Creating visually attractive introduction images is a good step towards a successful blog post. In this post, we take a look at a few examples of introduction images, and a quick Photoshop tutorial on creating one.
Read full article →Beautiful Twitter birds, icons, buttons and vectors
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Creative NERDS has a roundup of beautiful Twitter graphics – birds, icons, vectors and such – from around the web.
WordPress plugin: DiggBar Remover
DiggBar Remover is a WordPress plugin that removes DiggBar from your blog’s posts, and redirects visitors to the actual post. It uses minimal resources and requires no configuration.
Read full article →Blog SEO 101: our weekly SEO tips series
The introductory post for Blogging SEO 101, a weekly series of SEO tips, techniques and code for good SEO practices.
Read full article →Cufon – an alternative to sIFR
Cufón seems to be a new, worthy alternative to sIFR. The last time I tried sIFR, I gave up because of the work involved. In stark contrast, Cufón was a snap to set up on this blog (in post titles, sidebar titles etc.). Particular points of interest are the little work required (including a few JS files and writing JS code to instruct which elements to be replaced), speed and size. I’ll soon have a tutorial on setting up Cufón quikcly.
Organize and format CSS with Styleneat
Styleneat is a very useful tool to organize your CSS stylesheets. It has a beautiful interface to begin with, and sorts CSS in a clean, precise manner. It is a smart tool in that when you choose to organize CSS multi-line, it uses multiple lines only for rules that have more than one property. CSS is also nested automatically for clarity.
How to show social media buttons only on selected posts
A tutorial on using WordPress’ custom fields to show social media links/badges only on posts you want.
Read full article →Tweetmeme: Digg-like site for tweeted links
Tweetmeme is a Digg-like site for links – the only difference being that votes are retweets of the link. More retweets, more popular your link. Links typically reach front page at around 80 retweets.
