May 19, 2011 By BDN Administrator

Isn’t color a lovely thing to have? It brightens, darkens, defines and suggests. Hopefully, the colors on your blog do all these things in a pleasurable please-stay-and-even-come-back-again kind of way. If you’re stuck in a color rut, then today is your lucky day. Here are a few of my favorite places to go for color […]

November 14, 2010 By BDN Administrator

Are you new to WordPress.org? Or, are you thinking about moving from Blogger, but aspects of WordPress (like plug-ins) intimidates you? Well, if you are anything like me, the word “plug-in” stresses you out. Before I started a WordPress.org blog, Everyday Elements, I would hear others talking about plug-ins and they seemed so complicated and […]

January 26, 2010 By BDN Administrator

This giveaway is now closed. Congratulations to the winner, Summer, comment #17, from Lady Luck’s Abode!  (I usually paste in the Random.org part here, but I exited out of the page and can’t get back. It was #17, I promise LOL).   Today we have the Grand Prize to finish off the birthday bash for […]

December 22, 2009 By BDN Administrator

This is something I did a while ago, but never thought about making a post or tutorial out of it, until I was reading a friend’s blog this morning. Sharon, at Good, True and Beautiful, did a post a few months ago on how to make your Blogger profile a little spiffier. I have multiple […]

October 19, 2009 By BDN Administrator

Surprise! I finally have a Beautiful Blog Series post to share! Not that there aren’t tons of beautiful blogs out there to choose from, but rather I haven’t had time to blog about them. Today I am featuring Have Joy, a delightful blog by Nikki. She is a single mom of two beautiful daughters and […]

July 27, 2009 By BDN Administrator

This week’s beautiful blog is Mulberry Spot. The blog is owned by Hannah, a mom of three young children and she writes about gardening, sewing, cooking and homeschooling. I chose Mulberry Spot to show how by simply having a beautiful, well designed header for your blog can change a blog from bland to beautiful. She […]

May 29, 2009 By BDN Administrator

After watching my SiteMeter referrals obsessively occasionally, I noticed that I had a some traffic coming from individual blogs. How could that be? Well, after heading over there, I saw that they had my button on their blog, or listed me in their blog roll. So, I decided to return the favor and I am […]

March 11, 2009 By BDN Administrator

I am sorry I have been away for a few days. My father, who is battling brain cancer, has been in the hospital and it has been a challenge to juggle my family, housework, Usborne Books (my side business), trips to the hospital and blogging. Obviously, blogging took a back seat to everything else. However, […]

December 16, 2011 By BDN Administrator

It’s easy to implement custom fonts onto your blog or website!  This tutorial is for both Blogger and WordPress, and will teach you how to choose a custom font for various areas of your site using the free Google Web Font repository.  For a larger selection, you can also try a Typekit membership.  You can […]