Blogs are a great way to make money online. However, sometimes the money is made not from direct methods like
Google Adsense or
affiliate marketing.
Sometimes, all you need a blog for is to grow your personal brand as a guru or an expert and the money comes in many, many other ways.
I’m releasing the theme I use for my
work-at-home blog as
The Guru Theme so you can use it on your blog too. I basically created space for a bigger blog header, which is necessary if you want to band yourself well.
This simple theme is perfect if:
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First in a series of "CSS do's and dont's" articles on Css Globe. This one is a guide to proper css selecting
On the first part of this series we talked about how you can generate traffic to your website by getting it featured on
Web Design and CSS galleries. On the second part we talked about
Blog Carnivals. Today we will cover another basic yet effective strategy: leaving comments on other blogs.
The concept: Blogs are conversations. Most of them, in fact, allow any user to post a comment at the end of every article. Usually you just need to write down your name and email (kept private) and publish your comment.
Most blogging platforms also allow you to insert your website URL, which will then be used to hyperlink your name to your website.
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On the first part of this series we covered how you can generate traffic to your website via
Web Design and CSS galleries. On the this second part I want to cover one of the most basic traffic generation methods for bloggers: Blog Carnivals.
Concept: A Blog Carnival is basically an event where bloggers that cover a particular topic will get together and post a collection of their articles. Usually you have one hosting blog and the participants. The participants send the links to their articles and posts, and the hosting blog will then publish all the links in a single post.
There are all sorts of carnivals around the web: weekly, monthly, with fixed host, with variable host, standalone editions and so on.
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Animated progress bar created with nothing but css.
Here's the problem: you have a container with some content in it like an image along with some initial descriptive text. Then, when users hover their mouse over the container, a hidden container is revealed to present additional information over top of the current information but in a way that retains content from the original container.
This was essentially the problem presented to me by
Anton Peck. He had originally asked for a way to do this with JavaScript. To which I provided the following solution that didn't need to use JavaScript at all.
Check out the quick demo.
When you hover over the container, a new container is displayed over the existing content. The trick here is the use of position:relative to allow the static content to appear over absolutely positioned content.
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Written by Jonathan Snook · Filed Under design corner | Comments Off
I got the opportunity to try out the services of
PSD2HTML. They're one of the larger design slicers around and was interested to see what I would get.
Full disclosure: PSD2HTML advertises on this site and offered up their services in exchange for this review.
I'm always hesitant to outsource work but luckily when it comes to HTML/CSS I've had one or two people that I can rely on. So I was a little nervous to see what kind of code I'd get back from PSD2HTML and how much extra work I'd need to put into it.
The Code
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Blogs are a great way to make money online. However, sometimes the money is made not from direct methods like Google Adsense or affiliate marketing.
Sometimes, all you need a blog for is to grow your personal brand as a guru or an expert and the money comes in many, many other ways.
I’m releasing the theme I use for my work-at-home blog as The Guru Theme so you can use it on your blog too. I basically created space for a bigger blog header, which is necessary if you want to band yourself well.
This simple theme is perfect if: Read more
