And Possibly Dinosaurs
The best parts of being a homebody
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There’s nothing worse than sitting down at your computer, knowing you need a blog post for tomorrow, and having no idea what to write about.
Luckily, there’s a way to avoid this: planning content way in advance.
Great idea, but how the heck are you supposed to do that? And how are you supposed to remember it all? It’s easy! With one of my absolute favorite blogging tools: CoSchedule.
Hey—want some one-on-one help getting this set up? Book a 20-minute consultation and we can work through it via video chat!
When you’re a blogger who works full-time, productivity is a huge priority. (Okay, who are we kidding? Productivity is a huge priority for everyone.)
One easy way to be more productive is to speed up the amount of time it takes for you to create your blog graphics. Here’s how I create my blog graphics in 15 minutes or less, without sacrificing on quality or design.
As a career-focused woman with a side hustle, I’ve got a pretty big to do list.
I’m currently working full-time, running my blog, planning a wedding, and, you know… existing in the world. So I’ve got graphics to design, blog posts to write, cat boxes to clean, clothes to wash, and flowers to pick out.
Yikes.
With all of these things in my life, how does one expect to say on top of tasks and not let everything fall through the cracks? Well, I’ve been working on that for the past few years, and I’ve got some tips to share.
Blogging can be such a lonely industry. Most of us sit at our computers, all alone (except maybe a dog or a cat), with no one to talk to but our mysterious “audience.”
While a lot of us have full-time jobs to give us some human interaction, the actual act of blogging can be quite lonesome.
So, what’s a blogger to do? The best solution is to find blogging BFFs who can talk you through ruts, share industry knowledge, and give you a peak inside your target audience.
Believe it or not, blogging BFFs can actually have a huge impact on your well-being. Here’s why.
Every once in a while (read: all the friggen time) bloggers feel a bit crunched for time. You’re working a full-time job, and after 8 hours of work, plus your commute, plus assembling a bunch of items from IKEA, you just feel exhausted by the idea of running your blog, let alone growing it.
Not that I’m talking from experience here or anything.
So, how does one find the time to blog in an endless world of busy? Well, unfortunately you can’t just whip extra time out of thin air, so you’ve got to prioritize.
My favorite way to enforce those priorities? Time blocking.
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Organization is a key part of productivity. After all, if you can’t find anything, it’s going to take a while to get things done.
That’s why I’m always super strict about my file organization. Whether it’s for work, my blog, or my personal life, my files always have to have some sort of organization.
So how can we ensure you’ll never lose a file again and always know where to look? Here’s how to organize your blog files.
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If you’ve been reading And Possibly Dinosaurs for a while, you know that two of my favorite things are saving time and InDesign. So I’m super excited to share an awesome way to save time with InDesign: custom InDesign page sizes!
Whenever you open an InDesign document, it’s traditionally going to auto-fill your page size as a single-page, vertical letter-sized document. You can choose other options that have already been created for you, like Tabloid, Legal, and Half Letter. But what if you’ve got a custom size you’d like to be able to easily select from the drop-down menu without having to look up the dimensions each time?
That’s where custom InDesign page sizes come in! You can tell InDesign what page sizes you’d like available, and it will show them in the Page Size drop-down menu for you. Pretty awesome, right?
We’re all on the hunt for ways to make our lives easier, right? We’ve got things we need to do and things we want to do, and they don’t often intersect.
Well, good news. If you’re a blogger spending way too much time trying to grow your email list or increase your page views, InDesign can help. Here are 9 ways it will make your life WAY easier.
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Blogging can be super stressful if you’ve got a full-time job. Balancing everything gets crazy hectic, especially if it’s, well… less than organized.
But good news! I’ve figured out a way to organize your blog (we’re talkin’ hella organized) with an awesome program called CoSchedule.
New Years is almost upon us. Which can only mean one thing: new years resolutions.
I’m working on my own set of resolutions, both personally and professionally. I’m trying to really nail down one or two, so I can focus more attention on fewer goals.
I’ve noticed a lot of bloggers sharing their blogging new years resolutions, and I wanted to help out. Here are some awesome resources I’ve found for some common blogging new years resolutions:
We all know that I love saving time, especially when it comes to my blog. I definitely don’t want to sacrifice quality, but I don’t want to spend a ton of time doing the same thing over and over again.
There’s one InDesign tool that I’m always using to save time: step and repeat.
While it may sound like a military command, Step and Repeat is actually a really useful tool for graphic designers.
As you may have noticed, my blog post header images have basically the exact same layout. Sure, there are three different colors: yellow (for blogging and design), teal (for lifestyle), and pink (for feminism), and some without a color overlay (for DIY and travel), but they’ve got the exact same font, placement, and logo.
This isn’t by accident. I want to create brand consistency (and you should, too!). And no, I don’t spend hours making sure all of the font sizing, placement, and settings are the same in every single image. In fact, blog post header images only take me a few minutes at most.
But how?
Easy: I created a blog post header image template in Photoshop, and now all I have to do is swap out the image, text, and color. Then voila! New, on-brand header image.
Sure, it took some time to come up with the final design, and the template itself took a little time to create, but it’s easier than making a new header each time! I’ll show you how.
