Blogging for Bliss: Crafting Your Own Online Journal: A Guide for Crafters, Artists & Creatives of all Kinds
Blogging for Bliss: Crafting Your Own Online Journal: A Guide for Crafters, Artists & Creatives of all Kinds
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Product Description
Today’s 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 colorful, 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 photos, establish links, and attract an audience of eager readers.
Best of all, readers will meet some of the Web’s most popular creative bloggers, including Alicia Paulson (Posie Gets Cozy), Gabreial Wyatt (Vintage Indie), Emily Martin (Inside A Black Apple), Lidy Baars (Little French Garden House), Heather Bullard (Vintage Inspired Living), and Serena Thompson and Teri Edwards (The Farm Chicks).
Details
- ISBN13: 9781600595110
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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This is one of those books that came up for me as a suggestion and it had good reviews and looked like it might have potential.
IT IS WONDERFUL!!!
A womanly, girly, crafty inspiration on every page. Great profiles of other women and their really cool blogs. You will want to be friends with them all!
It is practical and gave some instruction on making your own blog pretty cool.
If you like Victoria magazine, antique stores, shabby chic this is your book. Even if you don’t have a blog it will connect you a whole world of crafty women you will want to visit.
Order this book, have some tea and cookies and your computer handy…
Suz
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If you are thinking of starting a blog, are new to blogging or you’re like me, and have been blogging for several years, this book is a wonderful go-to reference for just what you need to know to be a great blogger! Tara covers all the important aspects of blogging from how to start your own blog to making your photographs look great to blog etiquette….plus there are so many wonderful bloggers featured inside. They share their take on blogging, what works for them and even the blogs they must visit on a daily basis. I love it ~ even as a seasoned blogger, there’s still so much I can learn!
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This book is so beautiful that it would be tempting to pass it off as just a piece of eye candy. I was wonderfully surprised to find a concisely written and well organized resource book with all the information one needs to know to create a beautiful blog. In addition to the ABC’s of blogging it also contains encouraging stories and the URL’s of many creative-type bloggers, which provide yet another source of inspiration.
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Familiar with Tara and her work, I was long awaiting the book Blogging for Bliss: Crafting Your Own Online Journal. Could not get my hands on a copy. I had to wait for the book since we were on vacation for a month in a fairly remote area. Home now, the book was waiting for me on my doorstep. Thanks Amazon! It was all I could do to get the car unpacked and the first load of laundry in the washer. Once comfy, read it for a couple of hours until I was too sleepy to continue. Finished the book today, with many turned down pages for future reference. I am not new to web design but setting up a blog has eluded me. The how-to’s in your book will help me get started with my own blog. Thank you, Tara for introductions and stories of the talented Bloggers in your book with immeasurable inspiration.
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I love this book! It’s chock full of delicious photography and dozens of truly fabulous blogs. In addition, it’s loaded with down to earth information to help anyone create a blog that’s not only a work of art, but a practical online store, too. This is a really fun book!
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What’s not to love about Blogging for Bliss by Tara Frey? It features several dozen eye candy blogs in a handy softcover square.
Want to know how to start your own blog? It’s all there, whether you want to blog for fun or profit- from promoting your own business to accepting advertising on your blogs. Frey digs into all the major blog programs: Blogger, Typepad, WordPress.
She knows whereof she speaks, having had an on-line journal since 2004 and a popular virtual on-line shop, Bella Pink. He blog is known as Typing Out Loud or TaraFrey.com, [...]. Frey may be familiar to some hard-copy readers, having been featured in Romantic Country Homes magazine and has been a contributing editor for Romantic Homes magazine where, among other things, she highlighted not-to-be-missed blogs.
Calling blogs “the personal journals of the 21st century,” Frey takes her Bliss book readers on a journey of some of the most notable and widely-read blogs from around the country and around the world.
I enjoyed the book simply for the introduction to blogs I had not seen before, and for the beautiful showing of blog banners, both new and familiar. If you want to find more favorite places with the same kind of sentiment as Frey, Bliss will serve as your handbook. Good thing it is softcover; I have it dog-eared already from checking out all the beautiful blogs she profiles. You’ll want to be at your computer while looking at this book! And keep it right there handy for future visits.
Newbies will appreciate her helpful glossary of e-mystifying terms, like domain mapping, IP address and Icerocket; links to helpful resources for bloggers, explanation of those cutesy abbreviations like OTOH and TAFN, and HTML, with simple codes for beginning bloggers.
Bliss will also help you explore the various platforms in depth, choosing a home for your blog, and the all-important style, colors, widgets and fun blog accessories to achieve a personalized and custom look, even if you are not computer savvy.
A big attraction of Frey’s blog has always been her photography. In her book she discusses how to take–and edit–blog-worthy photos, with a discussion of proper equipment as well as public photo-sharing and storage sites.
Lastly, if you just want to understand more about the popular no-longer-just-a-phenomenon called blogging, Frey offers blog etiquette tips about comments, spam, and general manners for both bloggers and readers.
It’s an indispensable little book. Try it; you’ll like it. Blogging for Bliss, and blogging, whether as a reader or a writer, add much to the human language.
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Finally! Some real help and advice from a gosh darn great blogger! Blogger Tara Frey guides anyone from a die-hard techie back through the real beginner to find their own on-line style. And she does it with beautiful photographs, insightful personal notes, and candid interviews from other successful bloggers. There is a glossary to help understand vocabulary, an concise explination of several blogging platforms, and a wonderful chapter on creating the best photos possible. This book will help boost confidence, not only for the newbie or undecided, but also spark ideas in the experienced, as well. Not only a great starting point, it is also a great refresher!
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I am professional illustrator and designer who stumbled across this book (having no idea it had just been released) and I simply love it. I have had a blog attached to my online portfolio (Monica Lee Studios) for several years and this book inpsired me to spiff it up AND gave me tutitorials on how to do it. There were tweaks I wanted to make to my blog that I just did not know how to do and this book provided answers! Hooray! Not to mention all the inspirational interviews with creative bloggers that are featured throughout the book.I am excited to sink into to all these new blogs…will I ever actually WORK again?! So this book has a great balance of inspiration and how-to’s. Whether you want to start a blog or your current blog needs a shot in the arm, I highly reccomend this book!