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A whole site dedicated to using Wordpress! There are so many themes that it's incredibly difficult to choose!  This site suggests going through the various view options, such as the front page view, single page view, and the comments, and them comparing how each appear. Is the sidebar present in all views or just some? Does the header change, etc.? The author of this site suggests going through and investigating every aspect of the new theme. The site also lists the various layout options and also suggests that content match theme. What impression do I wish my audience to have?

Here are some more themes--Wordpress' selection is pretty limited. Seems like a lot of people just end up using the same themes, and I think it's important to make your blog unique! (Of course, I should probably take my own advice and use one of these...).

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.  

I thought this was a good find. I was looking for a new theme and this site seemed to influence me in such that I would be choosing a top theme, so I did.

10 Tips to Improve Your WordPress Blog

This is a website that gives us 10 tips on making out WordPress blog better. It shows me many different things that I didn't even know I could do to my blog.

This was a helpful website because it provided tips on improving the theme of the blog. It also provided codes such as for adding multiple widgets. I thought this was helpful because our homework asks us to add widgets.

How to create your own wordpress theme from scratch. Good for the really picky person who knows exactly what they want. Should be useful when combining with other tutorials on design.

Using a photo based design. This looks awesome, and like a lot of work. I want this, though I might have to think a while on what my photo theme might be. Knitting just doesn't seem appropriate.

D#6, HW#6-- The major part I like about wordpress is the ability to design the page the way you would like whether it be with themes or by writing the html yourself. This website is great because it gives you a lot of different and ideas about wordpress and how to use it. It explains the information and then also shows you pictures/examples.

Alright I know we're only suppose to share two sites to the group but I found a third one that applies to our blogs unlike my last post. This article describes so many ways between choosing your theme, going with your gut, knowing your audience, and so much more. Overall my favorite article I found.

This is a good website on how you can design your wordpress with different animation and gives you tips on how to improve your blog.  This is a good website because it provides a lot of themes that I personally haven't seen before.  

Teaches you how to customize wordpress with different themes and plugins.

I stumbled onto this website when searching for templates with balanced themes, I typed this into google because I will use this website in the near future for creating presentations. I may even use it for this class sometime!

This site offers different how-to's, themes, and design tips.

D#4 HW#4

Website to help improve sidebars on Wordpress Blog

This is a site that gives you tutorials on how to build on your blog. It shows you how to pick a theme, use sidebars, etc.

This a great video for those that are not to savyin the whole geting the theme or the widgits all in there place it a great way to see what word press has in stored

This is a website for a Doggy Daycare company based in NJ.

This is one of my favorite websites. The design is unique and interesting. I find the emphasis is on showing a "cool" or "hip" factor to the facility. The overall design of the site is a good example of easy to follow alignment of information. The overall theme is repeated throughout the homepage and the rest of the site. The theme is of a trendy retro style bar. It makes you think your dog will chill at a place like this.

This is a good resource that will help you create and customize a theme, create template and teaches how to write a simple wordpress pluggin.

This is my favorite of all, this website teaches how to select the perfect theme and publish your blog to the world. I like this website because it teaches step by step for a beginner to understand.

This website is GREAT on how to personalize your Wordpress blog. It shows you how to completely personalize your website by changing the theme, adding widgets, and changing colors.