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Great Wide Graphic Web boxes and Banners

Ibdreamy — Fri, 25 Dec 2009 15:20:03 +0000

Web box graphics from Graphic River, 1 PSD Layered, easy to modify: 2 Different designs 3 different color scheme (you can create many more) Ready to use! Also these web banner Themes from Graphic River..these can be used as templates to create your company web banners. This Theme is only $6.00 at Graphic River which is an amazing website that I LOVE!!!

Tutorial: How to add an image gallery to your WordPress post

Ibdreamy — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 06:11:33 +0000

A gallery will display a set of thumbnail images attached to that post or page. If you upload images using the Add an Image icon, they will get attached automatically. If you upload images using the media library, you will need to attach it to a post or page before it will appear in a [...]

Don’t Miss Out on Local SEO Opportunities

Ibdreamy — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 20:09:30 +0000

Don’t Miss Out on Local SEO Opportunities

Local search engine optimization is a great way to charge up your search rankings. It’s a faster method for making sure you’re on the right track, and if optimized properly you can really take advantage of some targeted traffic that will only help your business in the future.

It doesn’t matter if you’re developing websites for a mom and pop local plumber or a multi-million dollar agency that will have thousands of dynamic pages, the same 13 steps to on-site SEO will need to be applied to each.

13 Easy Steps to On-Site SEO and How to Implement Them

How to Write Blog Posts to Increase Search Engine Traffic - Here's an easy formula to follow: Read the rest of this post...

15 Useful WordPress Tricks to Make Your Theme Even Better

Ibdreamy — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 07:51:38 +0000

Wordpress is a very powerful CMS (Content Management System). It has tons of capability and can be extremely powerful. There's only one thing in the way from all of this power and you as the blog owner - your theme. See, no matter how many awesome features such as threaded comments or breadcrumb navigation or even an "edit" link beside each post are added, you're limited by your theme that you are using. If you theme isn't "smart" enough to use these features, well, quite frankly, you can't use them. This is a post for all the Wordpress theme developers out there. Here are only a few of the many great snippets of code that will take your current theme creation and make it that much better. Please, use them. Read the rest of this post..

Tutorial – Design a Beautiful Website From Scratch

Ibdreamy — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 12:51:41 +0000

Have you ever wanted to design a beautiful website but just didn't know how? To be honest, a few years ago, that happened to me too. While browsing the web, I saw so many nice looking websites and wished I had the skills to create such designs. Today I can and I'm going to teach you how to do so too! Essentially, it requires a few Photoshop skills and an eye for detail. Through this tutorial, I will point out these tiny details which make a website design look beautiful. Fire up Photoshop and let's get going! Author: Marko Prljic Design a Beautiful Website From Scratch The final PSD designs are, of course, on sale at ThemeForest.net. Keep reading for Video Tutorial...

Web design build questions to ask (yourself) or new clients

Ibdreamy — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 09:30:17 +0000

If your a webmaster or web designer I highly recommend you read the rest of this post at www.simonday.com This is a great resource for anyone who does freelance design or builds websites.

Web design build questions to ask (yourself) or new clients

What do you want the web site to do for your company? (is it to just promote brand awareness and for people who hear about them and then go to their site, will people be finding them through search engines, is it existing clients looking for support or news, are you selling online, are you offering downloads, company reports etc) Who is your target audience (age / level of internet experience etc)? (Do they require a modern, fast paced, highly graphical site to target the younger generation or a more user friendly site for the less experienced or older internet users. ) What image do you want to portray (Professional / Casual / cutting edge etc)? (Some sites use white space and limited text to give a relaxed feel while others use lots of images and text to give the site a busy feel. Define the feel of the site) If you have branding what colours, fonts, styles do you use? (See business cards, letterheads etc). More often that not the sole trader will have no graphics, no logo and no identity so in these cases you need to ask the client for colour schemes they think fit with the ideas but also do market research on the competition because the client may not be right.

