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6 Free PSD Templates for Blog Design

Ferman — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 19:19:34 +0000

Free PSD templates can really help, if you are running out of time and want to complete some projects. You don’t have to create things again and again, when it’s already there. Here i have collected some high quality PSD templates, which you can change according to your project needs. But before using these free templates do go through the terms of use.

Orange Blog Template Free PSD

Awesome Portfolio PSD File

Godling Template

CoCo – Clean PSD Template

IMDB Film Page Concept PSD

Metro Template PSD

Free Premium Files of December 2011 from Envato

Ferman — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 20:29:35 +0000

I really like ThemeForest themes and when they are giving it for free, can’t resist to download them. Other then ThemeForest more products of Envato are free here. Every month Envato giveaway free files. You can download December’s free premium files but first you have to sign-up, same login details can be used on all products of Evnato.

Please note these files are free for this month only, next month download links will not be available so don’t forget to sing-up and get the items free.

Angelo – Art Template – HTML

Angelo is a unique, classic and elegant HTML5 and CSS3 template initially inspired in the painting The Creation of Adam by Michelangelo.

Distorted Logo Sting

Stylish, distorted logo sting. Quick logo reveler accompanied with beautiful distortion animations.

Warm Night Christmas Card

Complete vector animated and sounded Christmas card with interactive ON-OFF switch. HTML page template with XML custom external music and adjustable multiline textblock with tags and URL link support.

Linear Wood Texture

A free texture file from GraphicRiver.

Flexible Contact Form with Admin Panel

Best and most Flexible Contact Form available. Changing ‘Admin Username’, ‘Admin Password’ and ‘Page Title’ is disabled on the demo version.

Big Ones

This track – just joke. Positive audio for good mood.

20-in-1 Stone Shaders for Cinema4D

This shaders pack contains 20 different stone types shaders.

Green garland with Santa hat and ornaments

Green garland with Santa hat and ornaments on red background.

Fire Flower – Video Tutorial

The video is 1200×900 resolution, so you can see everything that’s going on (preview is widescreen) clearly.

Free Multimedia Related PSD Files

Ferman — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 20:12:26 +0000

Sometimes you don’t have enough time to design small things from scratch, such as DVD disc layout, iPhone, iPod, Plasm TV or Multimedia buttons. Free PSD files of such objects can save your time in completing design projects. Therefor today i have collected free multimedia related PSD files, which include audio/video players, audio/video interface controls, music players and media buttons.

Feel free to download them, i hope these files will save your time in next projects and don’t forget to comment if these files will be of any use.

Equalizer PSD

Blue Audio Player

Simple Slider

Audio/Video Interface Controls

Video Player UI

Dark, Complex Music Player

Dark vPlayer

PSD Media Buttons Set

Free PSD Media Player

Media Player UI: Free PSD Template

Glass Video Playback Buttons

Video Player UI

Sleek Video Player User Interface

BlackUI v1 — Free PSD Source

Digital Music Player

UPrinting Giveaway: Semi Gloss and High Gloss Poster Prints

Ferman — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 16:57:16 +0000

Today UPrinting, for PelFusion readers, is announcing free poster prints. These 18×24 poster prints will be given to 3 people. Winners will be able to choose from either semi gloss or high gloss.

Make sure you visit UPrinting, online printing company, to learn more about their printing services.

Giveaway/Prize Details

- One(1)18″ x 24″ Poster for Three (3) Winners
- Semi Gloss / High Gloss
- Limited to US residents 18 years old and above only.
- Contest Ends Sep 09, 2011

How to Participate

1 – Leave comment with your correct email, so we can contact the winners later on.
2 – Follow UPrinting on Facebook and Twitter (optional)

The winners of the contest will receive free shipping as well, but only in the US.

All-New Crazy Newsletter Templates Written in HTML

Jake Rocheleau — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 13:17:17 +0000

Newsletters can be a great marketing platform for your website’s latest articles. When running any type of blog or community a strong mailing list will keep your members in touch. Weekly messages delivered directly into their inbox can update with the most popular comments or blog posts of the past few days, weeks, or month!

Below I’ve added a few examples of crazy HTML newsletter templates. These have been created by a variety of web designers who offer their products free of charge. There are many styles and topics to choose from, and a professionally designed newsletter template can be a major turning point in attracting a larger e-mail list.

Although these are some of the newest HTML-style templates it’s not an exhaustive list. If you have any suggestions or templates I’ve glossed over feel free to share links in the comments below.

