Archive for 'Design'
Recommended Places to Buy WordPress Premium Themes
Posted on 25. Jan, 2012 by Aaron Manfull.
Tweet In a previous post I looked at five reasons premium themes were better than their free alternatives. Today, I want to give you a few places to go to where I and others have had success with finding premium WordPress themes. The four places I’ve used quite a bit and had success with are: [...]
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You can use Indesign CS 5.5 to make Interactive buttons. Here’s a tutorial to show you how.
Posted on 16. Jan, 2012 by Kelsey Bell.
Tweet Your device may be unable to display the content above. Adobe Flash is required. The interactive side of Indesign CS5.5 is a great way for print designers to explore the world of interactive web design using a program they’re already familiar with. In this tutorial, I will show you how to transform something you’ve [...]
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Premium v. Free WordPress Themes: 5 Reasons to Go With a Premium One
Posted on 12. Jan, 2012 by Aaron Manfull.
Tweet While premium WordPress themes are one more expense for staffs moving online, they are generally investments that are well worth the money spent. WordPress makes it very easy to change the look and feel of your site. With just a couple clicks on the backend of WordPress you can present your site in a [...]
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Chris Snider’s 25+ Best WordPress Themes for Newspapers and Magazines
Posted on 28. Dec, 2011 by Aaron Manfull.
Tweet Looking to start a WordPress site or looking to redesign the one you currently have? Chris Snider, an instructor of practice in multimedia journalism at Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa, has compiled more than 25 different news themes you might want to take a look at on his blog. Combine his post with [...]
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[Presentation] Moving Online Parts 1&2 From JEA/NSPA Convention
Posted on 30. Nov, 2011 by Aaron Manfull.
Tweet Here are the two presentations given by Aaron Manfull (@manfull) and Jim Streisel (@carmeljim) during the 2011 JEA/NSPA Fall National Journalism Convention in Minneapolis. The presentations deal with tips for moving a program online (Part 1) and then executing it effectively (Part 2). If you have questions about the content of the presentation, feel [...]
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WordPress v. Drupal: Two helpful journalism focused articles on Poynter
Posted on 05. Oct, 2011 by Aaron Manfull.
Tweet Poynter posted two articles in September from Meg Heckman and Allan Hoffman that looked at the Drupal v. WordPress CMS debate. The nice thing here is that both of these articles are written with news organizations in mind. They are two good reads if you’re looking to make the online jump, or considering making [...]
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SNDSTL Takeaways: A list of links to keep you busy for awhile
Posted on 03. Oct, 2011 by Aaron Manfull.
Tweet I’m going to be honest here, this is going to be a mess of a post. I just came off of a three-day brain buffet at the SND conference in St. Louis and I’m still trying to make sense of everything that I saw and heard. It should give me post material on this site [...]
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We’ve Posted Our “Guide to Moving Online”
Posted on 31. Aug, 2011 by Aaron Manfull.
Tweet After more than 300 posts to the site, we decided it was time to compile some of them into a guide to help advisers and staffs with their journeys online. So, we created a “Guide to Moving Online.” You will find everything from Planning and Social Media to Comment and Publicity advice. The committee [...]
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Build your own web design or individualize your WordPress or content management theme
Posted on 04. Jul, 2011 by Michelle Harmon.
Tweet After taking a weeklong seminar on web development with Dave Stanton and Sara Quinn at the Poynter Institute this summer in St. Petersburg, Fla., my brain was exploding with the amount of organization, detail, and knowledge web designers need. I came home from the seminar both empowered and discouraged—empowered because I am now armed [...]
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