How frustrating is it when you've written a blog post and you want to share the post on Facebook but the link doesn't work correctly? Maybe the photo is wrong, or it won't show the correct heading, or a snippet of text? Well Facebook does provide a service where you can paste in your link, …
I am a font freak. I've talked about it so many times and I've done lots of blog posts on my favourite fonts and how to download them. If you are like me, then sometimes all of those fonts makes your head spin! How do you pick one to use for a project? What if …
Over the last few weeks I have been helping some friends/clients get their websites up and running. They've been relatively easy jobs with basic content. This good. Why? Because I think every business needs a website no matter how small you might be. Here are the reasons why... You're never closed. Even when you're not …
Is your blog photo ready? I think it's important to put effort in to how your photos look on your blog. For me, I always think about how I will use my photos across all of my social media channels when I write a blog post. Sometimes I use my phone to take photos (which …
I am still trying to work Facebook out. It drives me crazy some days. I use it a lot and it is useful for promoting my blog, but sometimes I can't work out why some Facebook updates get a lot of attention and other days it does nothing for me. Over the weekend I shared …
A lovely blogger wrote to me yesterday who has an awesome Instagram account to ask what I thought about companies asking to use her Instagram photos on their website/catalogues/magazine... So, for example, what if you were sent an item from a company, were happy to style it up in your home, take an awesome photo, …
I've been thinking about this post for a while... but I wasn't sure how it would come out, but here goes... I like to read a sponsored post. I really do. There is a good reason why I like to read a sponsored post written by another blogger. I know that from a blogger's perspective …
Those of you who follow me lots will know I recently changed back to an iPhone 6 from the Samsung S4... I know I am eating my words here because I was singing the praises of the Samsung at the time, but as it turned out, it just wasn't cutting it for me... The Samsung …
1. Use a white background Creating as much white space as possible helps to showcase what really matters - your writing/photos! You want your readers to focus on your content. A white background presents your blog as fresh, clean and sophisticated. Busy backgrounds will hurt your blog (not to mention your eyes). Also, a patterned …
Photos are very popular on social networks. They tend to drive the most engagement on popular websites, such as Facebook and Twitter. However, Instagram is not like Facebook or Twitter where you can add a link to your comments to ask people to click to visit your website/blog, so you need to be a little …
A few months ago Trend Mirco contacted me and asked if I'd like to review their security product and coincidentally my current provider was about to expire. The Universe works in strange ways! The timing couldn't have been better... I spend a lot of time online - surprise, surprise! I need to make sure my …
I was lucky enough to head to News Limited in Sydney yesterday to film a webinar for Kidspot's Voices of 2014. You might remember that I won this title in 2012 (when it was called Kidspot's Top Blogger). Anyway, the competition has grown so much and now they are producing fancy per-recorded webinars in the …
