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Sunday is the day for giving recognition to great posts made by other bloggers. Please try to visit each post. Let’s show these authors our appreciation .

• BlueJar - How To Buy A WordPress Theme

Coded theme or non-coded theme

This can mean different things to different people. Ask questions! Ask them exactly what they coded and if they don’t know the answer, good chance you will need to be modifying that section yourself.

• Bush Mackel - Start Blogging Series (Part 5) - The Finale!

However, there seems to be a basic consensus in the blogosphere that an impersonal style of writing works best. After all, who wants to be reading sites that look like the books we read in school?

• InstaBloke - Anatomy Of A Successful Blog: 10 Design Tips That Will Take Your Blog To The Next Level

Make your borrowed template your own. There is no such thing as a completely original template. All are variations of a theme one way or another so you don’t have to start from scratch.

The most important place to start with is your top banner because that is the first thing your readers will see.

• Business Blogger - Blog RSS Promotion - In 30 Minutes

If you need to promote your RSS feed quickly, this is the list for you. This is not meant to be the definitive list of ways to promote your feed, but it just may be the quickest list you’ll ever go through.

• Christy’s Coffee Break - The Power Of Comments - 3 Part Series

Keep your writing simple. Did you know that newspaper articles are written based on a grade seven reading level? You may be so busy trying to impress people with your fancy writing skills that you are actually intimidating potential readers. Remember to make your blog posts an easy reading experience.

• AdSense Tracker - Why Blog?

Millions of people seem to want to blog, literally, millions. An entire cottage industry has blossomed from this widespread desire. Yet, think of how many blogs you’ve surfed through that had only five or six posts, or even fewer, with nothing added in the last week or month.

• The 15 Minute Dating Blog - Have You Ever Googled Your Date?

Internet search has totally changed the dating scene. In traditional dating you find out about the person that you are dating by spending time with him/her, and perhaps even through friends or families. Nowdays with our good friend google you can find out more than you want to know about who you are dating within a couple of minutes.

• Manila Mom - A Mom’s Bragging Rights: Our Youngest Daughter

She began painting by herself, using ordinary crayons and watercolor. When we noticed that it was something that really engrossed her for several hours each day, we gave her access to my collection of art books and bought her a variety of media - acrylic paint, professional watercolors, oil pastel, watercolor paper, paper for acrylic paint, some small mounted canvasses - to do with as she pleased. The results amazed us.

• Essential Keystrokes - Essential Tools For Data Backup

Scenario #4: You bought a new laptop and want to convert your old PC to it, both data and applications.

What to do: Acronis True Image 9.1 Workstation with Acronis Universal Restore. (The latter restores to different hardware) Prevents from having to reinstall all the critical apps over again. This is very handy if you don’t have (**cough cough**) your original CD and license keys handy.

• Sizlopedia - 5 Easy Methods To Capture Images Of Web Pages

Whether you are a simple web developer or a creative blogger, in either cases you need to capture and post website screenshots in order to fulfill different tasks. There a lot of methods to take partial/full screenshots of a website but yet I have seen no one discuss this in detail even though it can be of great use.

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