Beautiful Blog Designs: June 2010

Monday, June 21, 2010

Beautiful Blog Series: The Homeschool Chick

Today I am featuring a Blogger blog, The Homeschool Chick, a blog run by Sue, a homeschooling mom who writes about homeschooling, her faith, photography, blogging and the little things that tickle her.

What I love about The Homeschool Chick:

Clean, cute design that is fresh and cheerful.
Lots of white space, which is easier on the reader's eyes.
Very well organized sidebars, with important things like how to contact and follow up top for the readers to find.
Creative and engaging About page.
Well written posts with text broken into smaller chunks, easier for the readers to follow.
Pictures with most posts, which help to engage the reader and illustrate the point of the post.

The Homeschool Chick was designed by Designer Blogs, the design studio who created BBD's look also. They are so wonderful and I love the look they created for Sue.

Congratulations, Sue, on having such a beautiful blog! Here is a button if you'd like to share this feature with your readers.

It's been a few weeks since my last Beautiful Blog Feature. Even though the features don't seem to get many comments, I do get lots of feedback about them via emails or on Twitter, so I keep doing them. Also, I think it is good for new bloggers to see what a beautiful blog consists of, because it's not all about the design.

If you'd like to see all the past Beautiful Blog Series features, simply click on Beautiful Blog Series in the Categories section in the sidebar.

Thursday, June 17, 2010

Sneaky Giveaway

THIS GIVEAWAY IS NOW CLOSED

(Winner listed at the bottom)

I have been super busy with photography and editing, something I'll share more about in another post. To help me keep BBD up and running, I'm getting some help from two other great bloggers. We'll be brainstorming to come up with new and fun things for Beautiful Blog Designs, so stay tuned. If you're interested in doing a guest post here at BBD, please email me.

Until the new things get implemented, I will have a few giveaways to liven things up. I have two giveaways, one that will happen next week and the other the first week in July. BUT, first, I thought I'd throw in a sneaky little giveaway. I'm not going to promote this anywhere but here and Twitter a few times because I want the winner to be someone who follows BBD already.

Do you see the sponsor buttons in the sidebar? Those are all talented designers, whom I would recommend in a skinny minute. I am giving away $25 in design work from any one of those designers - winner gets to choose! Wordpress.com and .org bloggers, don't worry, a few of the sponsors design for those platforms also.

To enter simply leave a comment telling your blogging platform (Blogger, Wordpress, Typepad, etc.) and if you've ever changed platforms before.

One entry per person. Giveaway ends Sunday, June 20th, at 10:00 PM EST.

Congratulations to Dr. Mom from Confessions of a Dr. Mom! She had comment number #16 and can choose which BBD sponsor she'd like design work from.

Thank you to all who entered. Don't worry, I have more giveaways coming up so more things to win!