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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. learn more  Read More →

13 Places to Download Awesome Premium WordPress Themes

The search for WordPress themes is never-ending. Should you find a free theme? Or shell out the bucks for a premium theme? While exceptional content doesn’t need to be pretty to communicate, we can’t help wanting a little style with our substance. If you’re like us, you want an eye-catching WordPress layout that looks sharp, creative and has as much style as your writing. Something unique and beautifully coded to render across all browsers, and maybe add a little SEO juice too. The... learn 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. learn more  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! ... learn 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... learn 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... learn more

Lust for Logos — 15 Sites to Visit for Logo Inspiration

We all have days were we just can’t get our creative juices flowing.  What we really need is a good jump start that gets our imagination off again to put us on the right track.  When it comes to logos, something so simple as a type face or choice in color can make everything flow just right.  If you’re in need of inspiration, here are 15 sites that will get you going! learn more  Read More →

Software Review: Vertus Fluid Mask 3

I was a little hesitant when I signed up for this review. A masking program? I’ve seen quite a few masking programs that were hard to work with, with steep learning curves, bad tools, poor quality and more. I went in to it with pretty low expectations, to be honest, so I was blown away when I encountered the level of quality in Fluid Mask. Most of the time I create cutouts using photoshop layer masks and spend a lot of time zoomed in up close. It’s seemed to work pretty well — I thought... learn more

Five Ways to Harness Social Media Tools to Survive and Thrive During a Tough Economy

There are more and more people logging on to different social media outlets every day — just ask employers! At this point, the question is no longer should I use social media to prmote my business? It’s how to use social media to promote a business. More importantly, how do you use social media to thrive in a tough economy. A recent study showed that two-thirds of the survey participants actively use social media for work. Here are five ways to go from surviving to thriving using social media... learn more

Choosing a CMS

If you went to your Twitter or Facebook page right now and typed in the question: What is the best CMS; odds are high that you’ll get 10 different answers. Depending on what type of content management system you want, Wikipedia provides an extensive list. But, what is the best CMS?  To answer this, we’re going to look at three of the major ones (Joomla, Drupal and WordPress). learn more  Read More →

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