Mixing Multiple Fonts in Good Web Design

Outstanding Website Background Guide: 60+ Impressive Resources

48 Mind-Blowing Ideas and Designs

Cory Doctorow's wedding/decoder ring - via Noupe.com and MentalFloss.com

40+ Extremely Beautiful Icon Sets Hand-picked from deviantART

The following are focused on WordPress, and all outstanding and not to be missed:

60+ Unusual WP Blog Designs

10 WordPress ‘HOW-TO’ to Give Your Blog the Quality it Deserves

The Comprehensive Guide for a Powerful CMS using WordPress (Part 1 of 4)

25 Unique uses of WordPress as CMS (Part 2 of 4)

40 Exceptional “CMS Enabling” WordPress Plugins (which is the post discussed in the beginning of this post – but we’ll repeat it here, since it’s actually the third of the fourt-part series)

The fourth part of the series, we think, has not yet been published. While we’re checking up on that, you all should check out 13 Great WordPress Speed Tips & Tricks for MAX Performance. Again, Noupe understates and over-delivers. There’s more than thirteen if you count carefully, and they’re not just about “better, faster” performance – the same advice will not only speed things up – but also reduce the likelihood of big problems – database crashes, collisions with icebergs or meteors, and global warming. (We’re not sure about the last one).

1. “CMS” in this context means “content management system;” idiomatically in the World of WordPress it means, I think, extends WordPress  functionality substantially beyond the normal  “reverse chronological journal”which is the core of “blogging.”

• 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 fact that an 11-year-old could do all of the things above.

But what’s unfair – and I think that the blogging community has to address this – he’s trained his cat to maintain the blog. No worryng about cron jobs, spell-check – I think the cat should get its own blog.

GlosonBlog.com maintenance cat

My cats pretend to “help” with my blogs – by entering random key board sequences if I step away from my desk and they’re in the mood. I summoned all my courage, confronted them – and they responded that, given enough time (i.e.infinite) on the keyboard, they’d produce the best blog post possible.

People have trouble believing upsetting news which disturbs their world view. I’ve repeatedly pointed out that the work of this canine blogger looks suspiciously like the work of this particularly well-known (and deservedly admired) and brilliant blogger/blog theorist. We tried to get the  dog to sing, to rat out the intellectual property rights thief who’s built a career on his own dog’s back.

It’s just like the 1920′s again, when Mickey Mouse accepted Walt Disney’s  promises that Mickey didn’t need a lawer to review their contract. Next thing he knows, he’s doing his own stunts and fighting off hippopotami in tutus.

Mr.  Roua’s blog, Dragos Roua – The choice of a personal path, uses the Thesis theme. Uses it in an oustanding way, and worth the visit if only for that reason.

Let me take this opportunity to point out what I think is a recurring ethical dilemma  in blogging. Maybe it’s just because I need more coffee.

Mr. Roua’s blog, and this blog here – WordPressBlue – are both members of, and more importantly in this case, affiliates of Thesis.

He wrote the great post I”m sending you to (or trying to). So when I reference the Thesis theme in this post – whose affiliate code should I use? He’s created all the value added – I just noticed it and posted about it.

For the purposes of this post, anyway (and I think the fresh pot of coffee is probably ready) – I’ve used his afffiliate code.Here’s a sample about what’s excellent in this post, Everything he has to say about production and promotion makes an awful lot of sense to me. One gem:

2. Make A Mindmap Of Your Blog

Keep a bird-eye of your blog. Putting your blog into a mind-map, with posts, categories, promotion and income sources proved to be an enlightening exercise for me. Not only it offered a totally different image of my blog but gave me a lot of ideas for overall improving.

To this next idea I’ll add – having been an editor, an author, a copy editor, and ghostwriter – it’s very hard to proof and edit one’s own work.

27. Read Your Own Blog

Too often ignored. You must be your first reader. Whenever I have some free time I read some of my older posts. There’s nothing narcissistic in it, on the contrary, most of the time I dislike what I wrote, and think I could have done it so much better.

It’s not “just another WordPress weblog” (the default tagline which comes with a new WordPress installation, along with the “Hello World” default post.

41. Your Blog Header Is Your Identity

Pay attention to your blog header, that’s where the blog title is usually placed. People will remember your blog by visually recreating that zone. If it’s too crowded it will be hard to memorize. I Always recommend to keep your header as clean as possible, in order to be easily remembered.

Here’s one comment that jumped out at me as very helpful. Gloson, apparently a regular reader, posted as follows:

[Gloson refers to his own post],  7 More Things to Do to Improve Your Blog.But I think your list is far more comprehensive than mine. LOL

And since you usually reply to almost every comment on your blog, one way you could improve it is installing this “Subscribe to comments” plugin. Hopefully it will improve interactiveness.

Certainly my experience is that it’s easy to forget that you’ve entered a comment on a post – and by extension joined conversation. If I understand correctly, this post allows the reader/commenter to return to her/his other work – and be “paged,” as it were, when the conversation heats up again.

Suffice it to say that I only knew one of the six – and they all rock. Go see for yourself – and stop Randa’s on the way there or back.

A flying squirrrel from the “Mammals” category; a “Phaeton Butterfly” from the “insects” Category,  and a beautiful, wide-ranging section on graphic ornament

Some of those examples, and a few more:

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While you’re there, don’t miss Randa’s portfolio.