With roughly 95,000 blogs launched worldwide every 24 hours (BlogPulse), making a fledgling site stick out isn’t easy. This authoritative handbook provides creative hopefuls a leg up. Pleasure Cho, of the award-winning Oh Pleasure!, offers expert advice on starting and developing a blog page, from design and finance to overcoming blogger’s block, bringing in readers, and even more. Having a foreword from Grace Bonney of Design*Sponge plus expert interviews, this book will fine-tune what another generation of bloggers stocks with the world.

Learn how to design your site, choose the best platform, entice a fan base, finance your site, maintain function/life balance, control comments, find content inspiration, overcome blogger’s block, choose the right ads, create a tone of voice, protect your work, produce a media kit, leverage your social networking, take better photographs, create an affiliate program, partner with sponsors, build community, move full-time together with your blog, and even more!