Caffeine for your WordPress Blog: How to Optimize for High Volume Traffic

After a frustrating blog crash last week I’ve been doing some serious optimizing on Wow Its a Light Bulb. But hey its not necessarily a bad thing when your blog crashes… At least you are getting a lot of traffic and readers to your website! Having successfully optimized my wordpress blog I’ve compiled a list of steps you can take to help optimize your own wordpress blog.

How to create Vintage-looking distressed text in Illustrator in 5 steps

I’m going to teach you how to create that washed, vintage look to your typeface by using nothing but Illustrator. The cool thing about creating distressed text in Illustrator rather than with Photoshop is that your image will be fully scalable without losing any resolution.

For this tutorial all you’ll need is a good texture image – try a wooden fence or ocean waves – and a saying you want distressed!