Archives for 2012

Are Original Images As Important As Original Content?

So many essential factors affect your blog’s orientation. However, there is a recurring point of consideration for every aspect – Originality. It is an accepted fact that you have to work to create original content. Your posts have to stand out as your authentic opinion on your niche’s important topics. However, images are just as […]

Balance, Another Responsive Child Skin From StudioPress

Are you looking for a modern theme that is professional and will make your content look good on any screen size? If you so, you need to check out the new premium WordPress theme by StudioPress. Actually, the new theme by Studiopress, is a child skin for the Genesis Framework and that skin is called […]

Top 3 Reasons To Add A Blog To Your Website in 2012

There are a myriad of benefits to blog writing for your business as well as some great SEO advantages. Below are the three reasons I find most compelling. #1. Custom platform to interact with your customers and site visitors- Let’s face it word of mouth from friends and family is about the best sales pitch […]

5 New Portfolio Themes from ThemeForest

When it comes to choosing a look for your site, it takes time. I could spend hours just on one site looking through all the great themes they had to offer. Believe me, there are a lot of theme sites out there and some of my favorite sites are StudioPress, Thesis, and Elegant themes, but […]

10 of the Best Photoshop Tutorials Created in January

It’s the start of a new month, so its time once again for me to share list my favorite Photoshop tutorials created in the last month. This was a great month for tutorials, if you like photo manipulations. The list that I gathered is mostly intermediate level tutorials but, if you are comfortable with Photoshop’s […]

Avenger by ThesisAwesome

Are you looking for a professional theme that works off of Thesis? If so, I have the perfect theme for you. It looks good, its fully features, and designed to make your author’s profiles look good. Earlier this morning, ThesisAwesome released their latest theme for Thesis. That theme is Avenger. Its full of great features […]

4 Rusty and Painted Metal Textures

It time for the weekly design resource. This week I have another set of textures. This set of textures I took earlier this week when taking some time off and did some shopping in Historic Downtown McKinney with the wife. This set of textures is tree rusty metal textures taking from various buildings and structures […]

Author hReviews Makes it Easy to Add Google Rich Snippets for Reviews

Do you like to do reviews about products and services on your blog. Do you companies offer products and services for you to review? If so, I have a plugin for your WordPress blog that will only help you out with your reviews. Author hReview WordPress Plugin The plugin that will help you build your […]

Weekly Mash Up #28: Topics in Blogging Design, Development, Freelance, and Inspiration

It’s the start of a new week, so its time to share this week’s Weekly Mash Up. Last week was a great a week. I actually had the time to read a lot of great articles in the world of new media. Believe me, there were so many great articles last week, that I had […]

Tools to Make Your Link Building Life Better

We all know that high-quality inbound links are an essential ingredient in an SEO campaign.  We also all know that it can be extremely time consuming, and sometimes frustrating, looking around the web for sites to approach for links.  I’m going to show you one technique for quickly putting together a list of sites that […]

Get 44+ StudioPress Themes for $270.00

Earlier today I received an email from StudioPress that they are raising the price of their Pro Pack All Theme Package on Tuesday, January 31, 2012. Currently you can get all 44 StudioPress Child Themes plus every theme they make in the future for $299.95, but after the 31st it will go up. StudioPress is […]

5 Popular Premium Themes from StudioPress

Studiopress is one of the more popular premium WordPress theme companies out there. They offer a framework (also know as a parent theme) that was designed to empower websites owners with a secure and search-engine optimized foundation to build their WordPress website on.  They also offer a large collection of professional and personal child themes […]