5 Guaranteed Ways to Make Your Web Designer Melt like Butter

Hiring a Web DesignerEvery designer dreams of the perfect client.  Someone who’s open, but knows what they want.  Opinionated, but not high-strung.  Persistent but not persnickety.  If working with your designer is causing you endless headaches and grief, try these approaches instead.  I guarantee you’ll get a much better response and a much nicer result!

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Trouble Deciding Who to Follow on Twitter?

I recently got accepted as a writer on Technorati, and my first article went live today – so I wanted to make sure I shared it with fellow readers and subscribers, since these tools make for a much easier, saner presence on Twitter.

Trouble Deciding Who to Follow on Twitter? These Tools and Apps Make it Easy

If you enjoy it, make sure to give it a “Like”, a Digg or a Tweet!

5 Free Grunge WordPress Themes (You’ve Probably Never Seen)

Free Grunge themes for WordPressGrunge WordPress themes continue to be highly popular with bloggers who aim for a unique look that doesn’t conform to “the norm”.  Still, most WordPress grunge themes focus on too much on the distress and dirt, and too little on good usability and easy to read content.

Fortunately, I’ve found five WordPress themes that do a good job of presenting your posts in a way that’s easy to follow, without giving up that rough-around-the-edges design.

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Do You Have a Digital Business Card?

Instead of wasting time printing out business cards, only to have them stuffed in someone’s pocket (to unknowingly be washed later), or tossed in a Rolodex (does anyone still use those?) – what if you could simply give out a URL with an interactive business card?

Digital business card themes and services are becoming increasingly popular – particularly for people who hang out on social networks more than they blog.

Here are just a few of the many digital business card themes and sites out there – most are free or very inexpensive.

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Check Username Availability on Social Networking Sites with KnowEm

Knowem - Check username availability on social networking sitesOne of the best ways to generate traffic to your website is to have a consistent username across several social media sites.  But how do you know if your username is taken or not? 

Enter KnowEm, a service that will not only tell you if your desired username is taken or not, but will optionally register it for you (and create profiles on multiple sites).  Here’s how it works:

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