Create an Online Magazine With WordPress

Many of us have dreamed of writing for a magazine or even being a magazine editor. However, now with WordPress you can be the writer, editor and owner of your very own magazine. With a few steps you can have the magazine designed, laid out and have writers who are writing articles for your own online publication. Below I’m going to go through the steps of starting your own Magazine with WordPress.

The first thing you’ll have to do is find the right them. Read more

10 Places to Download Awesome WordPress Themes

So you’ve got Wordpress installed on your server and you’re ready to share your thoughts with the web world.  Exceptional content doesn’t need to be pretty to communicate but we can’t help that we’re visual creatures. If you want to catch peoples’ eyes and really market yourself you want your blog to look as sharp and creative as your writing is. Besides, who wouldn’t want to wrap all their hard work and thoughts in a beautifully coded and graphical package for visitors to enjoy?

There are some great free Wordpress layouts available, many at wordpress.org.  Lots of fantastic paid ones as well.  Don’t be afraid to pay for something exceptional that suits your needs.  Let’s visit 10 amazing places you can go to get awesome wordpress themes. Read more

5 Tips for Making Your WordPress Blog SEO Friendly

Everyone’s vying for that number one spot on search results. Over the last couple years, it’s been Google who has stood head and shoulders over the rest, although the release of Microsoft’s new search engine, Bing, has raised eyebrows. So what does this mean for WordPress users?

Well it means that if you want your WordPress blog to be found, you better take advantage of search. I’ve listed below 5 tips for making your WordPress blog SEO friendly. Read more

10 Quick & Dirty Tricks for Easy Custom Web Backgrounds

Oh, the trials and tribulations of making your own repeating background.  We’ve all been there, tweaking our pixels and trying to make the repeats fit together just right.

Here are the solutions for our background woes!  Take a look at these Web sites that offer you the ability to quickly make your own.  Or you can use one of the seamless repeating images available on the other sites, all polished and ready for your web needs.  You may find some of these backgrounds to be especially inspiring!  I know I have. 

So let’s get started  with 10 Quick & Dirty Tricks for Easy Custom Web Backgrounds. Read more

Photoshop Tutorial: Getting that great X-PRO LOMO look

Let me explain the title real quick, in case any readers aren’t in the know yet. LOMO is a russian optics company that makes cameras. They use the word Lomography to mean a wide-angle, shoot-from-the-hip, distorted colors, plastic lenses, expired film kind of photo asthetic.

Another thing a lot of Lomographers like to do is x-pro, or cross processing. This is the act of developing one kind of film in the chemicals meant to develop another kind of fim. For a lot of photographers, this means shooting onto slide film and bribing a friend who works at a developing lab to develop it as normal film. Read more

10 Social Media Plugins for your WordPress Blog

With the increase in bloggers using WordPress over the last couple years combined with the increase in the use of social media, one of the most frequent questions blog owners have is how to bring the two together.

You’ve heard the stories about bloggers that use twitter, facebook, stumbeupon or digg to generate daily traffic in the thousands or tens of thousands. And now you want to know… “How do I get me some of that social media love?”

Here are 10 of the best social media plugins for WordPress. Read more

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