Blogging Tips & Tools
A living hub of blogging resources, from early sparks to fine-tuning. Updated often with new good stuff.
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Voices
Stories from bloggers about why they write, how they keep going, and what sparks their ideas.
- Why We Blog
- Why We Write
- Our Blogging Journey
- Our Blogging Workflow
- Our Blogging Inspiration
- Blog Question Replies
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Blogging
Encouraging posts about blogging itself.
- 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 rather than 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
- A Blog Is Freedom
- One thought
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Writing
Helpful pieces on writing well.
- 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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Design
Make it look good, feel calm, and stay fast.
🎨 Backgrounds
🎛️ Buttons
🎨 Colors
🧩 CSS
🅰️ Fonts
📄 HTML
🔣 Icons & Symbols
- Flaticon
- Font Awesome Icons
- Fontello
- Handcrafted and Lovely Icons
- Heroicons
- HTML Symbols
- Iconfinder
- Ionicons
- Ligature Symbols
- Lordicon – animated icons
- Material Symbols & Icons
- Microns
- Octicons
- Phosphor Icons
- Simple Icons
- Softies
- Super Tiny Icons
- SVG Repo
- Tabler – free open source icons
- Typicons
- Icons 8
🌟 Inspiration
🔖 Logos
📷 Photos
🧰 Tools & Guides
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Accessibility
Build a blog more people can enjoy.
- Accessibility Support
- Contrast Checker
- How to make your blog accessible to blind readers
- Introduction to Web Accessibility
- Link Contrast Checker
- Principles Of Web Accessibility
- Readability Test
- Usability & Web Accessibility
- Using the language attribute to make your website accessible
- Web Accessibility Checklist
- WhoCanUse — color contrast checker
- Write helpful Alt Text to describe images
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Optimization
Handy tools to keep your site quick and tidy.
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Add-ons
Extra features for most blogs.
- 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
Read more blogs, find new favorites.
- 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
- RSS Club
- Bukmark Club
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Ideas
Lists and prompts to kick things back into motion.
- 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
- About Ideas Now
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Resources
A mixed bag of good things for bloggers.
- Echo – RSS cross poster
- Markdown Guide
- omg.lol
- Own your web
- People and blogs
- Slash pages
- Subscribe Openly
- List of blog platforms
- BlogBuddy — a small Apple shortcut with prompts, quotes, and other nudges when you want a fika with your muse.
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Webrings
Small networks of sites that link to each other.
- An IndieWeb Webring
- A Webring List
- Bucket Webring
- Retronaut
- Fediring
- Geekring
- The Safonts Webring
- The Old Net
- XXIIVV
- CSS Joy
- a11y-webring.club
- Wayward Web
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Challenges
Group projects for bloggers.
- Junited (June)
- JulyReply (July)
- 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)