Are social media just for saying, “Look what I’m doing! See what exciting place I’m visiting! Don’t forget about me!”?Much of this is so very uninteresting. I just don’t care. But a simple shift and things start to attract my interest. Stop talking about yourself and talk about other people.I’m…

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Running a blog is no easy task and finding time to build links can seem impossible. Luckily, like most things with WordPress, there are plugins to make your life easier. The following plugins are designed to help you more efficiently build both internal and external links throughout your blog.Let me…

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WordCamp Detroit Conference offers WorPress boot camp for entrepreneurs and enthusiasts.

Saturday and Sunday October 9th and 10th are the dates for the Detroit areas first WordCamp. This exciting new conference, held at the Novi’s The Rock Financial Showplace, will showcase both local experts and talent from around the country. Sessions include all key aspects to creating a website or blog in WordPress. It starts with an introductory application, moves into choosing themes for websites and blogs, finding affordable plugins to extend your site’s functionality, search engine optimization, social media and more. The conference has …read more

Some More Helpful Tutorials from DESIGNM.AG

Navigation is an important part of web design from a usability perspective. However, links and navigation menus also provide opportunities to improve the visual appearance of the site, or to add some interesting effects. If you’re looking to create a navigation menu that stands out from the crowd, jQuery provides plenty of options. In this post we’ll feature 25 tutorials that will show you how to jQuery and CSS to create some interesting effects.

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