Articles by: Barbara Holbrook
4 Reasons You Should Add Photos or Illustrations to Every Blog Post
March 15, 2011 by Barbara Holbrook
Humor me for a moment and go dig out a copy of the White Pages — you remember, it’s that 10-pound behemoth gathering dust under the sink. Now, flip it open to any page and tell me the truth? Are you pulled into the content? Do you have any desire to continue reading or have you already closed it up and moved on to the next thing? Online or offline, people constantly come across content and make a split-second decision about whether to stay or go. Often, the decision is made before the content... [Continue reading this tutorial]
9 Stand-Out Real Estate Themes for WordPress
February 8, 2011 by Barbara Holbrook
A friend of mine just earned his real estate license and now he’s in the process of setting up office online. He’s already familiar with WordPress, so he came to me and asked if I had any advice on using WordPress for a real estate website. WordPress is really the hot ticket for building real estate site right now, which is both good and bad. On the one hand, the demand for real estate themes and plugins has encouraged innovation among developers and they’re coming up with some... [Continue reading this tutorial]
9 Email Designs for Content-Heavy Newsletters
December 14, 2010 by Barbara Holbrook
I’ve recently been working on a project to design a daily email newsletter that will be powered by MailChimp’s RSS to Email option. In some ways using RSS limits the design, however by automating the email campaign the site owner can focus on creating content rather than delivering content. The challenge for this email campaign is to create a template that can accommodate between 4 and 8 articles with photos and summaries, a spot for advertising, branding options and of course space for... [Continue reading this tutorial]
Browse Email Marketing Campaigns on Emailium for Inspiration and Ideas
December 13, 2010 by Barbara Holbrook
Emailium, an inspiration database for designers who create email marketing campaigns, opened their public beta today. The site is free to join for now, although it makes no mention of what the prices might be once the public beta is over. The company describes itself as “A filterable, sortable, categorizable, global database of email campaigns for competitive research, design inspiration and industry analysis.” In other words, Emailium is to email marketing what cssmania.com is to web... [Continue reading this tutorial]
Design is in the Details: Using CSS Selection Pseudo-Classes to Declare Your Team Spirit
September 16, 2010 by Barbara Holbrook
I’m hesitant to admit it, but I’m not a huge football fan. My boyfriend, however, loves “his” team — the USC Trojans. And if there’s one thing I’ve learned over the years, it’s that football fans will use any excuse to dress up or decorate with their team colors. Actually, real fans don’t even need a reason to show team spirit. So, in honor of football fans everywhere and to kick off the fall football season in America, I thought it would be fun to... [Continue reading this tutorial]
Beyond the Blog: Get on the WordPress Bandwagon
June 18, 2010 by Barbara Holbrook
WordPress, long known as one of the most popular blogging platforms, has turned into so much more. With the release of WordPress 3 “Thelonious”, the platform really steps into its own as a powerful content management system for writers, designers and everyone else to create or manage stunning, cutting-edge websites. Most people prefer WordPress because it is not only is it easy to use, it’s totally free. You can host your WordPress blog on your own servers or use free hosting with WordPress.com.... [Continue reading this tutorial]
