Wow, time flies! Unique Blog Designs is turning 5-years old on August 22nd! It was only five years ago that we launched UBD with the redesign of John Chow dot Com. In that time period, John Chow went from ~7000 blog subscribers to more than 200,000 subscribers now. Talk about an improvement in readership! 25% Off Sale Celebration To celebrate our birthday, we’re having a … Continue reading
Here at UBD, we build a TON of sites and blogs that require custom/unique logos. Considering that, we figured we should put out some great info on how to tackle this step in your business’ development. Plain and simple – logo creation is not that easy (and really not that cheap). Hiring a premium-level firm like UBD or an e-famous independent artist can run up … Continue reading
One of the most common questions we get asked, is “How do I use your WordPress Themes with the WordPress Theme I already have installed?” There is actually a very easy method of doing this and it is crucial to successfully using WordPress themes to market your business online. To install multiple themes, you need multiple installations of WordPress. Our recommendation is to install WordPress … Continue reading
Facebook is the #2 most visited website in the U.S. When you create a Facebook Fan Page, you are pitching your blog to a potential audience of 400 million active users. Here are some facts you should consider: 20 million people become fan pages everyday. There are over 5.3 billion Facebook fans overall. The typical user becomes a fan of 4 pages per month. With … Continue reading
Have you ever had to deal with a poorly managed hosting provider? The kind that has your servers crashing, or maybe even causing you to lose data? Losing data (your blog posts and design) is a nightmare that many bloggers have. Commonly, servers will crash in mid-step when making changes to your blog. This will undoubtedly cause you, or your webmaster, to have a throbbing … Continue reading
Unique Blog Designs is now on Twitter! Follow us today! Although the UBD team has been on Twitter for quite a while now, we hadn’t setup a company account until now. We have a lot of exciting things planned for 2009 that will definitely surprise you! In Q1 2009, we have something very special to show you and we will be announcing it first on … Continue reading
At UBD, we work with a wide range of bloggers. Everyone from top 100 bloggers like John Chow and Jeremy Schoemaker to bloggers who haven’t even written their first blog post yet. Whenever we come across a valuable resource for new bloggers, we like to pass it on. Our good friend and blogging mentor, Yaro Starak, has released the free Roadmap Report – which is … Continue reading
Twitter is all the rage these days and I have to admit that I am a HUGE fan! I have seen great results with increasing traffic to my personal blog as well as the UBD blog. Tweeting has proven itself to be an incredibly useful and important tool for communication, rivaling both instant messaging and blogging. In fact, it’s almost a mixture of the two. … Continue reading
Welcome to the first weekly UBD Podcast! I recently had a chance to sit down and talk about copywriting for blogs with Allison Nazarian. Allison is the founder of Get It In Writing. Her business provides copywriting services, among other things, to bloggers! She also writes on her personal blog AllisonNazarian.com Allison has worked, written and consulted for hundreds of publications and organizations, including Bloomberg … Continue reading
Have you ever visited a blog or website that had a poorly chosen color scheme? I can’t tell you how many I’ve seen over the years… When we do consultations with our clients, prior to starting the design, colors are always a paramount piece of information that we must have. Choosing a color palette for your design can be a daunting task. Not everyone has … Continue reading
