Great Resources to Discover & Check Out This Week
Over the past week, I’ve discovered quite a bit of resources and inspiration sourcesf that I’m sure you’ll also find interesting. If you want to share this link with others, please do so, otherwise explore and continue sharing the articles below.
10 More Beautiful Websites Using WordPrses as a CMS
This article shows how versatile WordPress really is, also showing some popular design trends.
WordPress Overwhelms TypePad in Reader Vote
87% of users prefer WordPress compared to TypePad, and just 4% think there is only a small difference between the two platforms.
20 Best WordPress Typography Plugins to Enhance Readability
Control your typography for the best readability within WordPress. There are plenty of resources included.
18 Alternative Ways to Use WordPress
Even more great uses of WordPress, ideal for people who thought that WordPress was limited to “just” blogs – it can be used within e-Commerce sites, for wikis, and portfolios, to name just a few of them.
A look behind the scenes of a design process for a corporate/business web design using WordPress as a content management system (CMS).
Twitter Founders: From “Stupid” Idea to Possible IPO
Building a company that may appear stupid to you won’t be stupid to the millions of people who will soon be using it.
100 Ways to Find Ideas for Your Blog Posts
Even more great ways to find ideas for your blog posts, ideal if you are suffering from any version of “writer’s block”
Blog Promotion: 169 New Ways to Build Traffic Like a Ninja
More specific than one of my recent posts, but great for people who need some more tips and advice on where to begin.
Show Your Favorite Tweets with WordPress
A “basic” tutorial that can be implemented within your sidebar to display your favorite tweets.
20 Reasons Why You Should Blog Before You Twitter
Twitter will lead to some people that begin using Twitter, but even more people that have already started blogs are discovering it for the marketing/connecting benefits.
Mark Zuckerberg on How to Build Backer Culture Inside a Company
Great advice from someone who helped start one of the most popular (and modestly/soon-to-be profitable) sites on the web, and “get judged not by how you look but by what you build.”
50 Most Influential Bloggers of 2009
Great people to follow on Twitter, even better if you have just begun using Twitter.
Blogging is Dead, Long Live Journalism
Blogging is so diverse that you can either be writing about your daily life or dissecting real-time stories and news. Therefore, the article writer calls them “online journalists.”
Conclusion - Thanks for reading the article – leave your thoughts about any of the articles and whether you want to see more articles like this in the comments area below.
Thanks for the excellent list, especially I am thankful for the typography plugins. Let me see if there are interesting plugin for my blog
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Thanks for the comment. I will try to provide more resources like this in the future for bloggers/WP users.
what is the advantage on using Word Press than blogger? any nice feature that Word Press have ?
On the themes front, there are many more free and premium themes available, which allow you to take your site to a whole new level there. The plugins system allows you to expand and customize your site any way you want.
If you want to increase readership or profit, converting your site to WordPress is one of the best ways to do this. However, Blogger does have some great features which allow anyone to blog (especially for free). if you are satisfied with what Blogger provides, there really isn’t a reason to go to WordPress if you don’t want to deal with the conversion/knowledge process.