Caffination’s Blog Design Basics

Caffination’s Blog Design Basics

A while back I started a series of articles with the intent of bringing the basics of graphic design to the masses.   I started with the premise that good design concepts should be accessible to everyone. It doesn’t matter if you are an artist, an accountant or...
Blog Design Guide: Copywriting Focus

Blog Design Guide: Copywriting Focus

How would you like to read about my cats? I have two of them… What! Not interested? There’s a reason for that. Despite their utter cuteness and ferocious attacks on my ankles this isn’t a site about cats, this is a site dedicated to Coffee, Caffeine...
Blog Design Guide: Backups

Blog Design Guide: Backups

This is a short and simple post, consider it a best practices for blogging and website management in general. Back up all of your article and your uploads very frequently. The best looking design in the world doesn’t mean anything if your carefully tweaked theme...
Blog Design Guide: Visual Accessibility

Blog Design Guide: Visual Accessibility

Everyone wants their content to be accessible to as many people as possible, why not change the way you do things slightly to open your blog up to a whole different audience?   It isn’t that hard, a few minor tweaks. Blogs are an inherently visual media, from...
Blog Design Guide: Copy-Writing form

Blog Design Guide: Copy-Writing form

So you think you’re all set now that your blog is up, laid out and designed. Well you still do need to put some stuff up there for people to read. This isn’t about writing for SEO, writing for awards or writing for fun. This is about writing to inform. You...