Through this series we’ve gone through a lot of awesome ways to Rock Your Blog. Each post was a touch-and-go overview, and really each of the topics deserve to have their own series. Hopefully they were enough to get the gears turning in your head of ways that you can re-asses your goals as a [...]

I have a handful of blogs that I read often daily and learn from to help me grow as a blogger and designer while fine tuning my own blog into more of what I want it to be. Here is a brief list of posts and serieses (sereisi? seriesen?) that cover a wide range of [...]

As your blog grows more than likely you have settled into a small list of primary focuses. But what if you want to stray from those without detracting from the primary posts? Enter: Asides. Asides are quickly becoming popular. They are easy to setup and make a nice addition to your focused blog. Here is [...]

When it boils down to it, all a blog is is post after post after post. A massive database of mental exhale through your keyboard and out your modem for all the world to read. But that exhale is what makes your blog what it is. Don’t just let it fly into the wind. Here [...]

WordPress plugins are what help WordPress to stand as a lone reed among the sands of other blogging platforms. Most plugins are free, easy to use, and – for the most part – absolutely brilliant. They will eat your spam, send you e-mail, backup your content and feed your readers. Here is my own list [...]

With a multitude of blogs out and just as many free templates to go with them, many blogs are looking alike. However… You don’t have to blend in. That’s correct my friends, you can stand out like a Five Legged Steer in Bloggerfieldville. Some of the obvious ways to customize your blog start with a [...]

With millions of active blogs on the web and thousands starting every day who decides which ones are good and which ones are flops? In a way it’s impossible to know the good versus the flops; Everyone has a different goal for why they began their blog. But, still, there are ways to measure a [...]

Ever since I began blogging my enjoyment of it has grown with every post. Since I want to share that joyI am starting a series about making your blog the blog you always wanted it to be. The series is Rock Your Blog. Some of the topics I’ll be hitting: Why do you blog? What [...]