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Shared Links – More WordPress? Yep.

Blake Imeson — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 03:38:04 +0000

Got a sizable amount of awesome links to dump on you today. Crazy, mad, ridiculously busy, that has been my last few weeks. There. That’s my excuse for infrequent posts. :) Onward…

Seth’s Blog: Things to ask before you redo your website – Great philosophical questions to answer for really anything you build on the web.

SEO

8 Ways to Target Keywords for Ranking and Usability | 10e20 – Very good summary of some important SEO concepts.

Web Design

CSS Sprites – Online CSS Sprite Builder / Generator – An easy generator to create CSS sprites to speed up your site. Google uses them like so…

Fresh Free High-Quality Icon Sets « Smashing Magazine – Grab some free high quality icons. I’m addicted to collecting these. Need any icons, just ask…

WordPress

300+ Resources to Help You Become a WordPress Expert | Webdesigner Depot – Good grief! This is an overwhelming, yet VERY helpful post.

How To Integrate Facebook With WordPress « Smashing Magazine – Talk about providing value! Smashing Mag never disappoints. I have been needing this info!

Themes

The Digital Business Card WordPress Theme – Human3rror – I Break Stuff.

Plugins

WordPress › Socialize « WordPress Plugins – Choose which social media icons to include on each post. Great idea.

WordPress › After the Deadline « WordPress Plugins – High quality spell / grammar checking tool for WordPress. Recently bought by Automattic, owner of WordPress.

WordPress › RSS Cloud « WordPress Plugins – New tech to make delivery of your RSS feeds quicker. Similar idea to PubSubHubbub. (Whose name always cracks me up)

ShopperPress – WordPress Shopping Cart Plugin – Another WordPress e-commerce plugin that looks promising. I wonder how it compares to WP-e-commerce or Shopp, among others.

Bonus

45 Brilliant Examples of Photo Manipulation Art | Noupe – fun post!

(Heads up: I’m hard at work on a huge post on WordPress plugins I’ve used)

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Shared Links – from Grove

Blake Imeson — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 15:11:57 +0000

These links are coming to you at the end of my first week of classes. Thus starts my senior year at Grove City College. Eeek!

Still have been reading some great things online and found these awesome links to share.

Study Shows Small Businesses That Blog Get 55% More Website Visitors – further proof that business need to be blogging. SEO value alone is worth the effort.

Five Minute Upgrade – Writing Blog Post Titles That Grab Attention

13 Vital Tips and Hacks to Protect Your WordPress Admin Area

OfficeTab – Adds Tabs to Microsoft Office – make Word, Excel, PowerPoint better.

Free and Commercial Stock Photography Sites

(New) 27 Circular Social Media Icons in 3 Sizes

Themes

Jungleland WordPress Theme

KeKo WordPress Theme

Bonus

Send a letter online :: Snailmailr.com – Cool way to send a “real” letter to someone.

30+ Fantastic HDR Photos by Grey Jones – if you don’t know what an HDR photo is, you must check this out. Gorgeous!

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Shared Links – new WP plugins & more

Blake Imeson — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 03:51:00 +0000

Latest helpful links I have come across since the last batch of shared links. Enjoy!

Twitter Tips for Beginners [VIDEO] from the amazing Darren Rowse (Problogger). This is actually more oriented for business use of Twitter.

13 Tips For A Better E-Commerce Website

20 Nice Free Handwritten Fonts – it is amazing the fonts you can get for free!

SEOmoz | New Mozbar – I use SEObook’s toolbar but this may someday be a good alternative. Any opinions? (both are Firefox only)

WordPress Resources – 48 Resources, Tips, Tricks & Themes | Think Design – has some great WordPress dev. blogs ( I am subscribed to most of them) and tutorials.

Themes

15+ High Quality Free WordPress Themes Released in June-July 2009

Brownie WordPress Theme

FreeStyle WordPress Theme

Plugins

45+ Essential WordPress Plugins for Pro Blogging | Blog Perfume

WordPress › Quick Search « WordPress Plugins – suggests search terms as you type.

WordPress › Dashboard Notepad « WordPress Plugins – leave notes in WP backend.

WordPress › WP Pubsubhubbub « WordPress Plugins – New Google technology.

WordPress Plugin Competition Blog » Section Widget for your section-specific needs

Best Commercial WordPress Plugins: Ultimate Review List – two of the best WordPress E-commerce plugins are in this post.

Bonus Tool

Spam-me-not – e-mail link obfuscator – I use this to build mailto: links that are not easily scrapable by spam bots.

Please send me a message or leave a comment if this type of post is useful to you. Or is this unwanted content?

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Shared Links – Spread the Love

Blake Imeson — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 22:30:52 +0000

From my ramblings through the never-ending fields of internet information…

Themes

Aubogasta WordPress theme

Plugins

Bonus :)

The Word of Mouth KFC challenge

Check out my new partnership. I build/manage this blog, Scott writes the killer content. Sweet deal. Phone Savant | Tips, Tricks & Reviews. Amplify Your Mobile Life.

Spread the love!

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