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Essential Wordpress Plugins For Fashion Bloggers

This post is written by Miss Elle of Broke and Beautiful
Oh, the wide world of open-source software…
It’s brought pleasure and pain to the lives of aspiring bloggers everywhere. The leader of the pack for bloggers-going-pro? Wordpress, that magical publishing platform that allows full customization as well as a squeaky clean user interface that so many [...]

Finding the right blog platform

image by moriza
To tell the truth, I don’t believe there is a unilaterally great blog platform. And there is nothing that says that whatever blog platform you use, you’ll be stuck with forever. They all have their good points and bad points, and I don’t believe that one blog platform will make your blog successful. [...]

Affordable Business Cards For (Somewhat Broke) Bloggers

This post was written by the lovely Solo Lisa
When I stepped away from the glow of my laptop screen and began attending Vancouver fashion events, I realized I needed business cards badly. I was sick of scribbling my name and blog URL on any available scrap of paper. Not only was this unprofessional, it impeded [...]

Blogger template help – Widening Minima template

This post is by Songy of Style Discovery, who often writes handy blog tips as well as covering Australian fashion. Since many bloggers use the Blogger templates, one of the most popular is Minima (it’s what I used to use when I was on Blogger). Here Songy shows us how to widen the template.
There are [...]

Design Usability Tips Your Readers Will Love

image by kennymatic
They say ‘don’t judge a book by it’s cover’ but as fashion bloggers, we all know the importance of superficial beauty and structure. With all the blogs out there, and many of them using templates from free blogging platforms, it’s easy for blogs to look the same-same. While developing a brand and [...]

Wordpress Design Tips for Fashion Bloggers (and anyone else)

Richard Spencer Davies is author of Petite Bourgeoisie a beautifully designed site, which is no wonder because he also has a strong web design portfolio. For those of us who are struggling with Wordpress(.org), finding themes, tweaking CSS, tweaking PHP, finding themes (notice a theme here)… this article will help you sort out what options [...]