The Captivating Life: Resources

Blog Design

BloggerSentral: great tutorials for widgets and blog design
The Blog Designer Network, including a directory for free blog backgrounds
Design Seeds: a great source for gorgeous colour palette inspiration
Favicon Generator
"Grab My Button" Code Generator
Image Mapping Tool
Shabby Blogs: a site for free blog design items
Sneaky Momma Blog Design: lots of useful tips on blog design for the beginner blogger
Something Swanky: check out the "DIY Design" section, which has lots of great blog design guides, plus this awesome video
Spice Up Your Blog: a blogging resource site

Blogging Tips, Tricks and Guides

95 Useful Articles for Food Bloggers at The Hungry Australian
"Bites for Growing Your Blog" by Sally at Sally's Baking Addiction: a five-part series about blogging, including design, your online personality, blog content and strategies, photography, and social media and marketing
Blog Etiquette by DIY Showoff at Simply Klassic - part of Simply Klassic's Beginner Blogger's Club series
"Food Blogging": an insightful article by David Lebovitz
Recipe Attribution: an overview by David Lebovitz at Food Blog Alliance
Ten (Super Rad) Blog Post Ideas at Joy the Baker

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Online Photo Editors

Photography

12 Edible Food Styling Tips for Bloggers at foodblogforum.com
Food Photography Basics at Sally's Baking Addiction
Food Photography: Principles of Design at Gourmande in the Kitchen
Food Photography Tips at Bella Eats
Food Styling Tips for Bloggers at Will Write for Food
My Take on Food Styling and Photography at 6 Bittersweets: comprehensive overview of photography, styling and composition basics
Photography 101 at Kitchen Wench: a series of posts about food photography
Photography Tutorials at Taylor Takes a Taste
A Quick Guide to Understanding Your Digital SLR at Kevin and Amanda
When Good Food Looks Bad: A Styling Post at Running with Tweezers: lots of different examples of styling one difficult-to-photograph food