Thank you for nominating this blog for Best Garden Blog Design. I’ve put a lot of thought and hours into the design, and I’m pleased that you appreciate my efforts.
According to the Mouse & Trowel website, “the Mouse & Trowel Awards were created by freelance writer and garden blogger Colleen Vanderlinden to honor and reward […]
Blogging Art and Practice Entries
Cold Climate Gardening garners a Mouse and Trowel nomination
April 26th, 2008 by Kathy Purdy · 6 Comments
Categories: About this site · Blogging Art and Practice
Keywords: blog awards · web design
Promote your blog with Moo mini cards
February 26th, 2008 by Kathy Purdy · 13 Comments
I just wrote a post for the Garden Bloggers Spring Fling suggesting that all attendees have some kind of card to trade at the meet-up. Moo mini cards are my hands-down favorite, but the price is kind of high.
These cards are a great way to promote your blog
Even if you’re not going to the Spring […]
Categories: Blogging Art and Practice
Keywords: moo cards · spring fling
The Garden Blog Presentation at the GWA Symposium
December 24th, 2007 by Kathy Purdy · 12 Comments
For those of you just joining us, this past fall I spent a week traveling to visit friends in Austin and to attend the Garden Writers Association symposium in Oklahoma City, where I agreed to be part of a team presenting on garden blogs. My original intention was to chronicle my entire trip from airport […]
Categories: Blogging Art and Practice
Keywords: GWA · Oklahoma City
Why don’t more older gardeners blog?
November 20th, 2007 by Kathy Purdy · 60 Comments
I was one of several garden bloggers inteviewed by Doug Green for an article on garden blogging for The American Gardener, which is published by the American Horticultural Society. I thought the article was a good overview for beginners on the topic, not going too deeply into the technology behind blogging but maintaining accuracy.
Really, you […]
Categories: About this site · Blogging Art and Practice
Keywords: gardener
Blogging Art and Practice: The website
October 16th, 2007 by Kathy Purdy · 11 Comments
I’m starting a new website to explain blogging and related technical matters in plain English. It’s called Blogging Art and Practice.
There are some things about blogging that involve technical skill or know-how. I call those practices. I strive to use the best practices, to make my blog easier for people to read, for search […]
Categories: Blogging Art and Practice
Keywords: blog design · web design
Bah, humbug
August 9th, 2007 by Kathy Purdy · 23 Comments
In my sidebar under “Pecking Order” I used to have a Top 100 Gardening Sites badge. It was an amusing way to keep track of how I stood in relationship to other gardening websites–or so I thought. Recently, a quick check of Garden Rant’s Sitemeter revealed that they had far more visitors than this website, […]
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Blogging tips wanted–for garden writers
July 6th, 2007 by Kathy Purdy · 75 Comments
As I mentioned recently, I’m going to Oklahoma City this fall to participate in a panel discussion on garden blogs. Yes, these professional writers, accustomed as they are to newspaper, magazine, television, radio, and even marketing work, are a bit intimidated and confused by blogging–so I’m told. Some are downright misinformed. So, along with Mary […]
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