Use diagrams to make pictures for your blog posts
This post from the Weekly Blogging Tips series is about a cost-effective way to make pictures for blog postings. The best blogging advice is that every post should have at least one picture: is a stunning professional-looking shot which perfectly illustrates the point you are making perfectly. This is a great idea if you're a professional photographer and have all time in the world, or if you can afford to purchase images which are custom made for your blog. But most of us just aren't in that league. Sometimes, you can use a search tool to find a re-usable photograph that you can put into your posts. (Remember to download your own copy and put it into a Google picture host, to make sure that it's accepted as the thumbnail picture for the post.) But another option is to use a diagram - like this . The picture above is a diagram that I used in a blog-post to emphasise that budgeting for an event is on-going through the planning phase, not a one-time job I spent ...