Step by step instructions for adding social follow buttons into a signature. Includes screenshots for anyone using Weaver, Genesis, or Prophoto.
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Creating Custom Social Media Buttons to Match Your Blog Theme
You’ve seen them around. They are those cute customized social media buttons that those fancy schmancy designers make. Now, you will make them! You can pay someone (like me) to make them for you, but if you are feeling ambitious, why not try it out yourself? I’ll give you step by step instructions. There is […]
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“Let me start by saying I’m a complete newbie when it comes to the blogging/social media world. Even though I’ve been writing on a blog for about a year and a half now, I’m still so young in blogging years. When Julie re-designed a friend’s site, I LOOOOVED it. So much so, it inspired me […]
Blogging Hacks That Will Save You Time!
Who doesn’t want more hours in the day? When you aren’t a full-time blogger, all the various tasks must fit in around work and home and other responsibilities. The following hacks are methods I use to save time and get more done! 1. Talk your post Almost everyone has a smartphone. Talking into it has […]
The Beginner’s Guide to Periscope for Bloggers
It’s only been out for five months or so, but the newest social media platform and app – Periscope – is making headlines. New social platforms seem to pop up everyday and it’s hard to know when to pay attention and when to let the trend pass, but Periscope has all the markings of an […]
Where to Find Design Elements for your Client Work
The following list is for any freelancer looking for graphic elements or fonts for their client work, themes, and/or graphics. Anything with an asterisk has FREE resources! Fonts Handy tip: If you are looking for a font for a newsletter or graphic that you plan to make in a program like Word, Photoshop, or even […]
Use PicMonkey and Canva Together to Make Amazing Graphics!
If you’re looking for an easy and {mostly} free way to make graphics and edit photos, Canva and PicMonkey are the two websites you need to bookmark right now. They are both fantastic for all sorts of online and paper projects, not to mention web design elements. Today, I’m going to go through some of […]
Quick ‘n Dirty | MailChimp, Migration Woes, Instagram, and More
As a blog designer and social media consultant, I receive a lot of questions in my email inbox. And you’d be surprised how many are repeats! So I thought I’d start a series where I compile them in a list with no frills answers. Consider it a grab n go resource guide for you to […]
8 Tips to Rejuvenate your Facebook Page
Many of us have spent a long time building up our Facebook business pages. Now that organic reach is {nearly} dead, some people have abandoned their pages to look for audiences elsewhere. However, some of you may want to soldier on — learning the ins and outs of what it means to build a Facebook […]
22 Ideas to Help Your WordPress Website Look Customized and Professional
When you first install WordPress, it’s fairly bare bones. You are given a default theme, no plugins (or very few) and all the default settings for comments, timezone, favicon, etc. In order to make your blog or website stand out, here are 22 ways to customize your site to look like one of a kind. […]
The Quick ‘n Dirty Answer for Everything
Questions I’ve been asked….with answers on the blog. Blogging I need help getting over how overwhelmed I am with all there is to know! Why don’t people comment on my blog? What are the biggest problems you find on beginning blogs (from a technical perspective)? How do I get more traffic to my blog? I […]
Everything You Need (and Don’t) With the Jetpack Plugin
If you are using WordPress for your blog, you’ve probably heard of the plugin called Jetpack. I get a lot of questions about Jetpack — its function, its connection to WordPress.com, as well as how to use it. So today, I’m going to decode the mega-plugin for you. I’ll explain how to get it on […]
Create a Button or Header That Changes When You Hover With Your Mouse
If you are a self-taught blogging DIYer, you might have seen these gorgeous headers and buttons with mouseover effects and you wonder, “How do they do that?” Today’s tutorial is going to teach you how! One disclaimer — I’m going to show you how to create a fully interactive header, but I’ll be giving instructions for […]
Cheats and Hacks: Trick Out Sidebar Widgets When You Don’t Know HTML Code
Problem #1: I want to add formatting to a text widget, but I don’t know the HTML for it! This is a common problem for bloggers who want to add a photo (usually left aligned) with text that is either bold or italicized, formatted with colors, and needing to go in a sidebar. How now […]
A List of 22 Easy (and mostly free) Blogging Tools
Have you ever wanted to sneak into your favorite blogger’s computer and see what tools and programs he/she uses to make her website look so awesome? Well, I have. And I’ve stalked other bloggers trying to find the best, easiest, and inexpensive tools. So this is my blogging toolbox. Every single one of these websites […]