In the past few weeks, I’ve been flooded with requests for design help from bloggers who have hired “web designers” who had no idea what they were doing. Apparently there are several bloggers who have decided to offer design services, even though they don’t have the necessary skills or even any experience with web.

  Just a quick note to let you know that I’ve partnered with Beautiful Giveaways to give someone a complete blog makover, including setup of a brand new blog if needed. The grand prize is worth over $500! If you’d like to enter, visit the giveaway page and tell me why you want to win!.

  Yesterday I came across a new blog and wanted to contact the owner. Imagine my surprise when, after about ten minutes of searching, I realized that there was no possible way to get in touch with him other than leaving a public comment on one of his posts. I tweeted about it, only to find.

    Several people have asked me how to create progress bars for their blogs. You can use a progress bar to track income (like mine above), debt payoff, weight loss, or anything else you want to monitor. There are several plugins for WordPress that will create progress bar widgets for your sidebar, but I.