Advice about Starting & Promoting a Fashion Blog - See Post #1 for Thread Rules

[B.L.U.E]

Hey, i'm a posting virgin. this is my first time and I'm sure I'm repeating some queries so I apologise in advance! I just recently moved to Edinburgh and have fallen in love with the local style..both good and horrid!! I want to start up a streetstyle blog to show the city's style (very cliche at the minute at the minute i know). But i was just wondering if anyone has any advice to give on what makes a streeystyle blog work and what doesn't??
i.e i'd like to keep it based firmly on streetstyle but is that a bad idea etc etc...

thanks for any help you guys can give!!!

 

[TopIntern]

Hi! I'm a fashion intern, trying to make my resume sparkle. I have a fashion blog that I started a while back (right when i started the internship). I was wanting to know if it is polished enough to put on my resume, as a hobby? I was wondering if anyone here would be willing to read over it, and give me some feedback, if possible?

it's at www.ambersmouthwash.blogspot.com You can e-mail me your feed back here if you'd like at fashion spot, or even on the blog page. thank you so much for your help you guys! If you have any tips or advice, I would love it!! Thank you

 

[lastyearsdream]

Hi! I'm a fashion intern, trying to make my resume sparkle. I have a fashion blog that I started a while back (right when i started the internship). I was wanting to know if it is polished enough to put on my resume, as a hobby? I was wondering if anyone here would be willing to read over it, and give me some feedback, if possible?

it's at www.ambersmouthwash.blogspot.com You can e-mail me your feed back here if you'd like at fashion spot, or even on the blog page. thank you so much for your help you guys! If you have any tips or advice, I would love it!! Thank you

I think it's got some potential I would suggest using a custom layout or just cleaning up the picture format, so the words are aligned, etc. You can also do guest blogging on other peoples blogs or work on a group blog, it looks nice on a resume.

 

[TopIntern]

I think it's got some potential I would suggest using a custom layout or just cleaning up the picture format, so the words are aligned, etc. You can also do guest blogging on other peoples blogs or work on a group blog, it looks nice on a resume.

Thank you so much for taking the time to stop by! I would really like to be able to clean up my blog...any advice on how? I mean, I understand myspace, but i'm a little new to "blogspot" formatting. Sometimes it can be so frustrating! thank you for your advice though! Much appriecated!

 

[ElectricAlyce]

Okey - I'm not an expert on blogging, but as a graphic designer, here is some superficial critiques on design

Hey i think this thread is about Fashion Blogging, so

Let me know what you guys think about cyanatrendland.com its my Online fashion Blog'Zine I work on it since 2 years and we have pretty good reviews for now...
Im as well on Wordpress and they definitely the best on the market

For such a well-designed blog, I think the header crashes abit. The rest of the site is great, very clean and classy. Especially the nintendo seems out of place, and the inner glow/shadow thing seems a bit cheap (not really, but against the very classy design on the rest of your site it does). Fix the header-image and you have one of the best-designed blogs I've ever seen

TREVOFASHIONISTO: I like your design, it's not classy at all, and it's not "good design" but it's not supposed to either. It's cheeky, it's nu-rave. But caps is hard and annoying to read, so maybe try to write without the caps =)

SnejanaIsMyMuse: Not much to say to this, clean and simple. Very feminine, but I guess that's the point? Other than that, it's so clean there isn't much more to say. Works! Oh, one thing; make all the images left-aligned. Or centered if you really want to, but it looks abit messy when some are left and some are centered.

