December 16, 2010 By Amanda Padgett 
Have you ever come across a wonderful craft or recipe post with lots of instructions and you wanted to print it out or save it to your computer for later use? I used to use ‘print page’ or I selected the text and chose ‘print selection.’ Not long ago a reader at my photography and Photoshop Elements blog, Everyday Elements, turned me onto Joliprint for printing posts and I love it! It is a very simple yet useful tool to make PDFs of blog posts, which you can either print or save. You can add it to your tool bar, for printing at blogs that don’t have a print option. Simply click on the icon … [Read more…]
December 18, 2009 By Amanda Padgett
Okay, I hope this comes as an intervention for some bloggers, but please know that I write this post with love. I visit a LOT of blogs in the “Blogosphere” to find new designers and “beautiful blogs” to feature. More often than not I find blogs that have fallen prey to many design pitfalls. So, I am going to list a few steps you can take to spiffy up your blog so that more readers stick around. Center up the buttons on your sidebars, please. It is so easy to do and it will make your blog look so much better. Simply go to the gadget with that HTML code for the button and add < center … [Read more…]