Archive for the ‘Build it Yourself Web Sites’ Category

Top 10 Plugins for WordPress Sites for 2010

Thanks for coming back! If you haven’t subscribed to my RSS feed , please do. If you’re bewildered by the thousands of plugins for WordPress, you’re not alone.  The official WordPress site for the self-hosted variety, WordPress.org, lists over 12,000 in their directory alone. So what’s a site owner to do? Well, here’s my top [...]

Highlighter Plugin for WordPress a nifty way to snip & share

There’s a couple of companies I follow on a regular basis because they regularly innovate, either in WordPress theming, or in developing unique plugins that enhance the user experience for visitors to WordPress-based sites. Unique Blog Designs started out as a wordpress theming company, and that’s where Bigpacific.com went for the design of our first [...]

The Argument for Templates vs. Designed from Scratch

by Laurie McConnell Just like you or I can make biscuits that fail to rise, or attempt to use quinoa flour instead of regular to universal disgust, so too can we catastrophically screw up the design and functionality of a specialized web site. I’m talking today specifically about designing web sites for the Real Estate [...]

Update: New Template System for WordPress

Now you can have the ideal web site – fully customizable, self-editable, robust content management system that also integrates RSS, photo plugins, ad systems and more.

Ready-made Templates for WordPress

Should you go with a Wordpress.com free blog, or choose the self-hosted option? Find out here.

Becoming a Blogger, for the average person

I’m inviting you to join me in learning how to blog, from a beginner’s perspective, and share your experience in the Grok the Net community.