Better Your Blog

Are you a new blogger or a seasoned Blogspot or WordPress.com blogger wanting to switch your blog over to self-hosted WordPress? Or, are you wanting to build a website? Then you’ve come to the right place. In this post, we will show you how to start a blog. This tutorial will walk you through you…

July 27, 2021 Whether you are new to WordPress or a seasoned veteran, you may be looking for the best way to organize your blog. We are all looking for ways to be a little more organized, right? Today, I’m going to explain the difference between categories and tags in WordPress, the two main ways…

May 19, 2021 Life can sure get hectic, and sometimes, as a blogger, you may not have the time or even the photography skills necessary to take stunning, high-quality photos for your blog. Today I wanted to share with you my favorite sites with free photos for the blog posts. Free Photos for Your Blog…

March 9, 2021 When choosing the perfect color scheme for your blog, the possibilities are nearly endless. With inspiration around every corner, it can make it challenging to narrow down the options. Fortunately, there are ways of approaching your color choices that won’t leave you grasping at thin air. #1 Use Pinterest for Inspiration Pinterest…

Becoming a successful blogger is all about building credibility. Credibility is the quality of being convincing or believable. In order for your readers to trust you as a blogger, your site needs to come across like you know what you are doing and that you’ve got this blogging thing down (even if in reality you’re…

Today in part two of our mailing list series, we’ll be discussing the steps you need to follow to create a mailing list and add an opt-in form to your site. If you didn’t catch part one of this series, be sure to check the links below before continuing. In this series, we are discussing:…

April 7, 2021 Have you ever seen graphics with a calligraphy font with lots of fancy swirls and lines, but when you got that font, it was plain and boring? It is because of different glyphs available within a single font family. This short guide will show you how to access them and use font…

August 19, 2021 Do you ever feel like there aren’t enough hours to accomplish everything you need to get done each day? Using keyboard shortcuts is a surefire way to increase your productivity and accomplish more work each day. Here at Designer Blogs, we use keyboard shortcuts like mad women to help us dramatically speed…

November 15, 2021 Blogging is not a “get rich quick” kind of thing. Yes, there are bloggers out there who make a killing through their blog, but do you think it happened for them overnight? No! In order to become a successful blogger, it takes patience, practice, hard work, dedication, and a lot of trial…

December 14, 2021 Several times a year we receive frantic emails from clients whose sites have crashed or have been hacked because they failed to keep their site updated. Such situations can be easly avoided just by keeping everything up to date. In this post, I will show you how to update WordPress and keep…