Google vs Yahoo & MSN

There exist basically three search engines out there that mean anything:  Google, YAHOO, and MSN (a.k.a. Bing).
These are the only three on the market that give you any significant amount of traffic if you were to rank anywhere on the first page.  ASK!, AOL, or Hotbot, are the runners up to the “big three” and [...]

Do You Ever Want To Bully Your Client?

Working with a new client recently I found myself in an awkward position.  I wanted to convince him to move in one direction over another in order to make my work easier.
Have you ever been there?
I’ll be completely honest.  I did bully my client.  The theme he wanted to work with was awful.  I gave [...]

Trusting Your Art With Your Client

Have you ever finished up a design project and just been dazzled by your own creation to such a degree that you hate to give it up to the client’s control?
I’ll admit it.  I feel that way sometimes.
The problem is that I’ve seen what some clients are capable of.
That perfectly customized blog theme that suddenly [...]

Interview with Blog Designer Charly Leetham

I interviewed Charly Leetham, one of our writers here at Blog Designer News, a few months past about her business as a blog designer and today I’m sharing that conversation with you.
Find out more about Charly at Ask Charly Leetham or Follow her on Twitter

 
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How Well Do You Keep Up With Plugins?

I just read a great blog post with a list of Wordpress Plugins that make a blog respond differently to unique users based on several different situations. I wasn’t aware of many of these plugs before reading about them and I felt a twinge of concern.
Shouldn’t I be more in tune with these things?
How [...]

I Know We See The Same Themes Everywhere…

It’s true. We in the blog design business see the same themes everywhere and can get tired of the same old same old.  It’s important to realize though that our clients don’t live and breath Wordpress like we do.
I took a call today from a pre-client who wants one of the original Revolution themes.  I [...]

Blog Designer Interview: Curtis McHale

I’m in the process of doing several Blog Designer interviews for my Blog Evangelists members and decided to share the audio from my latest interview with you here on Blog Designer News.
Curtis McHale hales from Canada and I found him on Twitter. We connected on Skype this past week to talk about how he [...]

 
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Task manager is your friend!

When I first started out with blog design I would write down my tasks and ideas from my clients on paper, until one day….my emails got away from me and I couldn’t remember who paid and who didn’t, or whose blog was whose! It was a total mess and that was when I [...]

Premium Wordpress: Wordprezzie

We all know that there are a lot of great premium Wordpress Themes out there, and a lot of them are made great. However when I find an unique theme that I feel would be a benefit to Blog designers everywhere I like to feature them on this blog.
Wordprezzie is unique in a [...]

Color Palette: “July”

A colorful palette great for a summer blog theme found on colour lovers:
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