Archive for the ‘Brilliant Design’ Category


10 Powerful SEO Tips for WordPress Users

Posted on April 22, 2010 - by Nicholas Cardot60 Vibrant Responses

10 Powerful SEO Tips for WordPress Users

Bloggers and webmasters are constantly wondering why Google is such a bully to some websites and why they are so positive toward others. What are the keys to building a successful presence on the search engine results pages? What are the most important SEO factors for getting your…


The 12 Core Elements of a Brilliant Design

Posted on April 20, 2010 - by Nicholas Cardot35 Vibrant Responses

The 12 Core Elements of a Brilliant Design

Average bloggers tend to fail on this one…a lot. Most people get into blogging because they have a passion to write about something. The majority of bloggers assume that as long as they write about what they love then they will be successful. Instead of ever beautifying their site they…


10 of the Best WordPress Plugins in 2010

Posted on April 6, 2010 - by Nicholas Cardot67 Vibrant Responses

10 of the Best WordPress Plugins in 2010

Each day, I continue to be amazed at the ingenuity of the WordPress community. The plugins that are being developed each day are amazing.
A few months ago, I launched a collection of plugins called The 15 Best Plugins to Use in 2010 and today I’m adding…


How to Harness the Power Within Your Stats

Posted on April 2, 2010 - by Robyn-Dale Samuda26 Vibrant Responses

How to Harness the Power Within Your Stats

Most of us know that knowledge is power and that the proper execution of knowledge leads to success. So let us apply this principle to successful blogging and measure our progress by carefully analyzing our site’s statistics.
Let’s face it you don’t have to be…


Your Article Page is Your Advertisment

Posted on March 28, 2010 - by Derek Jensen13 Vibrant Responses

Your Article Page is Your Advertisment

Think about all the links you have on the web.  Most if not all of these links are ones consisting of your specific articles.
Don’t spend too much time designing your homepage if your article page is lacking the quality your homepage has currently.  Think about what is…


The Fundamentals of Blog Branding & Identity

Posted on March 17, 2010 - by Lindsay Branscombe36 Vibrant Responses

The Fundamentals of Blog Branding & Identity

I have recently been lucky enough to be invited into a small group of blogging professionals and to experience their daily life as professional bloggers. These are guys who can easily pull 40+ comments in one post and their websites have the amount of activity and views that…


9 Tips for Building a Search Friendly Website

Posted on March 15, 2010 - by Suzanne Vara28 Vibrant Responses

9 Tips for Building a Search Friendly Website

Creating a website solution that fits the needs of the company while meeting or exceeding the expectations of search engines and users is challenging.  The first steps in understanding how to build a search engine friendly site is to design a site for the user first and the…


The Hottest Template Club on the Planet

Posted on March 11, 2010 - by Nicholas Cardot25 Vibrant Responses

The Hottest Template Club on the Planet

Elegant Themes has got to be the hottest WordPress template club on the internet. They’ve been pushing out a new template about twice a month for a long time and for only $19.95 per year you can download and use all of them.
It’s not $19.95 per template. It’s $19.95…


The 57 Most Creative 404 Pages in 2010

Posted on February 15, 2010 - by Nicholas Cardot46 Vibrant Responses

The 57 Most Creative 404 Pages in 2010

It’s so annoying when you click on a link and you’re met with those annoying words, “404 – Page Not Found.”
404 is the error that you receive when you try to visit a url that doesn’t actually exist.  For example, the address http://www.sitesketch101.com/imsupersmart is not areal page…


The 25 Most Beautiful Blogs in 2010

Posted on February 8, 2010 - by Nicholas Cardot61 Vibrant Responses

The 25 Most Beautiful Blogs in 2010

The design of a blog is perhaps the most undervalued concept in the entire blogging process. Most bloggers fail to realize how important it is to design something that delivers a powerful first impression to the people visiting their blogs for the first time.
This…