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App-crazy, Widget-mad and Pluginsanity; What?s it all Mean?
2007-12-04 00:29:00 When I first started building websites and blogs I toured a few content management systems that were all but ridiculous to figure out. Though, at the time there were a few out there that were simplified for the non-designer or non-developer, me being me, I needed something more robust and endlessly flexible. Joomla and Drupal ... More About: Technology , Widget , Innovation , Crazy
Choosing the Right Elements for Your Website or Blog
2007-12-01 01:11:00 You ever see a website or blog that looks so fabulous, you think, that’s what I need for a kick-arse web presence? You know those sites with a billion cool looking social bookmark plugins & apps, mini Flash animations, crazy animated navigation bars, video, audio, really cool dynamic picture galleries, very shiny design, funky tag ... More About: Tools , Website , Elements , Word , Press
How to Find Inspiration for Your Blog
2007-11-28 22:21:00 Sometimes it’s hard to get motivated to write a post for you blog. Sometimes it’s hard to find what to write about. Writing every day, or every other day for a blog is time consuming and mentally exhausting. You won’t always know what to post next. The best advice I can give you is what ... More About: Inspiration , Blogging , Blog , Find
Redesign Projects Over the Thanksgiving Break
2007-11-26 08:07:00 Holiday breaks are a great time for getting personal projects done. I decided to redesign two of my personal sites. One is Film Tops, a film blog and the other is Kemio.net, my personal website that I converted into a blog for easier updating and maintenance. Both Kemio.net and Film Tops are hosted on ... More About: Design , Projects , Thanksgiving , Word , Press
The Value of ?Free? on the Web
2007-11-21 01:32:00 Starting a business, I read a lot on marketing, advertising, promotions online and offline and a common method of generating more leads was giving something away. Free tutorials, free whitepapers, free samples of my services, etc. It’s uneasy to give away my time and sweat, but as a business owner, perhaps it’s part of the ...
?Tis the Season for Family, Friends and Holiday Blogs, Forums and Networks
2007-11-16 22:48:00 ‘Tis the Season for all the family mania. Who’s doing what, when, where and how. Thanksgiving is fast approaching and Christmas will be just around the corner, then New Year’s. Many of you are in the midst of planning where you’ll be spending the Holiday s and with whom and for how long. Phone calls, email ... More About: Family , Technology , Social Networking , Friends
Understanding Publicity, Part 3: HOW to Pray for Space and Time
2007-11-16 18:52:00 Our guest blogger Murry Shohat is back with the final installment in the series, Understanding Publicity . Check out Murry?s bio page here at The Poles Apart Design Blog…after reading this post. Websites are dynamic, living things. They breathe (or they should). A static website that rarely changes or fails to regularly add content is like a ... More About: Space , Time , Part , Part 3
Good Web Writing is All in the Tone and Context
2007-11-14 08:35:00 It’s a difficult thing to write and non-writers take it for granted that readers don’t want to read bad writing. Bad writing is like bad singing. If you’ve seen the auditions for American Idol, you get my meaning. Anyway, bad writing is especially offensive on the web because the web is meant for readers irregardless ... More About: Writing , Blogging , Good , Context , Tone
Wow Them With a Hot Header
2007-11-12 21:42:00 One of the many great things about Word Press (and PHP in general) is that your header is separate from the rest of your design & layout so it’s easy enough to create a distinct blog or blog-powered website design by just designing or redesigning the header alone. The header is the first thing you see ... More About: Design , Header
Web 3.0 is Web 2.0 with Better Beta and More Accountability
2007-11-09 06:17:00 Wikipedia.org defines Web 2.0 as “a perceived second generation of web-based communities and hosted services ? such as social-networking sites, wikis and folksonomies ? which aim to facilitate creativity, collaboration and sharing between users.” Gibberish? Yes. Forget the jargon. Web 2.0 is is simply a new wave of using the Internet for users to get ... More About: Technology , Writing , Beta , Innovation , Accountability
Web 3.0 is Web 2.0 with Better Beta and More Accountability
2007-11-09 06:17:00 Wikipedia.org defines Web 2.0 as “a perceived second generation of web-based communities and hosted services ? such as social-networking sites, wikis and folksonomies ? which aim to facilitate creativity, collaboration and sharing between users.” Gibberish? Yes. Forget the jargon. Web 2.0 is is simply a new wave of using the Internet for users to get ... More About: Technology , Writing , Beta , Innovation , Accountability
Understanding Publicity, Part 2: The Who, What, Why, When and How.
