Blogging Tips & Tools
Having trouble coming up with blog ideas? Check out these inspiring tips and tools to boost your blogging.
The page is regularly updated 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.
Contents
- Blog Voices
- Blogging
- Writing
- Designing
- Accessibility
- Optimization
- Add-Ons
- Discover Blogs
- What to Blog About?
- Useful Resources
- Webrings
- Blog Challenges
- 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.
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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
- Some blogging myths
- 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
- Why do you blog
- You should write blogs
- 15 rules for blogging
- Why blogging
- Take care of your blog
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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
- The ultimate guide to writing online
- How to start a writing habit
- Stop Giving af and Start Writing More
- Your Writing
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Designing
Top-notch resources for creating a personal blog design that is not only visually stunning, but also user-friendly and efficient.
Backgrounds
- CSS3 Patterns Gallery
- CSS Background Patterns
- Hero Patterns
- Polka Dot Generator
- Subtle Patterns
- uiGradients
Buttons
Colors
- Adobe Color
- Color Hunt
- Color Palettes
- CoolHue 2.0
- Coolors
- Colourco
- Endless Color Combos
- Gradient Generator
- HTML named colors
- Material Palette
- Material UI
- Shadow Palette Generator
CSS
- CSS Bed
- CSS Icon Library
- CSS Shapes
- CSS-Tricks
- CSS Tutorial
- CSS Validation Service
- Modern CSS Solutions
- CSS Stats
Fonts
- Beautiful Web Type
- Bunny Fonts
- Enfont Terrible
- Font Awesome
- Fontfabric
- Font pairing made simple
- Font Pairings
- Font Squirrel
- Google Fonts
- Mixfont
- Open Foundry
- The League of Moveable Type
- Typespiration
HTML
- HTML head elements guide
- HTML Recipes
- Learn Web Development
- Markup Validation Service
- Plain Vanilla
- Tiny Helpers
- What is HTML?
- HTML for People
Icons & Symbols
- Flaticon
- Font Awesome Icons
- Fontello
- Handcrafted and Lovely Icons
- HTML Symbols
- Iconfinder
- Ionicons
- Ligature Symbols
- Lordicon – animated icons
- Material Symbols & Icons
- Microns
- Octicons
- Simple Icons
- Super Tiny Icons
- Tabler – free open source icons
- Typicons
- Icons 8
Inspiration
Photos
Tools & Guides
- Adding meta tags, manifest, and favicons
- Check your meta tags, icons, and rss feeds
- Components AI
- Know it all
Videos
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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
- Using the language attribute to make your website accessible
- Write helpful Alt Text to describe images
- WhoCanUse — color contrast checker
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Optimization
A great set of website optimization tools that will help you enhance your blog’s performance and user experience.
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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
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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
- Blog of the Day
- Minifeed
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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
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Useful Resources
Great resources about blogging, whether you’ve just started a blog or you’re an experienced blogger who wants to level up.
- Echo – RSS cross poster
- Markdown Guide
- omg.lol
- Own your web
- People and blogs
- Slash pages
- Subscribe Openly
- The great list of all the blog platforms
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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
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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.
- Junited (June)
- Blaugust (August)
- SeptemBest (September)
- NaBloPoMo (November)
- Writing Month (November)
- 100 Days To Offload (Yearly)
- IndieWeb Carnival (Monthly)
- Fifty In 50 (no timeframe)
- The 100 Pics (no timeframe)
- 30 questions for me and for you (no timeframe)
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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.