Blogging Tips

Abstract

Breathe. No coffee or espresso required this time! I’m so proud of you and hope you enjoyed creating your blog with me. Do you remember where we started? And look at where you are now! We began by brainstorming about what to name your blog, what it would look like, and what you would be posting about. Next we discussed organization and blog layout, as well as some creative writing tips. You then created a Blogger, TypePad, or WordPress blog—or maybe you created all three! We continued the journey by working with images and videos and learned how to get them from your camera or video recorder to your blog. We experimented with blog design, adding a banner and changing colors, setting up a custom domain, and learning how to integrate your blog with the very popular Facebook and Twitter. We then discussed SEO and how to track visitor activity, how to set up an online store, and in the last chapter how to use HTML and CSS to further customize your blog.