Tutorial: Shopping Guides and Galleries

Happy weekend my friends! I hope you are all doing well and everything is springy in your area!

Today I'd like to share a new tutorial with you. It's actually based off of an older tutorial (Creating Thumbnail Galleries).

So, you already know that many of the files on my blog are set up as thumbnail galleries...

I just love them!! There are so many benefits to thumbnail galleries...especially if you've been blogging for awhile now.

Galleries allow you to do the following:

• Showcase your older posts (they get buried quickly by newer ones, don't they?)
• Provide your readers a nice, visual navigation of your blog.
• Set up shopping guides for your customers.
• Offer pin-ready images for your visitors...and it's the image you'd like to be pinned most, since you chose it for your gallery.

And though I loved the ease of setting up my galleries with inLinkz last year, I am switching them over to a new format for a few reasons:

• My thumbnails are kind of small and that hovering Pinterest icon (which I love!) blocks them a lot.
• The smaller images look funny when pinned by readers and I'd like a larger preview to be selected for pinning.
• I have more control over the overall layout and font size with this newer format.

So what does this newer format look like? You can see it in its beginning stages on my Shop page.

And it's pretty easy to set up! All you need are some picture previews of your files, this AWESOME HTML Table Generator tool, and a little bit of code work. Don't worry, it's not the scary kind of code, I promise!

If you'd like to learn more, please click here to see the video. (I'm wicked sorry it's not embedded in this post--I am having a terrible time with technology this week, I don't know why!).

In other, unrelated news I have some new social networking icons located at the top of my blog...and right here:
I'd love for you to meet up with me on any of them if you'd like. Thanks so much for reading!! :)