Archive for the ‘Brilliant Design’ Category
8 Awesome & Creative Free WordPress Themes
Posted on January 12, 2010 - by Nicholas Cardot42 Vibrant Responses
If you want to stand out in the world of blogging then you’ve really got to have a site that looks amazing. We live in a world that ignores amazing content if it doesn’t look amazing.
Even if you consistently write award winning content that won’t guarantee that people will read it. If…
Featuring Your Blog’s Guest Authors
Posted on January 10, 2010 - by Nicholas Cardot19 Vibrant Responses
Sketch Bookmarks WordPress Plugin
Posted on January 9, 2010 - by Nicholas Cardot44 Vibrant Responses
I’m very pleased to announce the immediate release of my very first WordPress plugin.
This plugin contains amazing looking, sketched icons for only the top social bookmarking sites.
Quit confusing your readers with dozens of bookmarking options and start to really go after those bookmarking sites that are actually getting used with these amazing looking…
6 Crucial Ways to Keep Readers Onboard
Posted on January 6, 2010 - by Aminul Islam Sajib31 Vibrant Responses
You’ve worked hard to create content for your blog. You’ve desperately worked to bring viral traffic to your blog. You leave comments on others’ blog, you participate in the conversation, and you leave your sites URL on forums. You email your friends and colleagues with a link to your…
Is Your Website W3C Validated? If not, Why?
Posted on December 29, 2009 - by Nicholas Cardot59 Vibrant Responses
I’m proud today to announce to the world that Site Sketch 101 has been validated by the World Wide Web Consortium as valid XHTML 1.0 Strict.
When I first stopped by W3C’s validator, I was faced with over 180 major errors on home page. Yet after about 3 hours of carefully digging through the…
Beautify Your Home Page With Post Excerpts
Posted on December 28, 2009 - by Nicholas Cardot44 Vibrant Responses
You’ve probably noticed that I don’t show the full text of every article on the home page of Site Sketch 101. If I did, the ten articles that I list on the front page would probably run down for about ten miles before you reached the end of the first page.
Actually, that is what…
Introducing WordPress 2.9 “Carmen”
Posted on December 19, 2009 - by Nicholas Cardot27 Vibrant Responses
I love using WordPress to power Site Sketch 101. In the past, I’ve used Blogspot, Joomla and other platforms to develop websites and blogs but none of them have compared to the experience I’m now enjoying with WordPress.
One of the most exciting things about the WordPress package is that it’s constantly being upgraded. Every…
5 Great Tips to Spruce Up Your Blog’s Design
Posted on November 24, 2009 - by Nicholas Cardot92 Vibrant Responses
When a brand new visitor stumbles onto your website they’re going to decide within a matter of seconds whether or not they’re going to stick around.
It’s vital to create a powerful first impression if you plan on keeping your visitors at your site. For that matter, if you want your regular…
CSS With Colour: More Than Just Slice & Go
Posted on November 1, 2009 - by Nicholas Cardot11 Vibrant Responses
CSS with Colour is more than a psd to html slicing service. They like to think of themselves as a frontend development agency.
What exactly does that mean?
Simple. In the world of psd to html slicing companies that seem…
15 Awesome WordPress Templates Under $25
Posted on October 27, 2009 - by Nicholas Cardot46 Vibrant Responses
Several times each week people contact me and ask me where they can find an awesome template for their blog without paying a lot for it.
Having an amazing design for your blog is incredibly important.
In fact, if you don’t have a nice looking, easy-to-navigate website, most users won’t even take the…