45royale Boutique

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45royale Classic

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45royale Modern

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AWeber Outdoorsy

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AWeber Superfresh

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Collison Old Ornament

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Collison Retro Green

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Collison Retro Stripes

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Elliot Jay Stocks – Elegant

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Elliot Jay Stocks – High Impact

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Elliot Jay Stocks – Typographic

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Fisher Air Mail

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Fisher Clouds

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Fisher Fabric

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Fisher Spring

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Fisher Tech

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Kus Colour Direct

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Kus Eco

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Metalab Cool

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Metalab Cotton Rag

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Newism Classic

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Newism Soft

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Pieters Gridworks

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Pieters Textile

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Awesome Collection of 60 High Quality Free Textures

Ferman — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 10:59:34 +0000

Good texture can really lift up your website and make it more attractive to your visitors. You can get free texture by searching Google, but wait you don’t have to do it, we already have gathered an awesome collection of free textures for you.

This list includes leather textures, dirt and ground textures, wood textures, wall textures, metal and rock textures.

Feel free to comment if you liked the collection.

Leather Textures

Dirt and Ground Textures

Wood Textures

Wall Textures

Metal Textures

Rock Textures

40 Free Web UI Element Kits and Stencils

Ferman — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 14:42:38 +0000

Web designers spent lots of time in making mock ups of web pages, in which they have to use Web UI elements again and again. They can really save time if this Web UI element kits and stencils are already available to them.

In this article we have listed 40 completely free Web UI kits and stencils, which can be used in initial mockup or wireframing. Most of these files are available in .psd, .ai or png format.

1. Free Web UI Element Pack

If you want to optimize applications found on the web UI element, which contains some tools that will help you to achieve more optimal results. Some of the tools that you can use them is Loading Bar, Button, Toggle Button, and also random applications. Some of these tools you can optimize in order to become even easier for you just learning about the user interface.

2. Massive Web UI Button Set

If you see, the button set of elements that we display are several applications and functions of each button, especially for those who want to simplify the user interface itself. The application and view there are several types of buttons that have several different functions, depending on what application you want to use, such as scroll bars, drop down, loading element, the login box, and several interfaces that are very commonly used in a web application, either that form of animation or flash applications.

3. Mac OS X Interface 2

For Apple computer users with the Mac operating system will definitely get more menus and features during the setting of some of these functions. For example, if you want to display a document in order to appear more attractive. Several types of arrangements contained in this feature appears more flexible and easier for you to use, especially those already familiar with the operating system.

4. Flex 3 Stencil

If we look from the display image below, the existing user interface will help you to make arrangements for some applications that will be used. Where each component in the form of buttons and features there are some functions for each sub-button and a separate category which represents the excess of these elements in the web UI. In addition to a more complete feature, this interface also consists of a variety of functions, such as labels, text inputs, hyperlinks, and some other features.

5. Web Page Elements

Often to get the look and interactive web pages, we should be able to customize the look of some components of the web itself, such as font size, font color used, the type fonts available, and some icons that might be needed for your web interface can become more alive . As in several other applications, a feature found on this UI also consists of several key features, such as headings, form elements, content management function, image placeholders, etc.

6. Yahoo Design Stencil Kit

Yahoo stencil is one component of a web “User Interface ” element with a fairly complete, so this application to be one choice of web designers. This is because these applications already available for the OmniGraffle, Visio (XML), Adobe Illustrator (PDF and SVG), and Adobe Photoshop (PNG), so it would be easier for you to make modifications to some web page elements on that interfaces.

7. Eclipse Stencil for OmniGraffle (TM)

As contained in the Flex 3 Stencil, especially in the menus and display provided by the web element, from which most of the more priority to the main menu and are also frequently used applications. Some features are also divided into several categories, such as applications for navigation, title, font size, and also search field. With a view that is quite friendly is expected to be easier for you to perform some functions of setting and grouping of categories.

8. Browser Form Elements PSD

Some browser applications require complementary tools to maximize the function of the browser itself. Supporting applications that are made must be in accordance with the wishes of the user’s browser, not least the use of web elements that can be applied into some type of browser, especially those requiring high security level. This is very useful to anticipate the existence of bugs that often annoy you while browsing on the Internet. It required some element of web applications are secure and easy to use.

9. Open Source Social Software Toolkit

Currently, many existing social networking media on the Internet, such as Facebook, Twitter, Plurk, and several other types of social networking. To build an application like this, then you will be able to create a social networking site that consists of several kinds of navigation and the main function for this kind of site, for example, meet, talk, share, read, work, publish and explore.

