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When designing a website, CSS is a critical tool to understand. While it’s robust, it’s luckily really easy to learn! Let’s cover CSS basics for bloggers.
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Blogging requires a lot of skills. You need to be able to write well, and you need to have at least some sort of expertise in your topic. But once you get into it, you realize that you also need photography skills, design skills, marketing skills, and coding skills. These can all be really intimidating!
To take some of the intimidation out of blogging, we’re going to go through some HTML basics for bloggers. If you have no prior web design experience, it’s time you learn to code!
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Design is a really important aspect of marketing and blogging. But it can take so much time to create attractive designs!
Throughout the 12 years that I’ve been using InDesign and Photoshop, I’ve discovered some awesome ways to design productively that don’t compromise the design. They’re shortcuts that do exactly what I’d already been doing — but Adobe does it for me!
Here are my favorite tricks to design productively.
In the age of the side-hustle, branding is everything. But even if you aren’t rocking a side-hustle, it’s imperative that you know how to brand yourself.
After all, a brand is what distinguishes a company, product, service, or person from another. As you’re applying for jobs and meeting people, having a brand will set you apart and make you that much easier to remember.
Ready to start your own personal branding journey? Let’s go!
When I relaunched And Possibly Dinosaurs this week, I launched a brand-new service: Custom Brand Design by And Possibly Dinosaurs!
To give you an idea of what the process will look like, I’m outlining the new branding for And Possibly Dinosaurs. You can expect a very similar process if you hire me to redesign your brand!
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You’ve probably heard that popups are super effective ways to grow your email list.
There are so many different kinds. Welcome mats take over literally the entire screen when someone gets to your site. Delayed popups appear after a given amount of time. Exit-intent popups that appear when someone gestures like they’re about to leave your page.
No matter what type of popup, there’s one thing that pretty much everyone agrees on: they’re super annoying.
Okay, so there’s one type of popup that isn’t: on-click popups, which appear after you click on a button. But more on those later.
So, what do you do when you’re morally opposed to popups, but still want to grow your email list? Don’t worry, there’s plenty of options! Here’s where to put opt-ins when you really don’t like popups.
InDesign is an amazing tool to utilize, whether you’re a blogger, a small business owner, or a social media manager.
But, just like with any new software program, it can be really intimidating the first few hundred times you open it. That’s the downside of a program with so many amazing features: it’s hard to know which ones to start with!
So, for all of the InDesign beginners out there, don’t be intimidated by InDesign! Here are the 7 tools you should start with.
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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.
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One of the most intimidating aspects of design and branding is typography. There are so many fonts out there, it always seems impossible to choose!
And even after you’ve slimmed it down, how the heck are you supposed to figure out which ones look the best together without spending hours upon hours of putting random fonts together?
I promise: it’s actually not as hard as it seems! It will still be time consuming, but these tips will make it a bit easier!
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Working with a designer is awesome. You get all kinds of ideas for branding and content upgrades that you never could have thought of on your own.
But the downside is the cost. It can get expensive to work with a designer.
I know this because I am one. I work with clients to build a brand and create templates for images and content upgrades. It’s a ton of fun, but the cost can add up quickly.
So, it’s time to face the facts: do you really need to hire a designer to work on your blog?
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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?
**This information is for InDesign CC 2015.4
As I’ve discussed before, InDesign has so many awesome tools available to you.
It took me a little bit of time to get used to everything and figure out what tools I use the most often. But how that I know what those tools are, I want them easily accessible!
So, how can we do that? Luckily, it’s super easy!
