Google Plus. It still strikes fear (or apathy) into the hearts of many bloggers, and I completely understand that… I was one of them. I’ve mentioned before that when I first joined Google+, I was not happy at all. It was…
A week ago today I was lucky enough to attend the Next Blogger Network workshop at the fabulous Hoxton Hotel in London (I say lucky because St. Jude’s Storm only made me a couple of hours late rather than missing…
In my pursuit of assessing my blog and finding out what can be done to improve it, I’ve recently been pondering the “jump break” tool used on a lot of blogs – that is, where you see the beginning part…
If you want to improve your Instagram pictures and produce a great looking feed that will make people “ooh” and “aah” over every image – and hopefully gain some more followers in the process – then read on, this is…
On many occasions I’ve read blogs talking about photo editing, and the bloggers getting a little despondent when they talk about how they “can’t afford Photoshop”. If I were to suggest that you forgo that pair of new shoes this…
It’s finally here – the last part of my mini series on how to give your blog a DIY makeover! So if you’ve been following along, you may have done some (or all!) of the following: Part One: Created a…
Last summer I wrote a post entitled 10 Things I Wish I’d Known When I Started a Blog. Having re-read it a little while ago, and the fact that I still receive the occasional comment on that post, it got…
Sorry for the delay in getting Part Two of this post to you – I intended to publish it two weeks after Part One, but life (a.k.a. blog stuff) got in the way. So here it is, better late than…
Since I gave my own blog a design makeover in September last year, a few people have asked whether I got a designer to do it for me or whether I did it myself. Well, it’s all my own work,…