CORE QUESTIONS:

What do you absolutely definitely want on the site? (This list could include blog, shopping cart, members log in, private areas, RSS feeds. Gallery newsletter, contact forms, advertising space, different languages, search facility, etc) What would you like if possible/within budget? What absolutely must be on the homepage and what is the order of priority? (This is a core question and you should allow the client time to ponder and discuss this with you. Their answers here should define the position of the building blocks. The answers could be phone number, email, help icon, downloads, cart total, core product links etc.) What must be visible at all times? (Every page has a fold. A fold is below the visual part of the page and requires you to scroll down to see it. I have a height I use but you should decide for yourself where it should be. The client must understand this and agree what can go above and below). How many links will be needed and how many levels of navigation will there be? (You need to understand the journey paths and decide how far down the link structure will go (level one, level two, level three etc)

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30 Tutorials On Converting A PSD To XHTML And CSS

Ibdreamy — Tue, 26 May 2009 04:28:44 +0000

30 of the best tutorials on web for converting A PSD to a XHTML & CSS layout. These tutorials you will learn the process on how to create a Photoshop web layout and be able to convert it into a valid XHTML & CSS web page. The tutorials are a step by step process which [...]

Best WordPress Podcasts

Ibdreamy — Fri, 22 May 2009 00:49:17 +0000

Here is a short list of some Podcasts about WordPress. Some of them do a pretty good job at being entertaining and geeky at the same time. I can dig it. WordCast Podcast Join Beth Skinner, Kym Huynh and Dave Moyer each week to hear all about the latest in WordPress and the blogging world! [...]

How To Be A Rockstar WordPress Designer

Ibdreamy — Mon, 18 May 2009 13:28:16 +0000

The book is aimed at anyone with a solid understanding of HTML/CSS. You don’t need to know PHP, you don’t need to have ever even touched WordPress before. The examples begin from scratch and build on each other, while basic PHP principles that are used are explained in an easy to understand manner.If you’ve ever wanted to get started with WordPress theming, or you’re looking to take your skills to the next level with advanced theming concepts, this is the book for you!

30 Excellent WordPress Video Tutorials

Ibdreamy — Sat, 16 May 2009 07:15:12 +0000

WordPress is one of the most popular publishing platforms currently out on the market. It’s free, highly-customizable, and very easy to install and use. Because of its popularity, you’ll find a wide array of resources that discuss WordPress development, administration, as well as plenty of user guides to help you get started quickly. In this article, we take advantage of the merits of learning by way of watching video tutorials and screencasts. Video tutorials allow you to learn by following along with the instructor in real-time - a format that’s very effective for many people. You can use these video tutorials a couple of ways: to learn about WordPress yourself or to send to your not-so-technology-inclined clients as a reference to help them get started. You’ll find the tutorials organized into several topics that include theme development and customization, site administration, beginner’s tutorials, and using some WordPress tools. Read the rest of this post

The Most Awesome Resource List – 4 Webmasters

Ibdreamy — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 06:38:14 +0000

Check out this webmaster "resource" link list - Take a look see and you might just find exactly what you were looking for... While I was putting this post together.. I revisited some of the links and wow there are some really amazing and useful sites out there that I had forgotten about. Check it out! Colors, Fonts. Brushes, Scripts, graphics, CSS.. &more

iPod ~ Download YouTube videos as MP4

Ibdreamy — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 12:25:01 +0000

An interesting side-effect of YouTube’s recent push for higher quality videos is that most videos can be downloaded as MP4 files directly from YouTube. Until now, you could only get FLV files from your browser’s cache or using one of the many websites that let you download YouTube videos. In fact, to download the MP4 [...]

How to Customize your Feedburner Headline Animator

Ibdreamy — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 04:19:40 +0000

A good way to promote your site is by using Feedburner for your RSS Feeds. One of their cooler features is their Headline Animator widget and if your anything like me and you love to design graphics then this can be a fun little project for you to add to your site.

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Creating a WordPress Theme From Scratch – Screencast Series…

Ibdreamy — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 03:54:25 +0000

Check out this Wordpress for Designers screencast series by In the Woods Blog but Themeforest.net The following screencast is day #3 which is explained below: WordPress for Designers: Day 3

Moving right along into day three of our Wordpress for Designers series; today we will start creating our own theme from scratch. We will have a close look at how exactly to go about setting up your themes stylesheet and information, as well as creating the index.php page. In addition, we will examine wordpress template tags, what they are, and how to use them properly.

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WordPress TV

Ibdreamy — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 10:22:31 +0000

WordPress TV launched earlier last week (go to http://WordPress.tv to view it). The concept of WordPress TV is similar to Adobe TV — it’s a multimedia site loaded with a ton of video tutorials and other video content, only WordPress TV is more user generated. Here’s a video introducing WordPress TV: