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…
Card based blog design – how to divide each post into a separate box on Blogger
Card-based layouts are becoming increasingly popular across the web, with many popular sites like Pinterest, Dribble and Google+ adapting the style. They are usually presented in a grid or list, showing a summary of information that is easy to scan. This makes them perfect for displaying blog posts. This post will explain the basic method…
Category: Miscellaneous
Some personal updates, opinion pieces and miscellaneous content
