The most frequent question I hear from bloggers is that they wish they could design their blog. I know a lot of you download the freebie themes that looks similar to what you are looking for but to me that isn’t enough. I want more! I want full control of how things shows up on my site.

Want to enhance your blog’s search functionality and potentially make money doing it? You can do that by integrating Google Custom Search to your blog. This tutorial will show you how to display the results of the search back into your template.

I am always experimenting new ways on how to style my templates so they don’t have the “WordPress Blog Feel” and a great way to start is change the default vertical navigation and make it horizontal.

Building custom widget is a great way to give your site a one off feel. You insert it anywhere in your template, apply specific class to the widget, insert ad codes inside the body of your text, and so forth. I like to avoid plug-ins because I don’t want to rely on it if I ever have to move the site but sometimes it is quicker to use a plug-in than implement a simple function but tricky code into your layout. I rather spend my time writing these articles. Time is money!!

Did you just switch over to Mac from PC? The hardest part of the transition is finding software similar to your PC. After many hours of researching, trial and error I have came up with list of valuable software.