I've been evaluating a couple of the CMS and template based sytems lately. The new trend seams to be we are SEO friendly, or our product has been optimized for the search engines. After investigation, they usually are talking about site-wide SEO. This is not as good as Per page seo of course. WordPress comes out of the box wit

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No, not the websites that have to do with renting products or services, like wiferental.com. The rental websites I'm discussing are the ones where you actually rent a website, or a website for rent. This article discusses various aspects of a rental website like hosting, addresses, web page design, domains and seo. There sure

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This is the third part in the series about how to create a WordPress theme. In the last part I showed how to convert your idea into a regular html page. In this part I show you how to add the WordPress functions that are needed to make it compatible with WordPress. During the course of the tutorial I also discuss how to make it

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gtemplates.org is offering free photoshop .psd templates for the more or less experienced. Depending on what you are searching for, I'm sure you will find some designs that fit you. And EVERYTHING you find on the www.gtemplates.org site is FREE! I'd say that's pretty cool...

There are: serious templates, funny templates, innovative, abs

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One of the reasons WordPress is the most popular blogging platform is its theme system. WordPress allows its users with almost unlimited design options when modifying or designing themes. This is a collection of 40 resources that every theme designer can appreciate.

Starting Points:

Blank Themes - If you’re creating your own WordPress t

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This is the first part in the new series on how to create a wordpress theme from scratch. In this part I discuss why you should consider having a unique theme instead of picking one of the thousands of free themes available.

Next we look at the different types of layout you can use. There are many ways of designing the look

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If you've been putting off creating a distinctive avatar for your blog, wait no more. This free online application will let you create one in a snap.

This is a great tool if you don't have a lot of graphics skills -- or even if you do. It's fun to play with the various features and the only restriction is that you can only manipulate .

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Have you ever thought about how your blog's avatar stacks up against those of other blogs?

If you haven't put much thought into your avatar's design, you're probably in the majority. But what if you're losing some readers because your avatar isn't drawing them in? Check out our Icon Hall of Fame to be inspired by some

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Traditional Rss Icons are commonly seen on every blog nowadays and as time goes by it is essential now for blogger's to offer both Rss Feed and Rss Emails on their blog. You need fresh ideas on how you can create unique buttons for both your Feed a

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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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Every design is unique and should be your own in some way. However, Michael Martin of Problogdesign.com offers five good tips on how to improve your blog.

He recently ran an offer to review your blog and provide 5 tips on how to improve it. Apparently he is still working on them as lots of people took him up on his offer. These 5 tips a

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Ever wonder why your avatar shows up when you comment on some blogs but not others? If it doesn't show up, you probably need a Gravatar.

What's a Gravatar? It's a free globally recognized avatar that appears beside your name when you comment on Gravatar-enabled blo

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Need an image to use on your website? How do you make sure you can edit and use images found on Flickr on your blog or website and include the proper attributes? Here are 2 ways to search and find Creative Commons images on Flickr. Easily edit, cut and paste into your blog using your WYSIWYG editor, and include the proper attributes to the ph

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As bloggers we often spend insane amounts of time trying to stuff absurd amounts of content on our blogs. This often makes them look busy, bloated, fat, and ungainly. What would happen if we were to reverse that trend and start worrying more about

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This is a post just to keep everyone up to speed on what is happening around EBD... I discuss some recent events on my blog, some community issues that I would like your feedback on, and of course, some breaking news that needs your help! If you are interested in finding out more, read this post and get some great information and a chance to

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2007 is almost over. Time to start thinking about the future. If you've been designing web sites for more than five years or so, the tools and processes your are using today are completely different than the the ones you used when you started. Gone are the days of and tags, CSS and Javascript finally started working, and my nose goes up ex

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Sorry everyone that already posted your opinions on my site redesign I submitted a few days ago. Well if you read my recent posts, you would know that Photoshop mystically compressed all my layers into one! Yay! So basically I had to start redoing the entire design from scratch

As I was redesigning I made a few changes that I want everyone

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Why is this such a great logo? I know that sometimes when we see a logo we say, why did it never occurred to me before?
Many times, we forget that simplicity is the main thing in a design. This will become a corporate image that might be printed into T-Shirts, caps, banners, etc.