Web Design For Idiots

This is a guest post written by Ben Barden, lead developer at CMF Ads, creator of Injader, and blogger at Top Ten Blog Tips. A couple of weeks back, I offered to help Lindsay with a post or two at Web Design For Idiots whenever time allows. After Lindsay set up my account, I logged [...]

Using this idea, you will be able to simply create a basic blog post, and turn it into a static page. So if you want a CONTACT , ABOUT ME, or any other static page, you will definitely want to read on.. First you will want to create your blog post. Write it up as [...]

Things you REALLY need to stay away from when designing your blog/website. Read this page to seee the things you WANT to stay away from, and to find out if your web page sucks! Do NOT put white text on a black background. It is IMPOSSIBLE to read and readers will run as soon as [...]

So you decided that you want to start COMPLETELY from scratch and build your website/blog without the help of ANYONE. GOOD FOR YOU! But i bet you have no idea where to start. The easiest, most newbie way, is to start by using one large TABLE to hold your main content. A table is an [...]

I have had a lot of people contact me, all excited to start working on their blog and adding plugins and making changes, and then after talking to them, I realized that they did not have their own HOSTED blog. When you decide to blog for the first time, chances are you just set up [...]

Did this little graphic catch your eye? It’s simple, to the point, but it is eye catching, RIGHT? I do a LOT of feedback posts in forums for people’s websites. The main reason I do it is because in looking at their websites and critiquing them, I am getting new ideas for my websites. One [...]

There is a SUPER simple way to change any image that you see on your website and make it into something complete custom, and guess what, IT DOESN’T REQUIRE ANY CODING!!!! Its a simple 9 step process. 1. Go to your website and find the page with the image that you want to change 2. [...]

So you want to move your wordpress blog to your root folder? Or maybe you just clicked on this because you wanted to see whats the point of doing this. If you don’t already know this, your “root” is the public_html directory, or the main page of your site. This is the directory that users [...]