Cheetara Jones: I think it's abit all over the place and trying a bit too hard to be commercial and more about making money than what you write. If I just browsed in on it, I'd be very interested when I saw the strong header who was really strong, dark and alluring - then I'd be put off by the white cozy ad. It's a bit too much ads for my sake. It draws too much attention, especially since you have a black background with light gray text which doesn't really scream at you, wich means the ads draws more attention than the content. Also, the content-area is quite wide, which means that since you don't write that much, it ends up as one or two long lines, which appears "weaker" than several short ones

TopIntern: I like the layout and feel of the blog, very candy-cute. Some of the colors doesn't quite go together, and the header-light-blue is abit straining on the eyes against the background-white. If you need some more specific help about customizing the layout, or help with css there is a thread on blog-design

 

[gius]

Can I get your opinion too, on mine ^? Electricalyce
The blog is here
I think it is a little bit all over the place with the pictures everywhere
but maybe it is okay...

 

[ElectricAlyce]

Can I get your opinion too, on mine ^? Electricalyce
The blog is here
I think it is a little bit all over the place with the pictures everywhere
but maybe it is okay...

It's a bit all over the place, yeah ;D But as you said, I think that's okay. (my subjective opinion though, some people need it clean to get easy access to information as quick as possible - some people like it messy to get the best impression)

A couple of notes though:
You have a very "messy" and spontaneous layout with pictures all over the place. In my book you can go for anything as long as you do it a hundred per cent. So if your site is messy, make it messier, if its clean, make it cleaner. You got a "messy" site - so why don't make a bit more messy? I don't mean spreading things around even more and putting in craazy colours etc though The thing I was thinking about was your header, which is very clean (as clean as you can get with sharp orange, anyhow). Try and putting in image there, perhaps a self-made collage or something like that.

Also, go with a consitant colour-scheme. You don't use that many colours in your fonts, so please choose something else than red and orange, it's the two colours that does not work together AT ALL. Just imagine you're a superstar-fashion designer and choose the colors you want for THE dress in your collection. You wouln't make it red and organge

Also, I think you should make the right collumn (with the links and stuff) left-aligned to that you have one line (where the content ends and the right collumn begins) that connects the two. It will create some order in the chaos and tie it all together

Good luck Hope that helped a bit

 

[TREVOFASHIONISTO]

heres my blog..
comments would be nice
located in my signature

 

[MissMagAddict]

Only a handful of member blogs that I've clicked on from tFS have any original content... so as a general comment I would say get some. Because rehashing what you find on tFS or even another fashion blog or website isn't news to me & I'm not interested as I'm sure many others... including people in the industry who might come across your blog wouldn't be either.

 

[gius]

It's a bit all over the place, yeah ;D But as you said, I think that's okay. (my subjective opinion though, some people need it clean to get easy access to information as quick as possible - some people like it messy to get the best impression)

A couple of notes though:
You have a very "messy" and spontaneous layout with pictures all over the place. In my book you can go for anything as long as you do it a hundred per cent. So if your site is messy, make it messier, if its clean, make it cleaner. You got a "messy" site - so why don't make a bit more messy? I don't mean spreading things around even more and putting in craazy colours etc though The thing I was thinking about was your header, which is very clean (as clean as you can get with sharp orange, anyhow). Try and putting in image there, perhaps a self-made collage or something like that.

Also, go with a consitant colour-scheme. You don't use that many colours in your fonts, so please choose something else than red and orange, it's the two colours that does not work together AT ALL. Just imagine you're a superstar-fashion designer and choose the colors you want for THE dress in your collection. You wouln't make it red and organge

Also, I think you should make the right collumn (with the links and stuff) left-aligned to that you have one line (where the content ends and the right collumn begins) that connects the two. It will create some order in the chaos and tie it all together

Good luck Hope that helped a bit

Thanks so much ElectricAlyce
Very interesting comment..
if messy, make it messier I think I will definitely take your advice on that. To make it more consistent
I do like the idea of it being more a scrapbook/sketchbook ..because that's what the blog's function is supposed to be
something about being able to make things by hand

Do you mean there should be a line between the list of links to the contents??

