2011 March

March 22, 2011 By BDN Administrator

  One of the things I love most about using HootSuite for Twitter, is the ability to schedule Tweets. Did you know you can also use HootSuite to schedule things to post on your Facebook page? I’ll show you just how easy it is………….. You need to start with a HootSuite Account and sign in. […]

2010 April

April 19, 2010 By BDN Administrator

This week’s Beautiful Blog feature is a WordPress.org blog called GoodNCrazy.The owner, Carissa, is an amazing woman -in her life prior to motherhood and blogging, she was a molecular biologist (WOW!) but now enjoys writing at GoodNCrazy about her family, photography, parenting, food and more. What I love about GoodNCrazy: Amazing, unique header! Love the […]

2009 August

August 31, 2009 By BDN Administrator

This week’s Beautiful Blog is All Things Heart and Home. Robin, a vivacious and creative “empty-nester” is the owner of All Things Heart and Home and she has done a simply lovely job with this blog! She writes about family (she has four grown children and one grandaughter), decorating, cooking and lots more. What do […]

2009 January

January 25, 2009 By BDN Administrator

I just love the name “Sherbet Blossom Designs!” It’s original, catchy and creates a lovely vision in your mind without ever seeing the product. However, you are equally delighted when you see the beautiful blogs, websites and banners produced there. The owner, Hannah, is a work-at-home mom who is a graphic designer for a publishing […]

Business Directory

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Business Name: Purely Sensible Design

Business Genre: Blog & Web Designers

Long Business Description: We specialize in custom blog design for self-hosted WordPress blogs as well as Blogger and WordPress.com blogs. We also specialize in website & graphic design, and we offer consultation services and a variety of a la carte services to meet your needs.

Business Tags: blog design, Blogger, Graphic Design, Website Design, WordPress

Business Directory

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Business Name: Deluxe Designs

Business Genre: Blog & Web Designers

Long Business Description: We know you want to make a good impression! We want your website or blog to shine. If you want a high-quality, up-to-date, design that goes above and beyond, if you want a design that is simply deluxe, then look to Deluxe Designs!

Business Tags: blog designer, calligraphy, hand-drawn, photographers, watercolor, WordPress

2011 November

November 22, 2011 By BDN Administrator bdncssspritetutorial-150x66-7650519

Many designers use various techniques for linking images on a website, and making those images change upon hover. From image maps, to slicing each image individually – the page load time and usability of these techniques aren’t as optimal as using CSS image sprites.  Here is a quick way to create a functional and user-friendly […]

2011 April

April 13, 2011 By BDN Administrator pboutage1-150x150-8909657

In the past few days, many bloggers and designers (mostly on the Blogger platform) have been affected by the “outage” at Photobucket that leaves many blogs looking something like this:   Photobucket claims about 2% of users have been affected by this maintenance phase, which is lasting much longer than initially planned.  For a lot […]

2011 January

January 3, 2011 By BDN Administrator step-1-150x150-9629468

Here at Beautiful Blog Designs, Amanda recently posted on using Joliprint to create printables of blog posts.  Today I’m going to show you how to use Print Friendly in a similar manner. To start, you want to find a blog post that you’d like to print. I am choosing A Weekend Staple at the Polka […]

2010 December

December 31, 2010 By BDN Administrator

Twitter has this great little organization feature called Twitter Lists. Twitter Lists has been around for about a year now, but I’ve only recently started to utilize them and realize what a great tool they are! Twitter Lists lets you organize a “group” of people on Twitter. If you’re like me, you probably follow lots […]