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Where to Find Free Templates That Are Not Actually Malware
A colleague once installed a free template that quietly injected hidden links into every page of her blog, discovered only when...
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Free Resources
A colleague once installed a free template that quietly injected hidden links into every page of her blog, discovered only when...
SEO for Bloggers
I switched a test blog from a heavily animated template to a plain, fast one and watched the average time readers spent on the...
SEO for Bloggers
I audited a friend's year old blog recently and found the meta description field empty on every single post, a full year of...
Blog Design
A client once asked me to make her blog look cleaner, and when I stripped out everything she pointed to as clutter, the result...
Blog Design
A reader once messaged me confused about a layout issue I could not reproduce at all, until I realized she was on a specific...
Customizing Templates
I lost a functioning blog design once, not from a bad customization, but from switching themes entirely without realizing...