10. Free PSD : Check box replacement

Features contained in this web application element serves to build a navigation menu located on the web, especially commercial web application, where there are several buttons with different functions. In more simple, the application is widely used in several menus checkbox that you often encounter, where in general there are only two main functions of a navigation button.

11. Facebook GUI Free PSD Resource

I’m sure you’re familiar with social networking on this one. Because it is so popular that within a few years, this site has become one of the sites with a very large number members of course. To build a nice display, lots of applications and software that you can use in order to look up you become more attractive. One of the applications that you can use is the user interface as shown in the picture below. To get a more customized look, you can try the application “Facebook GUI PSD”, in addition to user-generated display is also very interesting, so I think you must try this application.

12. Omnigraffle Twitter Widget Stencil

Twitter is one of the social networking media with a very simple features but powerful, especially in terms of number of characters you get to write. It is intended that what is presented fairly brief and clear, so readers do not get bored quickly with a text that long. Some widget that supports on this applications such as Twitter Follower button, Follower widgets, and several other applications. To further optimize the appearance of Twitter, you can try some of the many widgets available on the Internet, one of which is the Twitter Widget Stencil.

13. Free Web UI Wireframe Kit

This UI Web Kit it’s also very useful for you if will be great results your Wireframe platform. With completely features and good design and navigation, you can maximise and setting up that tools inside on this. Some button will help you to select which one design that your wishes.

14. OmniGraffle Stencil for Ext JS v3.0

Several types of OmniGraffle stencil can be used to further maximize the number of features that might not yet available. OmniGraffle Stencil for Ext JS v3.0 is one example of Stencil with features that are fairly complete, although there are still some shortcomings, but not too significant, so you can more freely to do some settings on these feature.

15. Web Browser Templates

You’re a designer? Sure’ve often used the Photoshop application. Besides can be used to images editing, this application you can also combine into a browser, especially the template that you will use can be adapted to a form that will be used as a browser application.

16. Photoshp Browser Template

Do you want to change the look of your browser to make it more interesting? Some of the applications you can use as tools to do so. One that you can use from some of the applications is the use of Photoshop Browser feature, where with some menus that exist in this application, you can make some changes, such as address bars, scrollbars, and favicons!

17. Browser Screens and Website Elements

Vector pack is a free application you can use to get the look of a web design that you just created. There are some features that you can use. In addition, you also can quickly make a presentation of the design that you just created it to find out some of the features of your project, whether there is something missing or not.

18. 960 Grid Template for OmniGraffle

Grid templates are generally used to make the mockup design of a website. You can set the template used for applications OmniGraffle easily because this applications is integrated with some tools that you can use. Just with little skill of design, you will be able to produce an attractive web design and looks professional.

19. All In One Web Elements Kit

Are you tried some element of web applications, either free or paid? But often you are having trouble, because the web applications that you have it’s different with another. This is because some features that are not available when you need them. Here you should find other applications as required. To overcome this, currently available some element of web applications with the “All in One” features, so that with this application you do not need to have some web elements.

20. Flex DarkSkin UI

This free Flex UI skin is available for free from psdthemes.com, but you do need to signup first. Once you registered, you can explore fetures from this application. Cool dark appearance theme.

21. Wireframe Symbols

As we all know that with the features found on the wireframe will be easier for a web designer to build a web design project. This is because of some elements contained in a wireframe, such as scroll bars, lists, buttons, tables, tabs, etc. Some applications wireframe is compatible with Illustrator software, so that will really help you that want to use an image with PSD type.

22. Photoshop Button Templates

Do you want to create a web design with some unique navigation buttons inside? The navigation look more attractive because there are using 3 D buttons type. Are you interested to make them? Currently a lot of web elements that are integrated with Photoshop application, where the web is you can be creative elements to create a navigation button that you put on the website with 3 D view. With this application you can create more than thirty types and design of button, from a flat button design and also 3 D button.

23. Windows Vista IE Form Elements

Many browsers you may have tried. Some browsers are already quite popular such as Internet Explorer. Browser from Microsoft are a few changes, both in terms of features used as well as several tools to ensure your security while browsing the Internet. There are many forms in the browser that you can optimize its use, such as pull down menus, input fields, radio buttons, check boxes, and some kind of form that is often used where you can try each of these forms.

