Black Friday deals for creators, small business owners and WordPress users
The Black Friday – Cyber Monday weekend is here! And I’m back with my annual roundup of the biggest discounts for digital entrepreneurs. Below you’ll find deals on domains, hosting, themes, plugins, graphics, tools and more. Remember a deal is not a deal, unless you were going to buy it anyway. Domains + Hosting Cloudways…
Grow your business or personal brand – Reader survey 2024
Welcome to the 2024 Reader Survey… If you’re a small business owner or content creator, I would love if you could fill out the questionnaire below. It should only take a couple of minutes and the information you provide will be used when deciding the content, courses, products and services I offer over the coming…
20+ discounts for content creators, small business owners and WordPress users – Black Friday 2022
The best deals on domains, hosting, themes, plugins and more for content creators, small business owners and WordPress users
Reflecting on 2021 and my hopes for 2022
Covid-19 vaccines and variants, storming the US Capitol Building, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris inauguration, Bernie Sanders meme, Sarah Everard, The 2020 Euro’s, Kim Kardashian’s Met Gala ensemble, Derek Chauvin sentenced, Donald Trump impeached, NFTs, Squid Game, Oprah interviews Harry and Megan, #FreeBritney, Kourtney and Travis, Facebook outage, Meta, Adele, “the CDC recommends”. Just a couple…
Setting intentions for 2021
I typically stay away from New Years resolutions. Instead opting for a word or theme of the year – like possibility (2013), growth (2015) and my year of yes (2018). I switched things up for 2020 and foolishly set resolutions – stuff like blog at least once a month, read the books I own, learn…
Black Friday and Cyber Monday Deals for Bloggers, Content Creators and WordPress Users (2020)
Happy Black Friday, Small Business Saturday, Sofa Sunday, Cyber Monday and Giving Tuesday… I’ve gathered together the best deals on domains, hosting, themes, plugins, graphics and other miscellaneous tools for bloggers, content creators, entrepreneurs, web designers, developers and WordPress users. As always, I want to emphasise that you shouldn’t feel pressure to purchase anything you don’t…
How to tweak your site’s CSS using your browser’s developer tools (with video demo)
Did you know that you can use your browser to tweak elements of your site without making any permanent changes. This is a great way to get familiar with your theme’s structure and CSS. Related: How to read and write CSS for styling your blog How to enable developer tools on your browser On Safari,…
How custom is your custom site design?
You decide you have had enough of pre-made themes from the likes of Themeforest or Creative Market and you want to hire someone to create a custom site just for you. You need to find the person who is going to make your site dreams come through. And suddenly you realise how overwhelming this is,…
My creative journey over the last decade – and ten lessons after ten years of blogging
Growing up I always thought about being a writer. I wasn’t good in English class and I couldn’t write but I enjoyed it. I loved creating things and my mother, being the crafter she is, always encouraged it. I had pretty much every toy from the arts, crafts and hobbies isle. When I was about…
60+ Black Friday weekend deals for bloggers, web designers and WordPress users [affiliate links]
It’s that time of year again, the sales are back! I feel like this gets extended every year – there’s now Black Friday, Small Business Saturday, Sofa Sunday, Cyber Monday and Giving Tuesday *exhale*. Fun fact, it’s estimated that consumers spent more than $14 billion last year on Black Friday and Cyber Monday, according to…
Changing from Blogger Custom Domain to another Custom Domain
This post will explain the steps for changing your blog address/URL on Blogger from a custom domain (myolddomain.com) to a difference custom domain (mynewdomain.com). Read the first part of this post on how to smoothly change your URL or blog name, which will explain the overall steps and things to prepare before changing your URL.…
Black Friday weekend deals for bloggers, web designers and WordPress users
It’s that time of year again – Black Friday, Small Business Saturday and Cyber Monday. I’ve gathered together the deals on domains, hosting, WordPress plugins, design graphics and lots more for bloggers, web designers, developers and WordPress users. I will continue to update this list as offers come in over the weekend, so check back!…
Being led by inspiration, finding your sweet spot and discovering your Instagram style – Blogtacular 2018
