Dressing up your blog posts with editorial images is a great way to capture your readers attention and spice up your website. A common pitfall when trying to find good images for blog posts is thinking that any picture that comes up on a Google image search is fair-game to use in a post. This leads to people innocently violating copyright, and not even realizing it. Continue reading Finding Creative Commons Images to Use on Your Blog
Month: November 2011
Customize Your WordPress Site on a budget with Themes
The look of your WordPress site, and a lot of how your readers can interact with it is controlled by the use of themes. A theme is basically a directory of files that control the design and presentation of your articles and the layout of your site.
A default WordPress installation comes with a few themes, which makes it ready to use right out of the box. Because of this, you can start adding content within minutes of having WordPress installed. Unfortunately, these themes are being used on tens of thousands of other peoples sites as well. Continue reading Customize Your WordPress Site on a budget with Themes