Blogging tips, tools and tutorials. In plain English.
Design and usability is all about making your site a joy to use. It's about providing a great user experience. You want a design that's pleasing to the eyes and you want any visitor to be able to use your site as easily as possible.
I'll tell you from experience, for most of us, this is an ongoing process. I am continually tweaking and restructuring and improving.
Here are a few posts to get you started...
Here are all my Design & Usability posts, the most recent first...
Today I'm a leeeeetle bit excited about Elegant Themes as another option for your WordPress site. These themes are paid-for DIY, but I think many of you will really like them. I'm already a tad smitten. I realize I'm a bit late to throw this in, but I just bought the Developer package yesterday (after several people have {Continue reading…}
Now that we've covered a lot of the preliminary steps for setting up our new blog, it's time for the fun stuff! Today we're going to install a new theme. How the best WordPress themes are built The best word press themes are built with a 2-part system. There's a framework underneath that gives the {Continue reading…}
I use and recommend the WordPress theme called Genesis. I love it, but one of the hardest things I've encountered is trying to choose which child theme I want. The truth is, I've purchased many more child themes than I'd like to admit because I can't make up my mind. Although this isn't surprising since {Continue reading…}
As much as I've talked about Genesis recently and as many questions I've received, I thought it would be good to put all the helpful Genesis resources all in one spot. I'll be updating as necessary… A few of my posts about Genesis How does Genesis work? Here's an analogy. Q&A: What Genesis Child Theme {Continue reading…}
I think navigation bars and dropdown menus can be problematic. Sometimes, when confronted with a dropdown menu, many users' attention is drawn to the options in the dropdown menu and overlook the main link entirely. This may not be a huge problem…unless the main menu item is linked to a page you really don't want {Continue reading…}