About the font,
it's supposed to be only black red
I think the orange is a "clicked" link...
But yeah I guess red and orange is for fast food restaurants

 

[baudelaire]

hey guys, I just started writing a blog for a well known fashionista as a ghostwriter. My question as I don't get the best seats at the show, I don't know where to get images from the fashion shows to put on the blog, without any copyright issuses. PLEASE HELP ME!!!

best, baudelaire

 

[Fashiongirl1]

shoelady said that she works for a fashion magazine company producing online content.

I was wondering what exactly does that mean, and what is the title for that?

Thanks

 

[homeboy]

shoelady said that she works for a fashion magazine company producing online content.

I was wondering what exactly does that mean, and what is the title for that?

Thanks

It means that she write articles/news/features that's published on a magazine's website. The title is online content producer.

 

[baudelaire]

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hey guys, I just started writing a blog for a well known fashionista as a ghostwriter. My question as I don't get the best seats at the show, I don't know where to get images from the fashion shows to put on the blog, without any copyright issuses. PLEASE HELP ME!!!

best, baudelaire

ANYONE?

 

[Fashiongirl1]

homebody, thanks for clearing that up for me.

 

[kimberwyn]

I haven't posted in here in forever! A new blog just opened with good tips for fashion bloggers: http://prostylebloggers.com/

hey guys, I just started writing a blog for a well known fashionista as a ghostwriter. My question as I don't get the best seats at the show, I don't know where to get images from the fashion shows to put on the blog, without any copyright issuses. PLEASE HELP ME!!!

best, baudelaire

You would need to license the photos from an image agency. Wireimage would probably be best for you because they seem to have all of the photos from every runway show. There are others too like WENN and Filmmagic.

But at the same time, you can "borrow" photos from sites like Getty Images which are watermarked, or others as long as you credit them.

 

[fashionfille]

hello everyone! i had had my blog for about 3 months, and I would love and appreciate any type of feedback about anything. thanks so so much in advance!

http://fashfille.blogspot.com/

 

[ElectricAlyce]

Ok, I'll reply here, fashionfille. The only thing that is really not working on your blog is the colours, which are all over the place. I think I said this in a previous post but I'll say it again:
If you wouldn't buy a garment that consisted of all the colours on your bloglayout then something is wrong!
I know that I would never buy (or wish to see) a garment with the colors you've used, two crashing hues of pink, the navy blue and the dark green (not to mention the light hue of faded lemon green?). Try not to use too many colors, or it will distract the readers from what your blog is really about: the content! The most important things on your blog is what you write and the pictures you post. The blue is incredibly hard to read on the pink, and your pictures are less saturated than the background, which detracts from them, making them less interesting than if they were on a more neutral background.

 

[fashionfille]

fixed?

Ok, I'll reply here, fashionfille. The only thing that is really not working on your blog is the colours, which are all over the place. I think I said this in a previous post but I'll say it again:
If you wouldn't buy a garment that consisted of all the colours on your bloglayout then something is wrong!
I know that I would never buy (or wish to see) a garment with the colors you've used, two crashing hues of pink, the navy blue and the dark green (not to mention the light hue of faded lemon green?). Try not to use too many colors, or it will distract the readers from what your blog is really about: the content! The most important things on your blog is what you write and the pictures you post. The blue is incredibly hard to read on the pink, and your pictures are less saturated than the background, which detracts from them, making them less interesting than if they were on a more neutral background.

ok. thanks! how does it look now? http://fashfille.blogspot.com/

 

[ElectricAlyce]

^Much better!!!
There is still two things I'd like to mention though
Contast is important, especially for text to be readable. Trying to read bright text on bright backgrounds is very straining on the eyes.
Also, think about hierarchy of text. What do you notice first? In a normal blog-post this should be:
1)Title
2)Keywords/important passages to awake interest, or/and a lead paragraph.
3)Pictures and/or main body text
4)Comments, tags and category (not very important)
In your blog, the first I see is "0 COMMENTS", the main content almost disappears beneath it.
But it's really going somewhere, keep it up