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My Name is Lisa and I'm a Design-a-holic (Hiiii Liiiiisssaa!)

 

Blog design is an ever-evolving practice, and I'm hoping to use this lens (thanks Squido!) to document, bookmark and make notes on some of my favorite resources, practices and inspirations. I'm Lisa Sabin-Wilson and I design blogs.  It's what I do, and have been doing for the past 5 years. 

WordPress for Dummies 

Back in November of '06, I was approached by Wiley Publishing and asked to write the official "WordPress for Dummies" book. I was really excited to be asked to write the book. I've been working with, and using WordPress, since the day it hit the web - and its a tool I'm pretty passionate about.

WordPress has allowed me to run 2 business sites with relative ease - being so easy to use means that I could concentrate more on my clients than on updating my own site, which is very cool. I come from the old school of web design - I used to hand code all of my webpages in HTML, using NotePad. Anytime I needed to make an update or change to the site - I'd open up the file, manually insert the changes... save it, upload and publish it. It was a pretty time consuming process when you're running a busy website that you want to keep updated with relevant and current content.

I've watched as many of my clients - both my design clients, and my hosting clients, use WordPress to achieve the same great results with their websites. So, yea - you could say I'm a big fan.

What I need now? A "Writing a Dummies Book for Dummies" Heh! I'm 3.5 months into this project and its about 1/3 of the way done and I've learned a valuable lesson: Just because you know the topic well - doesn't mean that writing the book will come easy!

The first 2-3 chapters didn't come so easy - but now that I'm on Chapters 7-10... it's flowing a bit better than it was in the begining. I never thought I'd be writing a book about anything, really - but I'm really glad to be involved in this project and, at this point, cannot wait until publishing day!

It's scheduled for release in July 2007 - wish me luck!

Favorite Blog Design Resources 

From CSS to Web Standards to Graphic Design

Helfup and informative resources I use and would like to share.

WordPress For Dummies (For Dummies (Computer/Tech))

Amazon Price: $16.49 (as of 12/05/2008) Buy Now

The Art and Science of CSS

Amazon Price: $26.37 (as of 12/05/2008) Buy Now

Don't Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability, 2nd Edition

Amazon Price: $26.40 (as of 12/05/2008) Buy Now

Blog Design Link List 

Some references, resources and inspirations

E.Webscapes Blog Design and Development Studio
My own design and development studio.
Blogs About Hosting
I own and operate a hosting service with a focus on blogs and bloggers.
Just A Girl
My personal blog where I blog about design, web standards, blog design, photography and my life, in general.
Blog Image Host
Don't know where to host those images? Free Photo, Image and Graphic hosting can be found here - great service for Blogspot, MySpace, Ebay and Discussion Board users.
Blog Design Solutions
Just as the title says - a blog about blog design solutions. Discussion on various blogging platforms, practices, tools, tips and resources.

E.Webscapes Design Blog Feed 

The feed from the design blog at E.Webscapes.com

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Lisa's Blog | Design, Life, Culture, Whatever.. 

Posts on blog design

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Blog Design Solutions 

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About LSabin

I own E.Webscapes Design Studio, LLC and Blogs About Hosting - both services very focused on blogs and the bloggers who write them.

I'm also the author of WordPress for Dummies due to be released in summer of 07.

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