Better Blog, Better Design Presentation DPCON13 – Resources
For those of you who were at my session at the Digital Parents Conference, here are links for all the blogs and resources I mentioned in my presentation…
Great Advice for goal setting and blogging in general.
Blog Coaching Boost ebook by Nicole Avery from planning with kids
31 Days to Build a Better Blog by Darren Rowse from Problogger
Image Editing Software
Picmonkey – online some, free, some paid sections
Pixlr – online, free.
Gimp – open source image editing software to download
Photoshop Elements – more basic and cheaper than photoshop but still worthwhile.
Web Fonts
Font Squirrel – free commercial use fonts with options to embed in web page
Google Web Fonts – free commercial use fonts, easy to embed in web page
Colour Schemes
Design Seeds
Design Work Life – the ‘Color Happy’ category
Chip It– creates colour schemes from images
Resources for Learning to Code
Fire Bug – browser add-on
Web Developer Tool Bar – browser add on
Kompozer – open source WYSIWYG html editor
W3schools – css and html tutorials and more advanced web development tutorials
Inspiration for Design
Print and Pattern
Designinspiration
Art and Design Goodness – my pinterest board
Blogs I mentioned or used in examples –
A Farm Girl Dabbles
Foxs Lane
Owlet
74 Lime Lane
Free Range in Suburbia
Planning With Kids
Seth Goddin
All Lego Minifig images used in the presentation were by Trev Grant
Hey Kate,
I found this post via Salz from Salz Dummy Spit. I wasn’t fortunate enough to attend the conference but am interested in getting a blog redesign to make it look a bit more attractive and functional. have you stumbled across anyone who does a mean redesign?
Cheers,
Matt.
Hi Matt,
Send me an email via the contact form – http://katepickle.com/contact/ – and I can help you out with some possibilities. :)