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Go Mobile | How to Rock Your Online Presence for Smartphone Users

Bloggers…we like to work on our laptops and computers. As creators, it’s simpler. But we are giving our content to a world that likes to be mobile. Have you ever thought about your links, posts, blogs, and site from the perspective of a smartphone user? Common Problems Blog Sidebars Disappear On most mobile versions (whether you […]

Why Other Bloggers in Your Niche are NOT Your Competition

I used to be afraid to go to other blogging websites. Terrified that I would find content way better, smarter, and faster. Sure I‘d want to go crawl under a rock when I saw the amount of comments and following. In other words, I was insecure. Does it sound familiar? Human beings by nature are […]

10 Design Tips Using PicMonkey That You Might Not Know About!

PicMonkey is a favorite tool for bloggers. It’s easy and quick, allowing you to add text and overlays to photos for blog posts. If you can’t afford Photoshop, it’s the perfect alternative! Having worked with it for nearly two years, I’ve learned a few tricks that may help. Creating a round button In the design […]

Most Bloggers Think About Social Media the Wrong Way

Do you ever feel like your spinning your wheels on social media? You publish a post and then it’s time to get to work sharing it all over Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, and Google +? We hope that the traffic comes in and our numbers go up and our audience is engaged. And then we feel so […]

3 Posts That Went Viral From Everyday Bloggers – What Can We Learn?

It’s like striking the digital lotto. Every blogger wants their writing to spread through the Internet like a bad case of the Avian Flu. The problem is– there doesn’t seem to be a rhyme or reason to what strikes the public’s fancy at any given moment! Some of the best writing out there is tucked […]

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 […]

Prophoto for WordPress | Why I’m Using it More and More

As a web designer/blogger, I am constantly messing with themes and frameworks. If you’ve been around the blog scene for any length of time, you know that Thesis and Genesis are two industry standards. There is also Weaver Pro, a great theme for beginners, or of course- you can trick out any of the WordPress […]

How To Perform A Website Migration

So you have a client who wants to move their blog from Blogger to WordPress? You’ve done a bit of searching and there is a LOT of information out there about how to move… And a lot of it is in techno-speak that makes absolutely no sense. I’m going to attempt to explain it in […]

A Beginner’s Guide to Hootsuite

Social media can be overwhelming. Scratch that– it is overwhelming. As bloggers, it seems mind numbing that after all that work to write a post, you then have to be your own PR and market it on every platform known to man. Hootsuite aims to make social media just a bit easier. There are a […]

Understanding How Gravatar, WordPress.com, and Your Self-Hosted Blog Work Together

Anyone else confused by this? Sometimes the simplest things can be so complicated. Since I am asked to help with gravatars all the time, I thought I would lay it out in laymen’s terms. Let’s start with the differences between WordPress.com and WordPress.org. WordPress.com Sometimes I wish they would have  named it something else. Nothing […]

How to Use Google Calendar with Your WordPress Blog or Website

A lot of small businesses come to me with a need for some sort of event calendar on their website. One of the simplest ways to accomplish this is with Google Calendars. Why use that instead of some fancy calendar plugin built for WordPress? Why not use a calendar plugin? If you can do something […]

First Year Bloggers | Domesticated Wild Child

Fabulous Blogging hosts 1st year bloggers to tell their story– why they started, what they are learning, and how to carve a space in the digital world. This week’s 1st year blogger is Jessica Churchill from Domesticated Wild Child.