24. Windows Vista IE Web Safe Area

If you see some of the browser you have, there are some differences found on that browser. For example, the toolbar that serves to navigate some of the main menu on the browser. You can take a few examples of browsers that have these differences, especially on the save menu. In Windows Vista, especially Internet Explorer browser, on the Web Safe Area, here you can find the resolution used by each browser, such as between Internet Explorer, Firefox, and Opera.

25. Best Practice UX Forms Stencil v1.1

Form stencil is the latest application of some type of web element stencil ever before.Some additional features available on Best Practice Forms Stencil UX v1.1 only serves as an additional feature of the previous version that does not include some features that are very necessary to build a Web element. Also this version Provides different button layouts, a progress indicator, and Also captcha code input field.

26. Web form Elements Vol 1

Web application form is widely used as a means to perform the interaction between web visitors with the owner of the web (admin). Such applications can you meet, especially in some special web for buying and selling, in which the buyer must fill out the form provided. In addition to a special web make buying and selling, application form you can also find on the web that is used as a means to conduct a survey.

27. Illustrator Template for Blueprint CSS Comps

With Illustrator application templates, you can use to create web design that CSS-based . With this application you will be easier to do your work a web design project because this column contain around 24 grids, so some design you can do easily with this feature.

28. Web Element 5

One of the success of a website is an interesting view for visitors. Many ways you can do to make the web a more attractive appearance, some of which is to select the type and layout that will be used, the web element you want to install, web design itself, and several other web elements, such as navigation buttons. In addition, you also have to understand, about what is desired by the visitors on your website, especially if your website as an online store.

29. iPhone GUI Elements

Some iPhone GUI applications can be found easily on the Internet. In general, the features are often used on the iPhone GUI applications very many kinds, but some of your most frequently encountered is the iPhone Status Bar (Gray, Black, Blue), Title Bar Buttons iPhone, iPhone Icon Bar, iPhone Safari Text Box, and still much more.

30. iPhone GUI as Rich Symbols for Fireworks

This iPhone kit has been designed for you that have an smart gadget ( iPhone ) using Adobe Fireworks. if you explore inside on this kit, you can found several combinations, such as buttons, backgrounds, label, etc. It also has some lines of code to transform the simple vector on this symbols into rich symbols, with some variables.

31. Ultimate iPhone Stencil

Do you want your iPhone more attractive appearance and equipped with various advanced features? This Stencil Application will provide flexibility for you to optimize your iPhone. Some of the features you can optimize them are backgrounds, title bars, buttons, selectors, and other iPhone UI elements.

32. Wireframe Magnets (DIY Kit)

These DIY magnet template are based on the Konigi wireframe stencils kit that you can use and there are includes three sheets of elements that would be useful for whiteboard prototyping. Simply download and print the PDFs onto magnet sheets, and cut them out.

33. Web UI Treasure Chest

To make the Web a more attractive appearance, some web designers always use three-dimensional image, such as on some specific web application that contains about design, photo editing, and several web-based design. In addition, another commonly used application is the animation of vector and also the image with the file type PSD. To facilitate the use of some image, some web designers will choose an image that is not too large file size, or if possible, they only use the image with smaller size, or better known by the term “icon”.

34. iPhone 3G Stencil

Basically, an interface application and a standard features on the iPhone is not complete. But as more and more users of the product from apple, at this time we encounter a lot of applications that serves as an additional application on these gadgets. With the application, you can do a lot of exploration and development for several features that are often used. Some of these feature is iPhone 3G Stencil.

35. Quommunnication Stencil Kit

A PSD file with common design elements for sketching and wireframing: form elements, RSS feed icons, colors, Advertising units, browser windows and grids. For beautiful, you can adjust some colors for your design. For this combination of color, you should be match and mix with another.

36. Free PSD Web UI Element

Often you may have difficulties to find a navigation button to install applications on your website. In addition, some button creator does not comply with your wishes. If you’re interested, you can try the following applications that might help you to make some kind of button. There are so many types and also the examples that you can choose the button according to your choice.

37. Banner Web Elements 2

Often the placement of banners on a web design less attention, so the web interface becomes less attractive. Some things you should consider when building a website is how the form of banner that we want to make. Currently, many web element that you can use to make a banner on your website. Some are made using a vector application, both in terms of image and type of file used.

38. Web Frame Kit ( Black and White )

Several types of wire frame that may have you use less than satisfactory in terms of design, appearance, and also features contained therein. Mooze Design could be an option for you to maximize the appearance of web design which you are creating, this is because this application is more focused on the dominance of the existing color.

