I have not been in the blogging world for to long but there is one thing that I tell every single person that asks me about how to get started and that is you need to use Studiopress to set your blog up! I am a little biased on this but I 100% believe in their product and it could not be simpler to use for beginners. What is amazing with the templates and the framework they use for wordpress is that you can constantly customize the template. The better at coding you get the more customization you will be able to do.

Change Is Always Good

Over the past year I have moved over 4 sites that I have been managing over to wordpress and then ultimately over to the genesis framework Studiopress uses. Not only do the stock templates look amazing, the back-end makes things so simple, that includes SEO into your site.

I Am A Believer

Brian Gardner is the creator of StudioPress and designs most of them. Now there are designers out there that will make customize sites for you but they cost a little bit of money to hire. To purchase a template it is around $80, if you want unlimited templates and support it is around $300. I can personally tell you that was the best purchase I have made in about a year!

Some Of Their Templates

Go there right now and explore all the great templates that they have!

StudioPress Themes for WordPress

Moms used to get all the blogging love. But now some Dads are cashing in on the action.

Today, parenting blogs are as likely to host a display ad for an educational toy or a cosmetics giveaway as they are a post recounting little Joey’s first night in his big-boy bed.

As they initially worked their way into this arena, marketers targeted mom bloggers. Research indicated that mothers did the bulk of household shopping and largely controlled $1.7 million in consumer spending. But the last couple of years has seen a steady boost in blogging about the wonders and woes of child-rearing from the male perspective.

However, there are concerns that as mom and dad bloggers get bogged down with more and more requests to sample products and blog about them, they could become corporate shills.

Check out some other widgets and plugins

1. Imitate your signature yourself using the step-by-step signature creation wizard.
2. Imitate your signature yourself using the on screen signature draw widget.
3. Write your signature with a pencil, pen or a felt-tip pen on a sheet of paper, scan the sheet and let their designers create the signature by sending the scanned image via a special form.

MyLiveSignature prices:

• Create a signature imitation using the Wizard -FREE
• Order a realistic signature from scanned image – $9.95
• Order signature animation – $19.95

Have you used any other free signature sites? Let your fellow Baby Blog Addicts know in the comments below.

She also does custom designs, but her waiting list for custom blog designs is 5 months out, so she’s closed the list for new custom orders for now. That’s one popular designer! Until then, check out her free layouts here.

Have any of you used Leelou’s free layouts? Let us know what you think in the comments section here.

****A revised list about Baby Blog Templates****

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The Cutest Blog on the Block offers some adorable designer backgrounds for free! And best of all, they say that you will NOT loose any information such as links, widgets, or html codes!

This is the first Blogoversary button I’ve come across and you can easily get it for your own blog at blogoversary.com. All you need to do is input your “born date” (or date of your first post) and it will calculate the code for your personalized button. Then add it as a new page element (html) in your blogger sidebar.

If you type in your blog name and blog address, they’ll also showcase your blog on their site when it has its blogoversary, but the address is optional, so don’t include it if you want to keep your blog amongst family and friends only.

• announcements and invitations
• custom scrapbook pages and albums
• business items like logos and business cards
• and our favorite, blog headers and complete blog re-designs

Ready for a new look on your blog, but don’t know where to start? Check out Made Digital’s blog portfolio and reasonable prices. You can get a new header for just $35 or an entire redesign package for just $47.

My favorite post and a great one for all of you Baby Blog Addicts is Blogger Questions & Tips. From “Is it worth putting advertising on my blog?” to “Do you like music on blogs”, this is a great list of 18 blogger tips that you don’t want to miss.

We sometimes write posts in advance for our personal blog and save them to post throughout the week (so the grandparents don’t have withdrawals), but in the past, we still had to log in and publish those pre-written posts each day so they would post to our blog. Now, we can write posts in advance and schedule the date and time in the future for each of them to post to our blog!

Here’s how Blogger explains their new feature:

Scheduling a post is easy to do: on the post editor page, click the “Post Options” toggle to show the “Post date and time” fields. Then, type a post date and time that’s in the future. When you click the “Publish” button, your post will become “scheduled.” When the date and time of the post arrive, it will be automatically published to your blog.

For more details, check out Blogger’s announcement today in Blogger Buzz: “Blogger now schedules future-dated posts.”