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Pro Blog Design
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Advice for blog owners and designers on making a more attractive, usable and ultimately profitable blog.
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Automatic Amazon s3 Backups on Ubuntu / Debian
VPS (Virtual Private Server) hosting is the next level up from shared hosting. You get a lot more server usage for each of your dollars, but the catch is that you lose all of the easiness of shared hosting. One of the most important things you need to set up with your VPS is automatic backups. If your VPS crashes and your data is lost, your entire blogging history will be wiped out in an instant if you don’t have backups at the ready.
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40 Extraordinary Photoshop Text Effects
 The trouble with Photoshop Tutorials is that there are a lot of them out there, but you only want the very best, most creative ones.In this post, we've collected 40 of the very best and most extravagant tutorials for working with type. After working through a few of the most appealing looking ones to you, you should have more than a few ideas for creating your own, unique effects!
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Get More From Your Site’s Visual Acreage
 One of the most important, and sometimes most difficult, parts of web design is deciding what to do with the space that is given you.Usually, you have around 960 pixels in width and an indefinite height to work with, and it often feels like too much or too little. It's very valuable when used correctly, but when used incorrectly it can destroy a website's potential.There are similarities in real estate. Each piece of property has a different value, some high and some low. Using a beautiful piece of property in the wrong way can diminish its value. By comparing page area in a website to real estate, we can learn a few principles that help us utilize the "property" of a web page to the maximum advantage.
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7 Essential Elements of Blog Design
 The blogosphere continues to expand almost on a daily basis, and as a web designer we often inform clients of the numerous benefits of attaching a blog to their site. It is always a great way to continuously update your readers as to what new developments are being made in your business and what to look for as they stick with you on this journey.This in turn, keeps your site well trafficked by the online masses as new content is added on a regular basis. And while there are a plethora of points and elements that are vital when designing a blog, some take precedence over the others.
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40 Creative Navigation Menus
 One of the first things to do when planning out a new website is to work out all of the content that will be in the site. You then divide that up into sections and then into various levels of navigation.The result is a boring list of links.That list of links is one of the most important part of your website though, it goes without saying that every visitor to the site will be using them to get around.In this post we've pulled together some of the best designed navigation bars (both horizontal and vertical) to help give you ideas to enhance your own.
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Fundamentals of A/B and Multivariate Testing
 Many companies worry so much about how much traffic they can drive to their website. The real focus should be how can you convert more website visitors? Effective website testing can help increase site performance, usability and conversions.By using A/B and multivariate testing techniques, you can experiment with different design elements to find a winning combination.Lets take a look at the fundamentals of both A/B and multivariate testing.
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50 jQuery Tools for Awesome Websites
 By now, everyone has heard of jQuery. It's a framework that makes JavaScript development much easier, and has become massively popular for adding JavaScript functionality to websites.In this post, we've picked out 50 of the best scripts we know of and talked about why they rock. They can help in just about any aspect of a website, so enjoy!
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Educating Web Designers on Google Analytics
 Most web designers have heard of Google Analytics, but many of them have not taken the time to understand just how valuable the data can be. There is a wealth of knowledge you can gain about your web traffic that can help improve your site design and marketing efforts.For web designers it is important to understand how visitors are interacting with your site. What pages are visitors landing on? What pages are visitors exiting on? How long are visitors staying on site? Where are visitors leaving in the conversion funnel? All of these questions are crucial for turning a pretty website, into a pretty website that converts!
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How to Install Wordpress on your PC
Wordpress is arguably the most popular and the best blogging platform out there. You might have installed Wordpress on your site, but you might be scared to experiment with Wordpress worrying that you could break your site and Wordpress.Experimenting is one of the best way to learn new things and if you break your site, you probably might not want your visitors to see the fault as it might leave a bad impression. So, it is necessary to have the ability to learn WordPress and try new themes, plugins and other items without putting it online where people can see.So, the best solution is to install WordPress locally on your computer. It will save you quite a bit of time since you can just put your files inside your WordPress folder without having to upload it to FTP. You can do anything you want with WordPress without a worry which surrounds you when you put it online. The possibilities are endless. Here is a step-by-step instruction on how to install WordPress in localhost using XAMPP. I hope it will become a great use to you.
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Design Review: Free Pixels
In this review, we’re going to work through a website (FreePixels.com) as a case study, looking at its design and seeing what we can learn from it and what we could improve on. So to start off, let’s take a look at Free Pixels. They offer almost 4000 extremely high quality images, for free. All you have to do is leave the small watermark in the corner, or create your own link back. That makes it a very handy site for bloggers! Now load up the site in a new tab, and let’s start our case study!
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