The Blog Studio has launched part 2 of their How to design a blog series Describing the purpose and setting goals which covers some of the following:
* let our target market know we exist
* show off our work
* position us as experts in our field
* give a sense of our character
* keep visitors coming back
* elicit inquiries
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The Blog Studio has started a new series on their blog, How to design a blog: part 1, an overview which highlights the areas the series is going to cover in the following steps:
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blogHelper has continued the instructional series How to Use WordPress for a Portfolio Site covering:
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After all the hype of being able to use WordPress as a CMS, blogHelper has posted 5 Reasons Not to Use WordPress As a CMS:
Im not saying WP cant work great as a more web site-ish CMS (Im devoting a whole series on Using WP as a CMS after all!), nor am I trying to be a wet blanket, but there are a few things you really should consider before taking the plunge.
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blogHelper has written a helpful post for WordPress bloggers on How to Make Your Blog PDA-Friendly including tools available and design of your blog
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I recently covered using WordPress to run a magazine or news website and bloghelper has gone a step further with a two part series (so far) on using WordPress as a CMS:
What is “Using WordPress as CMS”?: Generally, it means to use WordPress as a more conventional CMS, for less blog-ish content and presentation style. We’re looking at portfolio sites, news and magazine sites, article libraries, gallery sites, photologs, e-commerce sites, and many more. Thus, it means to push WP beyond what it was originally intended to do - publishing blogs - and into the realm of more robust and perhaps more complex CMSes, like Drupal and XOOPS, or into the realm of CMSes specialised in other fields, like Vivvo (for news and article sites) and WSN Gallery (for media galleries). Read More
How to Put Up a Custom Front Page in WordPress: By default, WordPress’ front page displays a reverse chronological list of your posts - with whatever extras you chose to add, e.g. Recent Comments, Flickr, etc. This is the normal blog index, and is normally the first thing you want to “get rid of” if you want to use WP as a more web site-ish CMS. For example, you might want your front page to display only an introduction and a sitemap, or just a simple Flash movie.
But at the same time, you might still want to have a normal blog index somewhere for the blog aspect of your web site. So, how do you get yourself a custom front page while still having the normal blog index alive and kicking somewhere else on site?. Read More
Max Limpag at The Cybercafe Experiments has published an interesting post on using WordPress to run a magazine or news website complete with instructions and a downloadable template that is relatively simple so that anyone can follow the instructions at How to use WordPress to run a magazine, news website
Continuing on from the earlier WordPress.com news comes the news that at long last WordPress.com bloggers can edit their blog themes with the arrival of custom CSS:
It is our greatest pleasure to give you what you want. Since the very first signup, WordPress.com bloggers have wanted to edit their themes. Today is your day.
With the release of the Sandbox theme, you have a clean slate with some of the best markup ever generated by WordPress. Add to that our new Custom CSS, our first paid upgrade, and you are on your way to creating a blog like no other.
The Sandbox theme’s skins can help you get started by providing flexible layout options; it comes with one-, two- and three-column themes with sidebars on either side. Or you can select No Stylesheet and do it all yourself. Additional skins will be provided as we develop them.
For those who need help with their CSS and those who like to help, we have created a forum topic for CSS customization. (Podz is very talented but he can’t be expected to debug your CSS for you.)
We expect there will be a growing supply of unique Sandbox stylesheets available in the wild, so be sure to show off in the forums when yours is ready!
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