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Great suggestions on the site. I found several sites that were similar. Its kind of funny because I cant remember hearing about Wordpress prior to this class.

10 ways to improve your wordpress blog.

10 easy ways to improve the SEO of your blog. Definitely USEFUL for any BLOG!

This one is great if you are concenred about improving your hits...it tells you tricks and keywords to list. If you are wanting to make and business out of this and attract advertisers this one is for you.

Design Basics: Contrast To Stand Apart And Call Attention | Van SEO Design

Really explains contrast thoroughly. Uses the same example to show how to change the contrast of the page. Adding things to certain parts of the pages can bring out certain elements and show contrast.

Although this website is giving tips to an audience hoping to increase their blog's popularity, members of the TWC class may also find some of these tips helpful. There are several strategies mentioned that will make the WordPress blogs that are constantly used in this course to be easier to read, more organized, and more inviting to the intended audience.

Great information about increasing your blog traffic.  Search Engine Optimization!!!

Web Design

I thought this webpage was useful because it took a poorly designed page and showed how to improve it with alignment. I liked that it took you step by step to what was done to improve the design using alignment on different elements of the page.

This site is good because list ten ways to improve a blog and gives each a description of how to do it.

This website explains how to use images correctly in your web pages/blogs. It is very in depth because it talks about using images from sites like Deviant Art and Flickr creative commons.

Good tips on how to speed up load time for blog.

This site gives 14 plugins that can help make your blog better.

I like this article because it lists helpful plugins that will make your blogging experience much easier. 

ways to improve WP, the navigation suggestions are good for wp.com users since navigation is one of the most important aspects of getting around a site and finding what you want

D#6, HW#6-- I really enjoyed this website for many different reasons. Firstly, for the way t is set up. It is easy to read and enjoyable. They have a main bullet point to look at, and then list and shortly describe different aspects of that bullet point. Also, it covers just about every aspect from design, to performance, to even security. It has a lot of great information!

I like this article because it gives an endless amount of possibilities on how to improve your blog. This article features ideas that will suit any blog. 

One of the reasons WordPress is so popular is because of its flexibility. Designers, developers, and bloggers have plenty of options. In this post we'll look at a combination of tutorials for improving a WordPress-based site, and plugins that can provide added functionality that will bring new possibilities. Tutorials: Build a Featured Posts Section for WordPress Magazine themes are becoming increasingly popular. There are plenty of quality premium themes available, and also some decent free magazine themes, but you may want to build or customize your own. This tutorial covers the process of coding the index.php file to set up a magazine-style front page with a featured post section. - if you're willing to download all the plugins that are available from this site, you can really have the wordpress site look awesome and provide a lot more options.

This page has it all! Aside from just telling an explaining what we can do it provides screenshots so we get an idea of the "trick" to see is we might want it. This offers help anywhere from blog rolls to navigation to addding sideshows and tabs to your page. VERY resourceful.

This article is good because it provides tutorials on how to improve your blog.  For example, there are descent free magazines themes or you can build your own.  Also it gives techniques for seo and plug ins.  

My favorite of my choices for the week. This is a great step by step guide with examples and reinforcement of the weekly chapter in the text. The writer definitely knows how to teach the audience the how to of alignment.

example of good layout alignment, use of gridlines.

A page on teaching what design flow is and how it works. Teaches you how to keep the reader's eye and make them follow the 'flow'.

This is a good website to help you understand what flow is and the different types of flow. It talks about verbal flow and visual flow. It also goes on to explain how to improve your verbal flow and your visual flow.

This webpage incorporates more details about many key aspects of flow that were also mentioned in chapter seven. There are tips to improving visual and verbal flow within a page and also how to add flow across an entire site involving many pages.

This website goes over and adds to some important concepts already covered in chapter 6 of the text. Added to some ideas about repetition different ways to use it and how to create it in text and images. Repetition is key to creating unity and consistency in design which is important when trying to grasp a readers attention.

D#6, HW#1-- I liked this website because I have also used it a previous time for balance, so it helps when they continue one from where you were left off. It gives you the chance to see the document being used go through a complete transformation with all of the design elements. They discuss repeating colors and fonts, and then discuss about repeating aesthetics.

An awesome website which goes into great depth about the importance of having a concept and how to create your concept based on your audience.

Should be visually appealing and set up a mood. The design should make you smile or craving the new item on Starbucks' menu.

I felt like this page had some great visuals and definitions of what balance is. I love how they describe that colors can actually "weigh" more than others. I like that they offered new terms like radial balance and mosaic balance (chaotic balance). They gave examples of every concept that they talked about and in a wide range of designs. The writer also does a silly example of making a formula for balance.

Here is a more general article about balance. It uses physical balance as an example to help explain what balance in design is using both the vertical and horizonal axis. The article discusses visual weight in design elements, explaining how each element can effect balance. It also addresses the types of balance: symmetrical, asymmetrical, radial, and mosaic balance.

Here we can learn various tips on the organization of blogs. Also we can learn on how to edit some posts and make them more appealing to the reader.