2007-11-07 09:03:00 Our guest blogger Murry Shohat is back with Part 2 in the series, Understanding Publicity . Check out Murry’s bio page here at The Poles Apart Design Blog. Let’s get to it. In Understanding Publicity, Part 1, I mentioned that with advertising, you pay for space and time. With publicity, you mostly PRAY for space and time. The reason is simple: there is a sort of “church/state” separation or wall that is firmly in place in western journalism. You can buy ads but you can’t buy a news story. You can pay for a TV or radio commercial but you can’t throw dollars at a reporter for coverage, not in any media that’ll help your business. Online, you can pay for incoming links to increase your page ranking in major search engines, but many experts, and even Google frowns upon this type on insincere and inorganic form of website publicity. If you study the media, you’ll learn that good editorial content receives five to twenty times more attentio...
Finding a Website or Blog Designer and Being a Good Client
2007-11-06 00:10:00 So you need a website or a blog and haven’t the faintest idea how to go about choosing the best one for you or your business? My best advice to you, speaking as a small business owner, a website and blog designer, and well, a human being is know what you want your website or ... More About: Business , Website , Blogging , Blog , Designer
Understanding Publicity and How to Get It: Part 1
2007-11-01 23:40:00 Today’s guest post comes from a long-time San Francisco Bay Area freelance writer and journalist, Murry Shohat. For over 20 years, Murry has been writing and providing PR and marketing services for technology and media firms. Check out Murry’s bio page here at The Poles Apart Design Blog. I figured Murry could enlighten us on ... More About: Marketing , Business , Publicity , Part , Understanding
Cool Sites (2)
2007-10-30 07:05:00 Another installment of cool sites to visit: Tubetorial: Tubetorial is a great new website that shows video tutorials on web development tips and ticks of all kinds and how to do this and that on WordPress. It’s a great site for us visual learners. It’s quite easy to navigate and find videos. Tubetorial is also ... More About: Technology , Tools , Cool , Innovation , Sites
Our Love Affair With WordPress: Part 4 Episode 1 - Your Blog Design
2007-10-29 23:08:00 Last time on “Our Love Affair With WordPress” you learned about blog content. You learned that good content is relevant, engaging, mostly free, cites sources, should contain visuals and ultimately reflects you or your business. So, let the courting continue with the pretty stuff, design. The allure of WordPress is its seemingly infinite capacity to ... More About: Wordpress , Design , Technology , Episode
Good Web Content is Only Published By Talented People
2007-10-28 07:37:00 I read this wonderful article by Scott Karp at Publishing 2.0 about the myth of user-generated content. He argues that the media and corporations aren’t always looking for the next great piece of user-generated content (like digital video, blogging, podcasting, news, gossip, research, mobile phone photography and wikis, etc.) that will make that “average user” ... More About: People , Writing , Content , Published , Good
Website Design 101 : Design by Example
2007-10-25 02:27:00 What is website design? It’s not just how a website looks, I can tell you that much…and more. Website design is design in the truest sense of the word: “organization or structure of formal elements in a work.” Website design is like architecture. It’s not enough to look good, because otherwise the building will fall ... More About: Design , Xamp
Our Love Affair With WordPress: Part 3 - Your Blog Content
2007-10-22 21:46:00 So, back for more? Couldn’t resist, huh? Well, let’s get started then. Friday, we went over the The Essentials of Blogging and talked about how content, categorizing (including archiving) and commenting are the main staples of blogging. A blog exists for content and sociability for the most part. The goal of any blogger should be ... More About: Wordpress , Technology , Writing , Love
The New Generation of Online Learning - (Free) Visual Tutorials
2007-10-20 00:04:00 When I took online courses at Sessions.edu, my friends and family looked at me cross eyed like they couldn’t understand how that could work. They also couldn’t understand how I could pay money for classes at a school with no actual physical location. Well, Sessions does have a corporate office, just no classrooms or ... More About: Business , Technology , Tools , Tutorials , Free
Our Love Affair With WordPress: Part 2 - Essentials of Blogging on WordPres
2007-10-19 08:00:00 On Wednesday’s discussion Our Love Affair With WordPress: Part 1 - A WordPress Overview, we gave you a few essential links to visit on getting intimate with WordPress. Hope you and WordPress have bonded a bit. If you have and are already convinced that blogging with WordPress is ideal for you, contact Poles Apart Design ... More About: Wordpress , Technology , Writing , Blogging
Our Love Affair With WordPress: Part 1 - A WordPress Overview
More articles from this author:2007-10-17 10:39:00 If it?s not yet obvious, we LOVE Word Press here at Poles Apart Design. We?d marry WordPress if we could, seriously. But alas, it?s not legal and well, sort of gross if you think about it. So, let?s not. Let?s instead focus on how to get the best out of WordPress. Our Love Affair With WordPress ... More About: Wordpress , Technology , Blogging 1, 2 |
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