Posts Tagged ‘TypePad’

Blogging for Bliss: Crafting Your Own Online Journal: A Guide for Crafters, Artists & Creatives of all Kinds

July 29, 2009 - 9:07 am No Comments

Today’s crafting community is online, connected, and blissfully blogging about their work and ideas. Blogging is hot in this highly creative world—and here is the only how-to book aimed directly at them. Everyone from knitters and beaders to scrapbookers and altered artists will find the practical information and visual inspiration they need to create an artful online journal.

Thanks to hundreds of gorgeous screen grabs from the very best blogs, a thorough introduction to the tools of the trade, and instructions that virtually take you by the hand, even beginners will swiftly go from blank screen to colorful, enticing pages. Those who already have a blog, but want to enhance their presence on the Web, will learn how to add banners and graphics, take the perfect shots, crop and size photos, establish links, and attract an audience of eager readers.

Best of all, readers will meet some of the web’s most popular creative bloggers, including Alicia Paulson (Posie Gets Cozy), Gabreial Wyatt (Vintage Indie), Emily Martin (Inside A Black Apple), Lidy Baars (Little French Garden House), Heather Bullard (Vintage Inspired Living), and Serena Thompson and Teri Edwards (The Farm Chicks).

About the Author
Since 2004, TARA FREY’s blog {tara frey: typing out loud} has inspired thousands with its honest, well-written, and often funny prose about subjects both professional and personal. Her blog was honored as a Typepad Favorite Blog in November 2008 and receives more than 6,000 hits a day. Her articles about the lives and blogs of creative bloggers appear regularly in Romantic Homes, Romantic Country, and Artful Blogging.

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The IT Girl’s Guide to Blogging with Moxie

June 17, 2009 - 1:22 pm No Comments

Want to break into blogging but don’t know where to start? Dynamic duo Joelle Reeder and Katherine Scoleri of The Moxie GirlsTM show you how to start your first blog, polish your prose, get involved in blogging communities, make sense of RSS feeds, podcasts, photos and more — all with fun, humor and attitude!

Inside you will find the need-to-know info to get your blog noticed: How to choose the right blogging platform or content management tool, select a web host, dress up your blog, manage blog content and keep your privates private! When you are ready for more, The Moxie Girls will treat you to insider dish on blog etiquette, analyzing blog traffic, blogging for business, creating podcasts and adding bling to your blog with plugins, add-ons and more. Throw in the refreshing cocktails, beauty tips and gossip with the Girls at the end of each chapter and you’ll be Blogging with Moxie in no time. So, what are you waiting for?

The IT Girl’s Guide to Blogging With Moxie is packed with the content you need wrapped in casual, engaging dialog and a cheeky, bite-sized format.

  • Bargain-blogging with tools such as WordPress®, TypePad®, and Vox
  • Choosing a content management system like Expression Engine or Movable Type
  • Managing blog content, using tags and moderating comments
  • Selecting a professional designer and choosing from off-the-rack templates
  • An introduction to podcasting and videocasting
  • Finding, joining and managing blog communities
  • Protecting your online identity
  • Using a blog to better your business
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