Back in June, I went along to the fifth annual Blogtacular conference – the place for bloggers and creative entrepreneurs to network, share tips and inspire each other. If you haven’t heard of Blogtacular before, it’s run over two days in London beginning on Friday afternoon with a photo walk around London. The photowalks were…
Charging what you’re worth, curating your own feed, growing your Instagram brand and using your platform – Blogtacular 2017
One Saturday in June, I attended the Blogtacular conference – an inspiring day that left me feeling very creative, motivated and buzzing to put plans into action. If you haven’t heard of it before Blogtacular is an inspiring blogging conference (and fun networking event), held annually in June in London. The weekend is filled with…
Black Friday Deals for Bloggers, Web Designers and WordPress Users
It’s that time of year again – Black Friday, Small Business Saturday and Cyber Monday. I’ve gathered together the deals on domains, hosting, WordPress plugins, design graphics and lots more for bloggers, web designers, developers and WordPress users. I will continue to update this list as offers come in over the weekend, so check back!…
Dynamic Image Post Slider for Blogger
One of my most requested tutorials is for a dynamic image post slider on Blogger. Today, I’m sharing with you one of the many methods of creating and styling a post slider for Blogger using HTML, CSS and JS to dynamically show your recently published posts. Blogger Post Slider Demo Add Post Slider to your…
How to add jQuery Tabs to Blogger to create multi-tabbed content
Today’s tutorial will show you how to create tabs on your Blogger blog. Tabs help you organise different content sections in a single container, allowing users to switch between items easily. Tabbed Content is great way of displaying a lot of content in a smaller space by separating the content into different panels. There are…
How to install Font Awesome on Blogger to display icons on blog
Font Awesome offer a wide range (600+) of high quality scalable vector icons, that can be easily be used on your blog and customised using CSS. This post will show you to add the icon font to your Blogger blog and use icons within your content. Install Font Awesome on Blogger Adding Font Awesome to…
How to add a simple and responsive image gallery to Blogger (4 different styles)
This post will show you how to easily add a simple and responsive image gallery to your Blogger/Blogspot blog. Galleries are a great way to display multiple images without making the user scroll through a long slow-loading page. This tutorial will show you how to add an image gallery in a grid layout with rows…
Alternatives to Photobucket for hosting your blog photos and how to store images directly on Blogger and WordPress
Photobucket, a very popular photo hosting service used by over 100 million registered users, recently made changes to their business model and angered a lot of their users in the process. Since 2003 the service allowed you to upload/host images for free on their servers and embed them elsewhere (like in a forum or on…
Bloglovin’ respond to issue around stealing traffic from bloggers
If you were on social media yesterday you may have read some confusing news about Bloglovin stealing page views. I wasn’t going to do a post about this as there’s already a lot of information out there, but I’ve got a few messages so thought a blog post would be best to explain what is…
Blogger release new themes and updated features
Good news for Blogspot users, this week Blogger announced on their blog that they were releasing some beautiful new themes for the popular blogging platform. The four new themes should now be available in your dashboard, they are: Contempo – As good for a photo as it is for a story, Contempo puts a fresh,…
How to create a dropdown search bar in your navigation on Blogger
Today’s tutorial is showing you how to add a search icon to your navigation menu that when clicked will display a search box. The search bar will slide down allowing your visitors to search for blog posts (there’s a similar example on this site). Please note that this tutorial needs updating, due to the restrictions…
How to Add Numbered Pagination to Blogger
Bloggers standard pagination allows readers to browse through your blog page by page using older/newer or previous/next navigation. This post will show you how to add a numbered pagination instead, replacing the older/newer pagination with a numeric navigation allowing users to jump through pages. Due to the restrictions on Blogger the pagination.js file in step…
Category: Miscellaneous
Some personal updates, opinion pieces and miscellaneous content
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