Blog Inspiration 💡
Having trouble coming up with blog ideas? Check out these inspiring tips and tools to boost your blogging.
The page is regularly updated (last updated 1 week, 3 days ago) with new links, resources, and useful guides to enhance your blogging experience and make it even more enjoyable. Is anything missing? Please let me know.
Content
💬 Blog Voices
💻 Blogging
📝 Writing
🎨 Designing
🌐 Accessibility
⚙️ Optimization
📦 Add-Ons
🔎 Discover Blogs
🗓️ What to Blog About?
🛠️ Tools & Inspiration
🕸️ Webrings
🏆 Blog Challenges
🐻 Bear Blog
💨 BlogBoost
💬 Blog Voices
Get inspired by reading other bloggers' stories about why they do what they do, how they do it, and how they find inspiration for their blog posts.
💻 Blogging
Inspiring and encouraging blog posts about blogging, written by experienced bloggers. Great resources to ignite the creative flame, whether you're a newbie or a pro.
- Advice on blogging
- Blog what you like
- Some blogging myths
- Give your blog a name
- Why you should have a website
- I am a poem I am not software
- Nobody cares about your blog
- Why you should start a blog right now
- Why you should have a blog (and write in it)
- Why have a personal site instead of social media?
- Why a personal site rather than social media presence?
- A personal site versus social media
- Everyone should blog, and that includes you
- Why I blog. You should too.
- Get blogging
- Free blogging advice
📝 Writing
Great articles about writing in general and crafting blog posts in particular. Inspiring reading, whether you're a novice or an expert.
- Why and how to write things on the Internet
- Thoughts on writing: shitty first drafts
- Just write
- How I approach crafting a blog post
- Writing is thinking
- The ultimate guide to writing online
- How to start a writing habit
🎨 Designing
Top-notch resources for creating a personal blog design that is not only visually stunning, but also user-friendly and efficient.
- Inspirational Blog Designs
- Color palettes
- Adobe Color
- Endless Color Combos
- Tabler – free open source icons
- Google Fonts
- CSS Bed
- CSS-Tricks
- Markup Validation Service
- CSS Validation Service
- CSS Tutorial
- Plain Vanilla
- Learn Web Development
- HTML Recipes
🌐 Accessibility
A collection of essential guidelines, best practices, and tools designed to help you create an accessible blog.
- Introduction to Web Accessibility
- Web Accessibility Checklist
- Usability & Web Accessibility
- Contrast Checker
- Link Contrast Checker
- Readability Test
- How to make your blog accessible to blind readers
- Is your blog printer-friendly?
- Using the language attribute to make your website accessible
⚙️ Optimization
A great set of website optimization tools that will help you enhance your blog’s performance and user experience.
📦 Add-Ons
A list of add-ons that can be integrated with your current blogging platform to enhance its functionality.
- Komments – add comments to your blog
- Letterbird – free contact form
- Tinylytics – a joyful analytics tool
- Buttondown – create a newsletter
- Guestbooks – free and simple guestbook
- Tally – simple way to create forms
- PrintFriendly Print Button
- Status: status.lol · shoutouts.lol
🔎 Discover Blogs
What better way to get inspired than reading other people’s blogs? Here are some good way to explore the blogosphere.
- A Blog Directory
- Blogroll – curated list of personal blogs
- Feedle – a blog search engine
- ooh.directory – a place to find good blogs
- PersonalSit.es – hot and fresh sites
- Bear Blog: Trending · Recent
- Scribbles: Blogs · Posts
- Micro.blog Discover
- IndieBlog.page
- Search My Site
- About Ideas Now
- A list of /now pages
- A list of /uses pages
- Indieseek Weblog Directory
💭 What to Blog About?
Are you struggling to find topics to write about on your blog? Take a look at these helpful posts to ignite your writing inspiration.
- Daily prompts
- 50 ideas for blog posts
- 100 things you can do on your personal website
- 100 (more) things you can do with your personal website
- What to blog about when you don’t know what to blog about
- 100 blog post topics to write about
- Blog Prompts
🛠️ Tools & Inspiration
Great resources about blogging, whether you've just started a blog or you’re an experienced blogger who wants to level up.
- The great list of all the blog platforms
- Echo – RSS cross poster
- Unsplash – beautiful free images
- Markdown Guide
- omg.lol
- Slash pages
- People and blogs
- Own your web
🕸️ Webrings
A webring is a network of interconnected blogs. Each blog in the ring features a navigation bar, typically located at the bottom of the site, containing links to the previous and next blog in the webring.
- An IndieWeb Webring
- Bucket Webring
- Retronaut
- Fediring
- Geekring
- The Safonts Webring
- The Old Net
- XXIIVV
- CSS Joy
- a11y-webring.club
- Wayward Web
🏆 Blog Challenges
Blog challenges are interactive events with a shared goal or theme over a specific period. They are designed to encourage creativity, develop a consistent posting habit, and foster a sense of community among participants.
- WeblogPoMo (May)
- Junited (June)
- July Reply (July)
- Blaugust (August)
- SeptemBest (September)
- NaBloPoMo (November)
- Writing Month (November)
- 100 Days To Offload (Yearly)
- IndieWeb Carnival (Monthly)
- Fifty In 50 (no timeframe)
🐻 Bear Blog
Tips, tricks and tweaks made specifically for Bear blog, an awesome blogging platform on which this blog of mine is hosted (those marked with * requires an upgraded account).
- Bearming Theme
- BearBoost Shortcut
- Convert bear blog csv exports to markdown files
- Random link (external)
- Random link (internal) *
- Add external link markers
- Add a search feature *
- Estimated reading time *
- Customizing the upvote button
- Count your posts
- Adding a "reply via email" button
- Adding a private feedback box *
- Edit the post you are currently viewing
BlogBoost 💨
BlogBoost is an Apple shortcut with various ways to get the inspiration flowing, such as daily prompts and random inspiring quotes. It supports a wide range of text editors. Check out the BlogBoost post for more information.