I'm doing what I said I would never do and that's start a blog specifically for my jewelry business. Why? Because I started blogging personally last fall as Purple Mountain Girl and found that I like blogging. It's another little place that I get to feel like I CONTROL THE WORLD! Even though, probably, no one is listening...
I'm also converting my website over to this blog because, basically, it's Free~ I've learned so much from blogging that I became sure there was a way to have an e-commerce site using a blog; and if you have access to Google, you have all the knowledge in the world right in your hand!
Here are some things I learned to create this site:
1-Create a static home page.
This was important to me because I don't want visitors to have to slog through my ramblings to get to the good stuff (ie, my jewelry.) I found this tutorial: http://www.bloggertipspro.com/2012/06/creating-blogger-static-home-page.html# and my blog now has a static landing page as well as maintaining a place for me share my trivial scribblings!
2-Getting rid of the blogger bar at the top. Another VIP - very important project! Your blog cum website looks much more professional and doesn't announce to the world that, "I'm too cheap to buy yearly website hosting!" I found help here: http://blogger-hints-and-tips.blogspot.com/2012/03/removing-navbar-from-your-blog.html Very easy to do!
3-Centering the Blog Description. I don't know WHY this is not a standard format in blogger or whatever but it bugs the buhjeepers out of me and has since I started blogging! OCD much? Anyway, another very easy fix that I found here: http://www.southernspeakers.net/2010/12/repositioning-blogger-title-and.html
I will leave it at that for now, don't even get me started on all the cool gadgets out there! A Heartfelt Thanks to all the bloggers that have posted and shared their knowledge with us html-challenged folks!