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.

Membership Sites: Can You Make Money from Them? is actually about two things:

Using WordPress as a membership site – with its native capabilities, and with some plugins. The answer – depending on the content and/or the audience – yes!.

But we’d like to add that using WordPress as a membership site also lends itself to other non-business functions: group collaboration and discussion, political campaign planning, all sorts of business and NGO collaboration, and, we think, just another example – as a tool for coordinating litigation.

Back to the question of blogging with WordPress to make money – check out Seth’s 30 Real Ways to Make Money Blogging.

Also – about Blogussion -

• The site is one of the nicest Thesis Theme customizations around;
• The customizations are credited to Kolakube
• The  icons are credited to Function

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1. By which we mean there’s no bio on the site for us to link to