39. Google Android GUI PSD

Is your smartphone using Google’s Android operating system? This operating system is the latest version of some previous operating systems that already use some GUI-based applications, such as in some existing smartphones, such as Symbian which some time ago had been the trend for the smartphone operating system. Views of the Android GUI is designed to make it easier for users to operate some of the menu on their smartphone.

40. Android 1.6 Wireframe Stencil for Omnigraffle

Several series of Android you can use to develop some applications for page element that found on your smartphones, such as HTC, Nexus one, and others. Page element features is made with use Android latest series, this is because the application is already integrated with the wireframe feature.

40 Free High-Quality Flash Web Templates

Teguh Yulianto — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 19:10:40 +0000

Do you like a style template with flash? Of course you love it, this is because some things, such as your website looks more animate, interesting, and also seem more professional. There are so many flash templates that you can get on the Internet, both free and paid. Which one wills you choice? And if you’re interested in trying some kind of template, there are a few examples of flash templates for you, and it’s free.

1. The Ultimate Museum Site

2. The Boy Scout Green Template

3. The Gray Hotel Template

4. Smartco Business Company

5. Photographer’s Portfolio

6. The Yellow Business Site

7. European Restaurant

8. Auto Company

9. Your Own Band Template

10. Our Wedding Template

11. The Car Dealer Template

12. Business Constructions 2

13. Car Online

14. Books Company 2

15. The Blue Family Page

16. My Brown Personal Site

17. GlaModels

18. Animal Official Site

19. Consulting Group

20. New Collection

21. Corporate Center

22. Global Digital Solutions Online

23. Communication Company

24. Global Business Ideas

25. Online Creative Solutions

26. Super Bike Club

27. Business Corporate

28. Create Your Style

29. Disco Club

30. Fashion Portfolio

31. S-Shape

32. Pure HD Touch

33. Chocolate Website

34. Design Studio

35. Microphone company

36. Movie

37. Elastic

38. Design

39. Studio Design

40. Film

15 Free Dynamic Flash XML Photo Galleries

Ferman — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 19:32:30 +0000

Thanks to internet and resources available that you don’t have to develop anything from scratch. Just search, pick up the best and start working on it. Same is the case with photo galleries there are lots of dynamic Flash XML photo galleries for free. In this web roundup i tried to pick some of the best free Flash photo galleries on the Internet.

Almost all types of animation effects are in these 15 free dynamic Flash XML photo galleries.

1. Free Flash and XML Slideshow Photo Gallery

This is totally free Dynamic Flash Slideshow Photo Gallery. You can easily add, edit or delete images and thumbnails by editing an xml file in Notepad. Creating your own Flash slideshow photo gallery has never been easier!

2. FlashFlickr PhotoGallery

A photogallery made in Flex2/AS3 using Flickr API. This application let users to browse your flickr pictures, see your sets, tags and notes.

3. PhotoDiary 1.0

PhotoDiary 1.0 is a web application developed by Webgriffe which lets you to easily publish a brand new photo blog on the web.

4. Flash Page Flip Photo Gallery template for Picasa

This template is based on the free version of the FlashPageFlip flash engine on www.flashpageflip.com.

5. FlashMo Stack Photo Gallery

Stack Gallery is a flash xml photo gallery that supports HTML CSS in photo description textfield. It can be integrated with any flash template in actionscript 3.

6. WS-Slideshow

A free flash slideshow gallery with vertial thumbnails slider.

7. FlashMo Circle Gallery

Circular thumbnail XML gallery with a mouse wheel scroller using Flash CS3 ActionScript 3.

8. dfGallery 1.0

dfGallery is one of the coolest Galleries currently on the Web.

9. 3D Grip Photo Gallery

3D Grid – Flash Photo Gallery using Papervision3D and XML.

10. SimpleViewer

SimpleViewer is a free, customizable Flash image gallery. It allows you to display your images on any web page in a professional, intuitive and simple way.

11. Tony Photo Album

Tony photo album is elegant and free flash photo gallery.

12. Free Flash Photo Album

Dynamic Picture loading, easy to install and easy to change content. Ability to show up to 1200 images.

13. AutoViewer

AutoViewer is a free, customizable Flash image gallery. AutoViewer is designed to display a linear sequence of images and captions.

14. TiltViewer

TiltViewer is a free, customizable Flash image gallery. TiltViewer is designed to display a sequence of images in tilt view.

