Archive for April, 2010

The Guide: Step Two – Photograph Your Item (Part 2)

Thursday, April 29th, 2010

Natural Daylight Much belated, but as promised, how to photograph your item in natural light. The item I am using is a pair of earrings which feature some fake pearls in a pastel green color. There are several problems with photographing in natural light, and several benefits.  Let me say right off the bat that [...]

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PMC! and How To write a tutorial when you have no spare time

Thursday, April 22nd, 2010

Taking photos for a tutorial takes a lot of time.  So, if you want to write how-tos but you’re really busy, you can save a lot of time by writing one about something you don’t need to take photos for. Pictures are VERY important to blogging, especially for how-tos.  You can’t just write without them.  [...]

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Blogging Tools: ScribeFire Review

Tuesday, April 20th, 2010

I’m skipping over posting by email because I’ll never use it and I don’t want to take the time to figure it out. ScribeFire sits down at the bottom right corner of your browser window until you click on it.  When you do that it will either slide up, covering the bottom half of whatever [...]

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How to update your blog without ever actually visiting your blog: MS Word

Tuesday, April 20th, 2010

There are so many different apps, addons, plugins, and free tools for posting to your blog or your twitter account that there is practically no reason to ever actually stop what you’re doing to update your blog. Writing a research paper? Update your blog from MS Word while you’re at it. Checking your email? Most [...]

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How To: Get Your Work Featured

If you want to get your site, your shop, your tutorial, or whatever featured on my blog, it really isn't that hard.

I do visit the websites of every person who comments here, and if I see something I like, I'll at least tweet about it.

Or there's the straightforward method of emailing me and saying, "Hi, I found your blog and thought you might like to feature my site/shop/tutorial/emu/whatever." I have no problem with gratuitous self-promotion, as long as it's tactfully done.