Product Description

Todays crafting community is online, connected and blissfully blogging about their work and ideas. Blogging is hot in this highly creative world and here is the only how-to book aimed directly at them. Everyone from knitters and beaders to scrapbookers and altered artists will find the practical information and visual inspiration they need to create an artful online journal. Thanks to hundreds of gorgeous screen grabs from the very best blogs, a thorough introduction to the tools of the trade and instructions that virtually take you by the hand, even beginners will swiftly go from blank screen to colourful, enticing pages. Those who already have a blog, but want to enhance their presence on the Web, will learn how to add banners and graphics, take the perfect shots, crop and size photographs, establish links and attract an audience of eager readers. Best of all, readers will meet some of the webs most popular creative bloggers, including Alicia Paulson (Posie Gets Cozy), Gabreial Wyatt (Vintage Indie) and Emily Martin (Inside A Black Apple).

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #32375 in Books
• Published on: 2009-10-07
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 156 pages

About the Author
Since 2004, Tara Freys blog (tara frey: typing out loud) has inspired thousands. Her blog was honoured as a Typepad Favorite Blog in November 2008 and receives more than 6,000 hits a day. Her articles about the lives and blogs of creative bloggers appear regularly in many publications. Readers can connect with her at www.bloggingforbliss.com.

Customer Reviews

Love it
A glorious book. I am reading it right through and will then go back and work on some of the ideas for my blog, particularly the photo aspect. I can then go and view the blogs of those highlighted in the book. The photos are fantastic, the writing easy on the brain, the write ups and hints from other blog owners is all great.

Don't get me wrong - I like this, but it confuses me
I was really looking forward to this book and received it this morning. I bought it as I already had a blog and wanted some more info on techniques, getting inspirations for posts etc.

What confuses me about this book is that it offers information that I think 99% of people interested in blogging already know or would seek from individuals blogs/internet itself. The ultimate case of a book now longer being relevant or required? For example print out shots of how to set up a blog.

Having said this it does offer an interesting synopsis of some popular blogs and I am enjoying reading those.

So a great purchase if you know nothing about blogging......but then if you know nothing then why would you be reading this book.........?