Blogging 101: Blog Tools – Uptown Oracle https://www.uptownoracle.com Living Your Bookish Life ✨ Fri, 26 Jun 2020 17:44:49 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1 https://i0.wp.com/www.uptownoracle.com/755/2021/05/cropped-Uptown-Oracle-Logo-File-NOTAG.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Blogging 101: Blog Tools – Uptown Oracle https://www.uptownoracle.com 32 32 117146186 Blogging 101: Design Tools for Bloggers https://www.uptownoracle.com/blogging-101-design-tools-for-bloggers/ Sun, 24 May 2020 18:01:00 +0000 https://www.uptownoracle.com/?p=6556 Love blogging and writing content but can’t quite get the look of your blog and/or images right? No problem! I’ve used so many different tools over the years to try and get my blog and it’s images to look exactly how I want it to. Here’s some of the standout design tools that I’ve loved using. […]

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]]> 6556 Stock Images, Hotlinking, and Other Image Issues for Bloggers https://www.uptownoracle.com/stock-images-hotlinking-and-other-image-issues-for-bloggers/ https://www.uptownoracle.com/stock-images-hotlinking-and-other-image-issues-for-bloggers/#comments Sun, 17 Nov 2019 17:13:49 +0000 https://www.uptownoracle.com/?p=5709 Being a blogger doesn’t mean you always need to take your own photos! Of course, you can’t just pop onto Google or re-use an image you found on Pinterest because of Copyright. But, you can find a large selection of images online which have been created and licensed for other people to use them on their own sites.

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]]> 2698 Blogging 101: How to Utilise Mailing Lists https://www.uptownoracle.com/blogging-101-how-to-utilise-mailing-lists/ https://www.uptownoracle.com/blogging-101-how-to-utilise-mailing-lists/#comments Mon, 28 May 2018 16:00:09 +0000 https://www.uptownoracle.com/?p=2697 If you’re up for creating even more content then maybe a mailing list is for you. Mailing lists are often used to remind readers of what you’ve recently posted, but it can also be a great tool to engage them with your brand, and the promise of exclusive content on a weekly or monthly basis […]

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