Released August 2009:
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 and join the creative social media community.
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 creative bloggers, including blogs such as:: Posie Gets Cozy, Vintage Indie, SouleMama, Inside a Black Apple, Angry Chicken, Tracy Porter, Daisy Cottage, Tongue in Cheek, Hello My Name is Heather, and Design*Sponge just to name a few!
Tara Frey’s blog {tara frey: typing out loud} has inspired thousands with its honest, well-written, and often funny prose about subjects both professional and personal. Her blog has received numerous honors and awards and receives thousands of visitors from around the globe each day. Her columns and articles about the lives and blogs of creative bloggers have appeared in Romantic Homes, Romantic Country, and she has been featured in Artful Blogging. Readers can connect with her at www.tarafrey.com.
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