Category: Design
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WordCamp San Francisco 2013 Liveblog: Carrie Dils
This weekend, I’m watching the livestream of WordCamp San Francisco and liveblogging about some of the best sessions. I’ve already blogged about the talks from Natalie Maclees, Tracy Levesque, and Grant Landram. To round out my posts from the weekend, I wanted to share with you Texas-based Carrie Dils‘ inspiring and entertaining talk entitled “Collaboration Not…
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WordCamp San Francisco 2013 Liveblog: Grant Landram
This weekend, I’m virtually attending WordCamp San Francisco. Which means, I am watching the wonderful livestream from my chaotic, toddler-infused living room. I’ve already blogged about yesterday’s talks from Natalie Maclees and Tracy Levesque, and today I hope to write up a couple more. I was really interested to hear Seattle-based Grant Landram’s talk entitled…
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7 inspiring ideas for creating your own blog images
Sure, there are many sites to find stock images online. These vary from free (which are generally lower-quality) to paid stock images (generally higher quality). These sites are perfect for quickly sourcing images for your website and blog, but sometimes you might not be able to find the exact thing you have in mind, or…
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Three Reasons to Resize Images Before Using Them on Your Blog
Resizing images is one of the most overlooked aspects of maintaining a website or blog. Of course, images are very important to use on your website. They draw the attention of readers, help to illustrate points, and add flourish and colour to your writing. But you don’t want your images to work against you! If…
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Why you should care about responsive web design
Sure, web design and development might be a little over your head. Maybe you forked out for a designer to build your site, maybe you bought a premium theme or use a free one. Maybe you’ve heard this buzzword “responsive design” being bandied about here and there. But what has it got to do with…
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Using Inspect Element or Firebug to peek behind the scenes of your WordPress website
Have you ever been frustrated by the way something appears on your website? Perhaps you thought some text was going to be green, but it actually looks red. Or perhaps you formatted text to be aligned to the left, but it’s actually centred. Maybe an image has an ugly-coloured border around it that you didn’t…