Start a blog

“After weeks of deliberation, I decided that my blog would be focused on reviewing the books I read and in late October of 2006, I published my first post on Everyday Reading (it was a review of Baby Proof by Emily Giffin). I used a standard template on Blogger, and I didn’t know the first thing about html, photography, or pretty much anything blogging related, but I jumped right in with the goal of reviewing one book per week.”

“I wanted a blog I could update and manage myself, so needed a user-friendly system. Kary Fisher, co-founder of Talented Ladies Club and uber-talented freelance illustrator and branding expert, had recommended Weebly for my Wardrobe Wand website, so I decided to use their blog package. I’m very far from a technical genius, but I managed to build my blog myself, and find it reassuringly easy to navigate. And so my New Year’s Resolution of ‘Start a Blog’ finally became reality on the 7th January, when the children had gone back to school. Once it was live, it was a case of proving to myself that I could actually diarise my outfits daily, Monday to Friday.”

“Facebook pages for blogs weren’t a thing, Instagram hadn’t been invented yet, Pinterest was still years in the future, and the idea of optimizing your site for SEO or taking professional-quality photos was very unusual. I’d just get on to Blogger, pound out a post with no pictures and press publish.”