I was just thinking that I love to use my blog to keep the useful tips on problogging that I've learnt. But on second thought, blogs are really not good for organising such information. Not when it is mixed with my other topics such as food, traffi

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This Dvorak Zine comic pokes fun at the ridiculous QWERTY layout that we all despise. The Dvorak layout is like 100 times better, and if any of you have ever tried it (doubtful) you know this is the case. The comic makes a great case and the post te

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Ever wish you could look at a web page and understand its underlying structure -- its CSS format, for example? You can. How about trying a quick change to your website(s), say a new background color, so you can immediately how it looks, without altering it for other visitors? You can do that too. All that and more is possible when you lea

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Finally I have released my BANS store and I think it will do well, since it does not look like those other Build a Niche Store look a like. Again, I like to look different and stand out, I do not want someone to go to my store and be like Oh, this is one of those Read More...

Earlier this week I wrote that I’d be taking my Thanksgiving vacation to spend a bit of time tweaking the new theme I had found for this blog and then hopefully releasing it before the end of the weekend.

If you are reading this, the new theme has gone live! I’m so excited about this change for A Mike Life and have spent so much time tryin

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An easy way to jazz up your blog and to catch your reader's attention is to insert a couple of graphics. The old saying that "a picture is worth a thousand words" holds true in the world of blogging too.

What helped make the concept sing for me was to think of each individual blog as a magazine layout. Articles that use pictures to help

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The celebration is in the air, and I wish to give a Personal License copy of WP Remix theme as a gift to someone… and that someone might be you.rnrnYou only need one theme to develop all your web projects!rnrnWP Remix a WordPress powered master theme, is completely customizable, quality coded & comes bundled with many layout options t

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The Thummer from Thumtronics, I came across this new piece of kit via a post on Dane Carlson’s Business Opportunities Weblog and I was quite impressed by it. The Thummer has lots of buttons in a new styled layout combined with abilities to manipulate the sounds it creates via it’s internal synthesizer.

Whether this will take off I’m not su

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Something rather interesting is happening with the layout of this post. I found a really cool CSS tool that allows you to customize the exact layout of text. With it you may specify the exact shape the text should follow using two lines on either side of the text. With the lines you can designate points that allow you to manipulate the line a

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Whateverlife has a zero (0) advertising budget. 100% of the income comes from Google Adsense. The layouts are built by programmers in India by contract.

I picked up a pretty neat MySpace layout based on The Matrix theme, even though, for the most part the layouts are pretty "foo foo".

Whateverlive attracts a few hundred thousand girls

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This is the next part in my series about WordPress themes. In this part I discuss what (free)tools you will need to create your page layouts. Next up, I go over what HTML and CSS is. There are some exercises for you to practise some very basic html and css coding. This was written with the total novice in mind.

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Ever thought that blogging is much like sex, the way you position things. Or the things you add.
Read on you may learn something
Positions
Missionary Position
Basic blog, nothing but words. Simple to use and simple to navigate.
Reality - Try it out for a week then realize you may as well try something a bit better.
Rear Entry
Draws you

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I’ve developed a free, widget ready (I think) theme for WordPress thats based of a site redesign I was working on for another site. I’ve decided not to use the design for that site and thought it appropriate to make it a cool WordPress 2.3.2 theme. The site is a two column layout with a footer area. The header automatically pulls the tags for

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Myspace page is meant for people of all ages. Unless, the page is made to look attractive, people seeking friends for networking and social life may not visit the page. Eventually, the aim of having the page for social networking will be defeated. The best thing to do with a myspace page is to have an attractive background of varied colors an

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Just face it. Your blog sucks and you know it. If any of these reasons below reflect you and your blog, then you might as well stop blogging. Oh, and if you do suck at blogging because of any of the reasons below, well, do something about it!

Your Blog Sucks When…
1. You have more ads, banners, and/or widgets than you have words that y

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