Websites: Build a Business Site
Build a Business Website is ten days of tasks, tips, and advice on how to plan site content and use it to create a business website to help you meet your business goals. Each day, you’ll get a new task. We’ll ask you to define the type of site you need and create pages and site navigation. We’ll look at themes and customization, custom domains, SEO, and get you up to speed on social networks.
Details
- Length: 10 Days
- Level: Intermediate
- Topics: Websites, Content Strategy, Customization
Photography: Developing Your Eye I
This 10-day course is a fun introduction to the fundamentals of photography. Each day, we’ll give you a theme to inspire your image, along with a related shooting tip. We’ll share advice on composition, image orientation, point of view, and color. Each assignment helps you sharpen your visual eye and encourages you to post daily on your blog. You can use any camera you like: the lens on your phone, a point-and-shoot, or a dSLR.
Details
- Length: 10 Days
- Level: Beginner
- Topics: Composition, Rule of Thirds, Point of View, Color, Monochrome, Captions, Tags
Photography: Developing Your Eye II
Like Developing Your Eye I, this is a 10-day course for bloggers of all levels. Each day, we’ll give you a theme to inspire your image, along with a related photography tip. Hone your visual eye and experiment with light, motion, and surfaces; learn to observe your scene; and enhance your photos with image editing tools. You can use any camera you like: the lens on your phone, a point-and-shoot, or a dSLR. This course builds upon the assignments in Developing Your Eye I, but you do not need to take I before II.
Details
- Length: 10 Days
- Level: Beginner
- Topics: Light, Scale, Leading Lines, Motion, Cropping, Straightening, Rotation, Contrast
Writing: Finding Everyday Inspiration
Writing: Finding Everyday Inspiration is a twenty-day course that warms up your writing muscles and helps you find inspiration in the places closest to you — but where you might not think to look.
This course is designed especially for bloggers interested in personal writing, essay, and nonfiction — but everyone, from fiction writers to poets to others with niche blogs, will find new ways of brainstorming post ideas. You’ll get a new writing prompt each day to help you explore new formats, pull from your own experiences, and get familiar with online resources from publishing tools to social media.
Details
- Length: 20 Days
- Level: Beginner
- Topics: Writing, inspiration
Writing: Intro to Poetry
This course is the nudge you’ve been waiting for to sit down, write, and connect with other poetry lovers. If all you need is a bit of inspiration, use each of the ten daily writing prompts to publish a new poem on your blog. In case you’d like to learn more about poetry and experiment a bit, we’ll also offer a daily poetic form or device to explore (with guidance on how to use it).
Details
- Length: 10 Days
- Level: Beginner
- Topics: Writing, poetry, inspiration
Writing: Shaping Your Story
Writing: Shaping Your Story is a course on the art of revision: four weeks dedicated to self-editing and rewriting. Go in-depth into the elements of focusing and building a story, whether fiction or nonfiction. Each week, you experiment with our techniques and advice in your posts; what you actually publish, and how much, is entirely up to you. Ultimately, the goal is to learn to read your writing with an editor’s eye, and to improve one or multiple posts in your archives.
Details
- Length: 28 Days
- Level: Advanced
- Topics: Writing, Editing, Storytelling
The Daily Post 