I'm participating in Kelly and Stacie's Build a Beautiful Blog Week – so this post is set as the "featured post" so you may quickly find a post to comment and place your entry. Scroll down to read other, new posts and tutorials.
By Heather Wright-Porto
ISBN13: 978-1-4302-3012-0
ISBN10: 1-4302-3012-6
182 pp.
Published Jul 2010
Print Book Price: $24.99
eBook Price: $17.49
This is my first book, published in July 2010, just about a year ago. It is a how-to on Blogger (Google Blogger as Blogger is one of Google's many free applications). It includes almost everything you need to know to setup, maintain and grow a blog using Blogger:
- Create a new blog.
- Choose and modify the design.
- Making the most of your posts.
- Inserting images and image management.
- How to add all sorts of gadgets like Feedburner, link lists, slideshow.
- Integrate with Facebook & Twitter!
- Setting up a blog store using PayPal and Google Checkout!
- Mapping a domain.
- SEO tips and more!
And let's not forget there is an advanced blog design chapter where you will learn how to customize HTML and CSS code; and there is a chapter on troubleshooting and finding additional free and professional help!
Enter here to win my first book, Beginning Google Blogger!
- Please leave a comment here about what you would like most about a new blog makeover.
- Then go back to Kelly's blog and tell her where you commented on my blog for your official entry.
Additional entries for also doing the following:
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- Tweet this giveaway (RT 1x per day). Feel free to use this sample: Are you thinking about starting a new blog? Doing a makeover on an existing blog? Enter to win a free blog design! http://t.co/xrsJpyk
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- Add our buttons to your blog sidebar – one entry for each of us! Kelly's Lucky You (right sidebar under "Grab My Button") Simply Stacie (right sidebar under "Grab My Button")
- Add this giveaway to any giveaway linky (unlimited entries). You can use this list! Leave one comment for each entry. Giveaway will be open for one week, ending on May 29, 2011 at 11:59 pm EST. Entries can be made on both Kelly's Lucky You and Simply Stacie. The winner will be selected from entries on both blogs using random.org. Winner will be notified by email and will have 48 hours to reply back before a new winner is selected. Note: Prizes are provided by the blog designers and neither Kelly's Lucky You nor Simply Stacie are responsible for providing prizes. This giveaway is open worldwide. Good luck! You can enter the giveaways on BOTH sites and get double the chances of winning. They are going to be picking a winner from the combined entries on both blogs at the end of each individual giveaway. So to Kelly's Lucky You and then head on over to Simply Stacie and put your entries in there too!
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Good luck and hope you enjoy Kelly's and Stacie's Build a Beautiful Blog Week!
Wow Kelly, you always give us tons of information when responding to our questions. Thank you so much for the hours and hours of work you put into your blog; not even counting the hours devoted to the ever-changing “rules” for writing HTML code. I know from personal experience when working with Microsoft Office VBA how you have to keep up with new technology on a daily basis — my hat’s off to you!!
Sandi Dailey
gdailey@concentric.net
I would love a new look on my blog. It’s black and white so some color would be nice as well as something unique that says “me” when I look at it. Your designs are absolutely gorgeous. I know we all want to win a new blog makeover by you but I hope it’s me ha.
A blog makeover… I would love to see how someone with know how could make it more appealing to customers. I have a store on there and would love to make it as effective as possible.
The best thing about a blog makeover is the creativity of the designer. You’ll never know how creative a designer is until you see a new total makeover that the designer comes up with!
When choosing what is best about a blog makeover, I would have to say a blog that matches the owners personality is the ideal blog. Having your blog match the type of blog and/or the blog name is great too, but if it doesn’t match the person, what’s the point?
Hmmm, what would I like MOST about a blog makeover? Just about everything! I started mine not too long ago, by kinda just jumping into it almost blindly. Now that I’m trying to post regularly, I realize I have no idea about SEO for my blog, nor how to design the page better, how to add an “About Me” section, and the list goes on …
Debbie Viola
http://blog.debbieviola.com
I so want to start a blog and don’e know how to begin. You book will be just the Godsend I need to give me the guidance to get moving. I’ve been crafting for years and would love to blog about it. Thank you so much for the opportunity.