3 Ways to Make Your Site More Visually Appealing


You know this is true. Our whole life can be written down into a story or blog. Writing down our thoughts, and opinions about the people that we meet on a daily basis. The things that we do with our family or anything else in the world. Everyone has an opinion and voicing those opinions may help other’s get through some of the same problems that we have experienced at one point in our life.

Writing takes imagination, and thoughts throughout your life you have obstacles, and other issues that may arise and disrupt your thought patterns. Eventually, things work themselves out and you are back in the habit of writing about the things in your life. Making sure that you keep the reader’s interest with the information that you post on your blog. You do not want to be too open about things in your life however, some of the funniest things that have happened in your life can be part of a wonderful post. Maybe you have learned something from someone that you work with. Maybe, you have learned something from the customer’s that you serve on a daily basis.

Giving people advice about things that you have accomplished in your life could lead people to using the same advice in their life. You also need to make time in your life to keep the reader’s that you have established within your blog. Without updating your site you will lose some of the reader’s because they will find a blog with current and up-to-date information. It needs to be something that you know a lot about instead of winging it with mindless babbling.

WordPress.com News

You guys use WordPress.com in all sorts of creative ways, documenting the adventures you take…

…the people you meet…

…the characters you create…

…the meals you prepare…

…and the places you live.

And you share a ton of amazing photographs. So be sure to show them off! Here are three tips on using photos to make your site more visually appealing:

  • Upload your very own custom header image to give your site a unique look and feel. Some themes even allow you to use featured images to display different header images on specific posts and pages. For a design that’s 100% unique to you, try out the Custom Design upgrade.
  • Don’t make readers squint to view your photos. Generally speaking, bigger photos are better, as long as they’re properly aligned. Check out the Get Flashy tutorial on Learn.WordPress.com for tips on aligning and resizing your images.
  • If the majority…

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New partnership could produce a 3D printer that prints objects 500 times faster and 10 times larger


Technology at it’s finest! It is truly amazing that the technology is moving faster than anything else.

Gigaom

3D printing is slow; so slow that printing an object several feet long is an arduous task that can take days. As a result, most 3D printers are tailored to printing small objects that take a few hours at most.

That could change for industrial-sized printers after the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory and machine tool manufacturer Cincinnati Incorporated signed an agreement this month, 3Dprint.com reported today. The partnership will focus on creating a 3D printer capable of printing objects at 200-500 times the speed and 10 times the size of most current printers.

ORNL and Cincinnati Inc. will build the printer by adapting an existing Cincinati Inc. laser cutting machine to include 3D printing hardware. Instead of relying on spools of string-like plastic, it will rely on pellets of an unnamed polymer.

Pellets are both a cheaper and more flexible source of “ink” for a 3D…

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Love Is…A Valentine’s Day Roundup


You are a wonderful blogger. I really enjoyed reading this blog. You can see love in every shape and size.

WordPress.com News

Love…it comes in different shapes and sizes, and means so many things to so many people. On this auspicious day we wanted to show our love for the myriad ways you express love on WordPress.com.

Versed in love

We were struck by littlepeace’s haiku mediation on the “joy of now” when you’re in love over at Innocence Abroad.

(the) present

be here now — with you
driving down snow-covered streets,
evening armchair talks

be here now — with you
pea shoots, tomato fragrance
worm ends in rich soil

be here now — with you
laughing together, today,
with crinkled-eye smiles

be here now — with you
this moment, this moment, this,
enjoying the gift

Nicholas Gagnier‘s spare, beautiful love poem, A Crumpled Valentine, is a lovely reminder that when it comes to gift-giving, it’s the thought that counts.

Love in photographs

Photographer Steve McCurry has traveled the…

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