Category: Miscellaneous
Some personal updates, opinion pieces and miscellaneous content
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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,…
Black Friday Deals for your Blog and Business – Hosting, Domains, Adobe Photoshop and More
As I’m sure your inbox has made you aware, Black Friday/Small Business Saturday/Cyber Monday weekend is upon us. I wasn’t planning on doing any Black Friday posts this year, but…
How to enable the Search Description field on Blogger to increase page views
Search engines typically take the first couple of sentences of a blog post as use that as the site description on their results page. However, there is a feature on…
How to add “Click to Tweet” link within posts to encourage social sharing
Today’s post will show you how to add Click to Tweet boxes in your posts on both Blogger and WordPress. You can add these Tweet boxes throughout your posts allowing…
Burnout, vunerability, micro-blogging + working with brands – Blogtacular 2016
I can’t believe it’s already been a month since Blogtacular! Since I wrote about my Blogtacular 2015 experience I wanted to write another post to compare and share what I…
Attending Blogtacular 2016? See you there!
I’m so excited to announce that I’ll be returning to Blogtacular June 18th. I held the DIY Blog Design session last year, and met some really lovely people as well…
How to SEO your blog posts on Blogger – Video Walkthrough with FREE checklist
Today’s post is about taking my SEO tips and putting them into action in order to optimise your posts and blog content. I’ve written quite a few posts on SEO…
An alternative way to fix blurry popular post images on Blogger
I’ve had a couple of questions recently about why the popular post images on Blogger are suddenly appearing blurry. I previously posted a fix to this issue here by automatically…
How to read and write CSS correctly – Basics of HTML/CSS #10
Todays post is part of the HTML for Beginners series, and will explain some of the basics of CSS. It’s not the most interesting, but knowing the basics of HTML…
Blogtacular 2015 – Design*Sponge, Full-Time Blogging, Instagram and DIY Blog Design
This post has been sitting in my drafts since June 2015. Instead of randomly publishing it I thought I’d wait and publish it today. Why today you ask? Well tickets…
How to Correctly Centre Different Items on Blogger
Want to know how to centre your header image, blog post images, sidebar images, gadgets, text, headings and everything else on Blogger? I’ve created a reference list below for you…
How to make YouTube or Vimeo Videos Responsive on your site
YouTube, Vimeo and other video hosts make it easy to embed videos on your website and blog using frames, however there isn’t a responsive option and editing iframes is near…
How to customise the 404 not found page on Blogger
The not found page on Blogger is really boring and unhelpful. It doesn’t encourage your readers to visit other areas of your site or help them find something they are…
