Picmeleo – A Free Online Image Editor
Another interesting find from my daily blog stroll via Google Reader. I found this post from SmashingApps and couldn’t resist highlighting it on my site – Picmeleo, a new free online image editor. Coincidentally I had an article planned on free online image editors, so now I can forgo that post. This is the coolest image editor I’ve seen and I’ll be definitely adding it to my site as a permanent... Read More
How to Make a Favicon
Have you ever noticed those little icons next to the address bar while visitng your favorite website? Well thats a favicon. This is mine. Wikipedia definition: A favicon (short for favorites icon), also known as a website icon, shortcut icon, url icon, or bookmark icon is a 16×16, 32×32 or 64×64 pixel square icon associated with a particular website or webpage. A web designer can create such an icon and install it into... Read More
AddThis Labs presents the Sharebar
So I’m trying something new. The AddThis Sharebar (located at the bottom of the page). If you have visited my site in the past then you know I’m not really into this kind of trendy website gimics like these. I like to add content and functionality that I feel will add value to my readers. I’m not interested in building a huge list of Facebook fans, a ton of Twitter followers or an unbelievable amount of RSS... Read More
Make a Blog vs. Make a Website
In my opinion, many web newbies get caught up in the whole blog vs. website debate while learning how to make a website. They are still confused as to which route they should go and I can’t blame them. With so much wrong information out on the web and arguments for both sides of the issue, which side is right? There is no right side. All blogs are websites. Even if your blog only has one photo and a link to an email... Read More
Free Wordpress Themes for Download
This has been a hectic year and yet I have loved every minute of it. The sole purpose of this blog was to give back all the knowledge I acquired through the years as a web designer, for free. With that in mind I decided to collect some of my favorite Wordpres themes and have them available for download directly from my site. As a designer, I come across hundreds of free quality themes and it’s only fair I pass them along... Read More
Freebie Premium Images + WP Plugin by Crestock
Yes! Another post about free stock images for your blog. This time it’s from Crestock. The Freebie Images Plugin gives you a micro format search interface inside your WordPress Admin where you can search for and add images to your blog post – free of charge. The images are perfectly sized for blogs – between 300px and 400px width. As you can see, the images have a Crestock’s watermark. It’s to be considered as... Read More
My Moo Business Cards Rock!
A few weeks ago, was invited to speak at a social media workshop, so I finally decided to put some effort into designing a business card – just in case someone asked. I have been asked this in the past and NEVER been prepared. This time I was determined to leave a lasting impression – and boy did I ever! I decided to order a fabulous set of Moo business cards. Trust me, the pic below only highlights about 60%... Read More
Make Your First Post on Blog Action Day
You’ve started your first website, installed Wordpress or Joomla, uploaded and tweaked your theme, researched your keywords and now a few weeks have passed and you still haven’t posted your first article. Why? Do you have writer’s block? Lost for words? Consider writing a post for Blog Action Day on October 15th, 2009. From the Blog Action Day website: Blog Action Day is an annual event that unites the world’s... Read More
Free High Quality Photos from PicApp
While visiting one of my favorite sites Lost Ball in High Weeds, I learned about a new site that has high quality photos to spruce up your website, called PicApp. I’m always interested in giving my readers access to valuable freebies for website building, so I immediately took a look and was pleasantly surprised. They have some of the best quality photos online, by far and they are all for FREE! No more “borrowing”... Read More
New Changes. New Theme. New Goals.
With under just a few months of starting my blog, I decided to update the theme a bit. I liked the design I created and the person I contracted to code it for Wordpress did an awesome job. However in hindsight I realized that I needed just a little bit more flexibility. The old design used the blog as the main focus, which was a good idea at first, but after reviewing the stats and using my own intuition, I decided to make... Read More
