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Wake, Woke, Awake, Awoken
- Language & Grammar
- March 15, 2012
A reader responded to my post about irregular verbs last week to express confusion about when to use “awake” and…
Photography 101: Shape, Line, Texture, and Pattern
- Beginner
- September 17, 2013
Now that we’ve covered a number of fundamentals in photography, from composition and light to focus and POV, let’s now…
An Intro to CSS, or How to Make Things Look Like You Like
- Advanced
- June 21, 2013
What is CSS? It’s the design of your site — special code that tells your site how to display things…
Photography 101: Establishing a Point of View
- Beginner
- September 3, 2013
Today, photographer Lynn Wohlers at BLUEBRIGHTLY walks us through the basics of point of view.
What Does Your Gravatar Say About You?
- Beginner
- April 23, 2014
Your Gravatar represents you on the web. Learn how to make the best possible impression.
An Intro to CSS: Finding CSS Selectors
- Advanced
- July 25, 2013
Last month, we introduced a series on CSS (Cascading Stylesheets) and talked a bit about how you can use CSS…
Measure Twice, Cut Once
- Beginner
- September 10, 2014
Planning your content first can help you choose the right theme.
Blog Taglines to Love
- Beginner
- November 26, 2014
Tagline inspiration to help you perfect the phrase that welcomes readers to your blog.
The Art of the Open Letter
- Intermediate
- August 13, 2013
Want to try writing an open letter? Take a look at these examples for inspiration.
Set the Scene with a Three-Picture Story
- The Craft of Photography
- February 19, 2014
I upload sets of photos to my photoblog and use images to liven up posts here all the time, but…
How to Publish Posts that Search Engines Will Love
- General Advice & Pro Tips
- March 10, 2016
Explore the six elements that can help push your blog to the top of the search rankings.
The $64,000 Question: WordPress.com or WordPress.org?
- Advanced
- November 14, 2013
If you’ve been using WordPress.com for very long, you’ve likely run into some variation of the grand “com v. org”…
