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How-To-Blog looks like it’s well on its way to become an excellent blogging resource; they’ve also got a Thesis Theme installation that’s very easy on the eyes.

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We neglected to mention Bing Web Design, which itself is very well-designed, and where Mr. Langford appears to be gainfully employed with co-conspirators Sarah Thibodeaux and Wayne Bunner. Their current portfolio is light, I think, on live client links, but I suspect that will change over time. Look at what they’ve designed for themselves, however, and their design/code/business chops are apparent.

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In a section called  “The Master’s Sites:”

36. Pearsonified
37. Rick Beckman
38. Kristarella
39. Girlie Geek
40. Rae Hoffman

But I’d add the lovely and infinitely-talented Lisa Firke.Under the heading, “Major Tutorials:”

11. Add and Style a Tabbed Widget
12. Thesis Full Width Headers
13. Thesis Nav Menus
14. Thesis Footers 101
15. Adding Date Based Triggers to your Posts
16. How to add Adsense Section Targeting
17. Add Custom Banner Image to Header
18. Add Custom JS Rotator to Multimedia Box
19. Add Padding Between UL/OL Lists
20. Add Twitter “Follow Me” Widget
21. Add Different Widgets to Different Pages
22. Creating Custom Categories
23. Customize the 404 Page
24. Dynamic Image Header with Transparent Logo
25. Multiple Custom Page Templates
26. Creating New Widget Areas
27. 3 Column Widget Ready Footer
28. Widgetizing Thesis Multimedia Box
29. How to add Another Menu
30. Feature Box: Showing Off Your Best Articles
31. Integrating Facebook Connect

And, of course, there’s more – in the post 100 resources for Thesis Theme users

- On Mattflies

Thanks to HowToMakeMyBlog for the link.

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But also – check out this excellent graphic:

Blogussion - using custom graphics to grab readers

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 would turn me off, a snarky forum about avarice and rationalizing disparities in wealth. Which tells you more about my biases than his Alex’s work. Which is outstanding.

Here’s Asnio’s Free Stuff page, which also includes a lot of useful material about Thesis Theme customization.

Alex is also the author of the Blogussion post 18 Resources to Help you Write Better Blog Titles, which I should probably read, and I think he’s responsible for some? all? of Blogussion’s images which open their posts. I don’t think they’re keyed to categories, but I think they’re mostly original work. Here are a few that I like; notice that the Twitter thumbnail¹   which works on its own as an image of the bird’s face, doesn’t really prepare you for the full-sized illustration – partly because the thumbnail has a nearly 45-degree orientation, but the full image – and the standing bird, are more or less at right angles to the frame.

Twitter "thumb"

My thought was that this made for a less expected – and therefore more satisfying visual payoff for the reader who follows the excerpt to the complete post.

Here’s the image accompanying the complete post:

a less predictable visual delivery for the readers who follow the excerpt link to the full article.

This article, by the way, is by Matt Cheuvront, who can also be found at Life Without Pants.

My favorite image on Blogussion, however, is this:

The domino theory meets Dr. Who?

This illustrates Alex’s post How to Properly Prepare a Guest Post in 5 Simple Steps. I’m not sure what this means, except that I think the implication is that a single guest post can bring down an entire blog. I’m hoping to get permission to use it on Popular Logistics as a way of illustrating network failures, particularly communications networks.

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1. Twitter “thumb” – full size, 66 x 66 pixels; link is to page on which except appears, five rows down, left column. As of this writing, the excerpt is on the front page of Blogussion; I’ll have to update links later in order to make this point.

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.

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