‘Days to Disney’ Widget

I've seen lots of vacation countdown tickers on blogs, but just discovered this fun one for a trip to Disney. This cute Disney vacation countdown widget is in the famous mouse's ears.You might just have to plan a trip to Disney, so you can add the cute widget to your blog! … [Read more...]

Blog Designer Spotlight: Once Upon a Blog

Here's another fabulous blog designer for all of you Baby Blog Addicts. Jennisa is the designer behind Once Upon A Blog. She is a stay-at-home mom of two who designs blogs in her spare time and has a wait list for a reason...she is very creative and has some adorable blog designs at reasonable prices.Check out her portfolio of blog designs she's already completed. One of my favorite features is that she has some digital design kit options posted that you can look at and let her know which style you would like her to use for your blog. And they are all soooo cute! … [Read more...]

Blog Designer Spotlight: NW Designs

BabyBlogAddict.com was born out of an addiction to baby blogs. At the time, blog designs were pretty standard. Now it's becoming more and more popular to customize your blog and refresh the look every so often (sometimes with the season...other times with the addition of new family members).Since so many of you Baby Blog Addicts have your own blogs, we are going to start to feature some blog designers, in case you want to spice things up on your own blog. Lots of these blog designers are also stay-at-home-moms which is great since we love to feature mom businesses.Here's our first - NW … [Read more...]

Counter Boxes from families.com

We recently highlighted the tickers from families.com. Then we came across their free counter boxes. The counter boxes are similar to the tickers, but easier to install in the right or left column of your blog, because they are not as wide as the tickers.Here are the three they offer: the pregnancy counter box, the angel counter box and the trying-to-conceive counter box. They are free and just require a quick log in to families.com.To see more of the tickers and widgets that we've featured on BBA, click here. … [Read more...]

Pregnancy Ticker from Families.com

We've already featured a few pregnancy tickers for baby blogs: the lilypie ticker, the baby-gaga ticker, the babystrology ticker and the countdown ticker widget from 3D pregnancy.Here's another option for you, the tickers from families.com. They offer a pregnancy ticker, TTC ticker, adoption ticker, breastfeeding ticker, birthday ticker and more. Access to the tickers is free, but does require a quick log in. … [Read more...]

Pregnancy Countdown Ticker

We've highlighted a few pregnancy countdown tickers in the past - the lilypie ticker, the baby-gaga ticker and the babystrology ticker. Here's another one to check out when you are expecting. It's the Pregnancy Countdown Ticker Widget from 3Dpregnancy.com.It will count down the days to your due date and show a new image of your baby's development every week. Add it to your blog's outside column so you and everyone else can keep up with your baby's development. Check it out.Click here for more baby blog tips from BBA. … [Read more...]

Blog Tip: Ctrl-Z to Undo

Blogger has come a long way, but sometimes it's still frustrating to write a "quick post". How many times do you backspace only to delete a picture that you just uploaded? Well, I have a quick tip that will save a lot of time.If you accidentally delete a picture or a phrase, just use Ctrl-Z (hold down the Ctrl key and press Z) and your last action will be restored! … [Read more...]

Blog Tip: New Blogger Slideshow

Lots of bloggers use slideshows like bubbleshare and slide as an element in their blog sidebars.Now Blogger is allowing you to show off your photos with their latest tool for your blog: the Slideshow page element. This feature lets you add a slick little slideshow of your photos from Picasa Web Albums, Flickr, Photobucket, or any site that supports Media RSS.The photos will show up in your blog’s sidebar, gently fading into one another. Your readers will be able to go forward and backward, pause, and click through to the photo’s web page. … [Read more...]

Tips for Capturing All of Baby’s Moments

If you are a baby blog addict (and you probably are since you are reading this post on BabyBlogAddict.com), I'm assuming you are a baby photo addict too. Here are 10 Tips for Capturing All of Baby's Moments:1. Take pictures frequently and a lot of them.2. Capture feelings.3. Get close.4. Try different angles.5. Use a simple background.6. Use natural light.7. Set up before bringing in baby.8. Use a fast shutter speed.9. Make sure the temperature of the room is comfortable.10. Incorporate play.I am definitely in compliance with #1, no doubt about it. I think #3 - Get close - is so important and … [Read more...]

New Blogger Feature

Did you notice that there is a new feature on blogger comments? Now you can subscribe to comments by email making it much easier to stay in the conversational loop after you’ve commented on a post somewhere. Thanks, Blogger! … [Read more...]