15. Polaroid Gallery v.1.01

The script loads images and image titles dynamically from an external xml file or a flickr RSS feed.

14 Features You Need for Your WordPress Theme and Download Free WP Themes

Jovana Sumar — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 11:05:24 +0000

WordPress has become the hottest blogging platform on the market. However, due to the fact that blogging has become such a huge success, having the right features for your blog is paramount to success. To make sure your blog is performing at its best, make sure you have these fifteen features in your blog or WordPress theme.

1. Mobile Site

A mobile site is something most blogs don’t even consider. With more people using their iPhones, Blackberries and other cellphones to access the web, you might be losing a lot of traffic if your site isn’t ‘mobile’ ready. You can either get a custom mobile site developed for your blog or can use a free plugin (http://mobilepress.co.za/) to make sure your blog is WordPress ready.

2. Footer

Footers are generally underused by new bloggers. Don’t let this amazing space go to waste. You can add an assortment of widgets to utilize the space properly. The most popular blogs use their footers to give twitter updates, popular posts, recent comments, about us information. Make sure your footer space is used constructively. Every part of your website should be a call-to-action.

3. Contact Us Page

It sounds silly but you won’t believe the amount of people that don’t have contact pages on their blogs. This is essential if you want to create any type of online networking relationships. You can be missing out on tens of opportunities for people to contact you with ad campaigns, guest blogging requests. Also try and make the contact page a little more ‘esthetic’. The easier and more versatile your contact page, the more people will want to contact you.

4. About Us Page

People connect to people. People trust FACES and STORIES. Even if your About Us page is a small little blurb about how you grew up in the country, that’s fine. Just make sure you humanize your site. Blog readers always like to know who they are getting their content from. You don’t need to have amazing qualifications but your about page can endear your readers to continue to come back.

5. Author Box

If you have multiple people posting on your blog, then it’s essential you have author boxes. This way your blog readers can become intimately acquainted with each of your writers. A author box gives a little information about the writer and what they do.

6. Social Networking

Social networking is one of the most lucrative markets on the internet. Make sure your WordPress block has social networking and social bookmarking enabled on your website. You want people to share your articles so that they can become viral. Once your blog post becomes viral, you’re pretty much set.

7. Popular Posts

Use a popular post plugin to create website users out of your blog readers. Sure, a reader was brought to your site by one specific blog post but would you prefer someone spending two minutes on your website or ten minutes? Advertise yourself and your blog content by installing this plugin. There are quite a few that can be found online but the most popular plugins is Popularity Contest.

8. Related Posts

Keep your readers flicking through your blog by installing a related post plugin. Basically what the plugin does it show off posts that are related or have similar tags to the current article they’re reading. This is an easy way to keep readers longer on your blog. By giving them topics you already know they’re interested in, you can keep on drawing them in by providing new content.

9. Gravatars

One of the best ways to liven up your blog is to install a gravatar plugin into your wordpress theme. This will show any gravatars that people have enabled. It’s the perfect way to spice up your comments. It also creates a sense of community in your blog.

10. Threaded Conversations

Creating a sense of community is important in your blog. For this reason one of the most essential comment plugins is to have threaded comments. This way someone can reply directly to something someone else has said. If you don’t have threaded conversations, it can be slightly more difficult for your readers to keep track of conversations. Which in turn, will make them leave your blog quicker.

11. Subscribe to Comments

People want to know that their comments and voice are being heard. We’re also curious by nature. If I comment on a blog post I’m interested in, I’d generally like to see if someone had an opinion on it. Sometimes we’re lazy though and we won’t go back. Unless we have a reminder. This is were the plugin subscribe to comments comes in. People will have the opportunity to subscribe to comments so they can get updates every time someone posts. Perfect to get repeat traffic.

12. Subscribe! Subscribe! Subscribe!

Make sure that your RSS feed is available at least three times on your blog. People use RSS feeds to get all of their blog posts directly to their email or RSS account. To get back links and more traffic to your blog, you can also submit the RSS feeds to certain directories.

13. Clear Navigation!

Clear navigation is essential to your website. Make sure that people can easily get to where they want to on your site. Don’t give them too many options. You should try and keep the categories to your blog to a maximum of ten. You can have subcategories within these categories but try not to over do it. Remember, in the blogging realm simple is best.

14. Advertising Space

Make sure you make some money off your hard work. Every blog should have between six to eight advertising spaces you can use to sell to prospective buyers. This is a quick and easy way to make more money while doing something you’re passionate about.