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

[wekilledcouture]

i used to do that too
but i find uploading externally much better.
plus if you ever want to change from blogger.. you do not lose all of your images in the posts.

 

[markese91]

i used to do that too
but i find uploading externally much better.
plus if you ever want to change from blogger.. you do not lose all of your images in the posts.

this is true but unless you know coding, some widgets will not work unless you upload the image to blogger.

 

[Andrea.RL]

I just made a tumblr account, started posting a bit, and wondered what RSS was... And how do people follow you on tumblr?
Also has anyone heard about posterous?

I'm still looking for a good blogging site where I can put up an online closet sell/creation sell... Anyone with tips?

 

[markese91]

I just made a tumblr account, started posting a bit, and wondered what RSS was... And how do people follow you on tumblr?

A RSS is the feed used to like keep up with your blog. It is an archive of all your blog posts. If someone subscribes to it they'll get everything you blog sent to them.

To follow someone on Tumblr there is normally a follow button once you're on their blog.

 

[ched]

RSS = Really Simple Syndication

It's your article contents packaged in a standard format. Essentially a text file that has copies of recent posts in a way that other sites can read. Go to the bottom of http://www.tmz.com/ and look at "Around The Web," all those article titles are being pulled from the RSS feeds of the various sites. Generally an RSS feed includes 10 or 15 recent posts, and as new content is added the older material gets replaced.

You can go to other blogs and get their RSS link, then use a widget to display their headlines and sometimes summaries on your own site.

 

[Andrea.RL]

^oh! Thank you both for clearing that up

I just found out you could import your tumblr on other website! That's just what I needed. I think I'm going to stick with blogger, and put my new tumblr on it.

 

[FASHIONLOVA]

how can i promote my blog i have like no readers and no followers!!???

 

[ched]

how can i promote my blog i have like no readers and no followers!!???

This advice thread is 80 pages long. If you've read it and are still asking that, I'm not sure anyone can help you.

 

[FASHIONLOVA]

good point. i only read few pages back. thanx

 

[McClaire]

We just did a major makeover on modaCYCLE's front page. Custom wordpress development, adjusting our existing theme elements, allowed us to make it look a lot less like a blog on the front page. Still working on making the interior pages more magazine-like, but it's still a big change for us.

Ched- Do you use wordpress .org or .com?

 

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[ShoeLady]

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

I have worked for a few online fashion mags/blogs. I believe I have the skills to start my own and would like to, only I don't know where to begin. Does anyone have a blog, specifically a fashion blog? Where did you begin etc? I am also not positive about the objective. I would like to give an insiders view of the NY fashion world- I work for a large conde nast magazine- I think that would be interesting. But is there already a blog like this out there? I don't want to be a copy-cat.

 

[McClaire]

We just did a major makeover on modaCYCLE's front page. Custom wordpress development, adjusting our existing theme elements, allowed us to make it look a lot less like a blog on the front page. Still working on making the interior pages more magazine-like, but it's still a big change for us.

Ched- Do you use wordpress .org or .com?

 

[therawpower]

wordpress is COMPLICATED =(

 

[markese91]

I have worked for a few online fashion mags/blogs. I believe I have the skills to start my own and would like to, only I don't know where to begin. Does anyone have a blog, specifically a fashion blog? Where did you begin etc? I am also not positive about the objective. I would like to give an insiders view of the NY fashion world- I work for a large conde nast magazine- I think that would be interesting. But is there already a blog like this out there? I don't want to be a copy-cat.

Lol everyone from the old thread has a blog and I'd encourage you to go read it a little and that should give you a base from which to start thinking about your blog.

About being a copy cat, don't really wory about it. I mean most bloggers are like mini editors, as I am. We kind of get all of this information and curate it into what we deem relevant, and we portray that with our own voice. This is what makes people come to us instead of someone else, not all the time because we have the newest information, or all the information, but instead because of the way we relate it and because of our voice.

I have a friend who recently stopped his blog but he worked for a large fashion company and he lived in new york. He traveled with his boss to all the fashion weeks and he was always at the parties and he started a very Gossip Girl esque type blog. It was going well and just as he was about to get alot of attention he made it private and it was still a great blog it's just sad that not that many people knew about it. I say all that to say that you can really pretty much copy someone else's format but because you're not them and you really can't write like they do, and you're going to portray yourself anyway, there's going to be a difference. If not though, readers will know and figure... why buy Grey Ant when I can purchase Lanvin??

 

[ched]

Ched- Do you use wordpress .org or .com?

We have our own server and use the software from WordPress.org along with a pro template and some custom coding. We also recently got linked up with a content delivery network, so all our new images are being served from a cloud system instead of just the one server, which speeds up image serving and page load times tremendously.

 

[ched]

wordpress is COMPLICATED =(

Printing your own newspaper would be so much more complicated. If you want to do it right, you just need to learn how the bits and pieces work. If you think WordPress is bad, try playing with Joomla.

 

[McClaire]

We have our own server and use the software from WordPress.org along with a pro template and some custom coding. We also recently got linked up with a content delivery network, so all our new images are being served from a cloud system instead of just the one server, which speeds up image serving and page load times tremendously.

Thank you. I really want to have a wordpress.org sometime early next year and am still doing research on it. I think it's much better then .com from what I'm reading but it still makes my head spin since I'm not very tech savvy. I think I'll just sign up for one of their server hosts

 

[ched]

That's probably a good idea. Administrating your own server is fairly complicated. I have to do a lot of web searches when things go wrong. I enjoy figuring things like that out, but if you don't then having someone else be the administrator is probably a good idea. A lot of hosting companies have WordPress as optional software already in the system.