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Ideal Image Sizes for Your Blog and Social Media

Ideal Image Sizes for Your Blog and Social Media

You know those inconvenient tasks that always seem to creep up on you? 

Maybe it’s an email reply you always find yourself sending or a URL you often visit but can never remember.

In instances like these, it’s beneficial to keep that information in a helpful place, create a template or bookmark it so you can easily refer back to it later and save yourself a headache. 

That’s why I wrote this blog post.

It seems I’m constantly trying to track down image sizes for social media, both for Elle & Company graphics and client design projects.

And surely you’ve found yourself hunting down image sizes for your social media accounts, too. 

So I decided to make it easier on all of us by rounding up ideal image sizes for blog posts and social media and creating an infographic. 

Feel free to bookmark this post or pin it to Pinterest for future reference!

How to Create the Quintessential Instagram Feed

How to Create the Quintessential Instagram Feed

Instagram is currently the fastest growing social media platform. It started as a simple photo-sharing app among friends, and it has since grown into a community of over 300 million brands and consumers. For business owners and bloggers, it's silly not to be engaging with followers on Instagram through likes, follows and comments; an active audience is right at your fingertips. 

Since Instagram is all about visuals, it's important to have a professional, branded feed. We all appreciate those accounts with the seamless, gorgeous images, but we may not know exactly how to get our own feed looking cohesive and one-of-a-kind. Today I'm sharing a few fundamental tips to get you started in the right direction.

A Step-By-Step Guide for Creating Infographics

A Step-By-Step Guide for Creating Infographics

Studies show that 90% of all of the information transmitted to the brain is visual. Many of us are visual learners, so it's no wonder that infographics have become increasingly popular among blogs and businesses. They create interest and engagement among an audience. they're more visually attractive than pages of text for sharing information, they're more likely to be shared, and they're also a great way to break up and vary the content on your blog.

Infographics can be used in numerous ways to display information for your blog or business, from showcasing reader survey results to displaying your creative process and everything in between. But the problem for most creative entrepreneurs and bloggers isn't why infographics can be beneficial; it's how. So today I created an infographic about infographics as a little guide for how to go about designing these helpful images on your own.

The Psychology of Color in Branding

The Psychology of Color in Branding

Design is all about first impressions, and one of the most important factors of any design is color. Color choices, pairings, and usage can affect how someone perceives a billboard, a website, or a box of cereal. Whether you realize it or not, colors evoke emotions, feelings, and memories, and designers tap into those emotions as they're choosing colors to appeal to a brand's ideal audience. There is more psychology behind color than you may have imagined, so today I'm sharing some color associations and data that you're already subconsciously aware of but may not have picked up on before.

How to Deal With Trolls, Haters and Copycats

How to Deal With Trolls, Haters and Copycats

If you're a successful blogger or business owner, you're bound to come across negative Nancies. Their hateful feedback and hurtful comments probably stem from jealousy and insecurity, but often times it's hard not to their words personally. So how do you respond to these trolls, haters, and copycats? Today's infographic should help.