Help the American Red Cross in Haiti

We all feel helpless in the face of tragedy. Maybe we can help Haiti a little by supporting the American Red Cross. Here’s...

A New Focus: Niche Blogging

àlaBuzz is my weblog of best blogging information found along my journy through the blogosphere. Travel, as you know, ends up being an educational experience. It is certainly causing my blogging interests to grow and evolve.  So, as nutty as it may seem to suddenly shift direction, àlaBuzz will now focus on niche blogging!...

Testing ePhoto Theme from Elegant Themes at àlaBuzz

I’m currently testing ePhoto Theme from Elegant Themes here at àlaBuzz. The automatic resizing of images is remarkable. You can use an image of any size, and the resulting thumbnails are beautifully cropped without distortion. The challenge for me will be creating a logo. I may have to forgo the àlaBuzz bee logo. (This would hurt deeply.) This theme also houses videos in the slider, so I will be...

Testing Cion WordPress Theme from Elegant Themes at àlaBuzz

It’s time for àlaBuzz to graduate to a new theme. The following WordPress themes are ones I’ve recently used or tested. Right now Cion from Elegant Themes is installed on the site for a test run. ElegantThemes – You get unlimited access to all premium ElegantThemes WordPress themes, plus support, for the extremely reasonable annual fee of $19.99. I recently became a member and am now...

Effective Promotion Wins Design Contest

FresheVenture announced the winners of the Best WordPress Design 2009 on Tuesday. Being a fun, promotional contest, most of the finalists don’t actually have exceptional designs, but they did promote their blogs more effectively. The top blog, WhatAWebsite.com, won with 111 votes. It’s a hodgepodge of nifty plugins and I think it sells domain names – but I’m not sure! The beautiful and luscious...