The ULTIMATE resource for bloggers

My name’s Bree. And I like to write lists. It started when I was eight years’ old. I had a Dinky Diary. Remember those? (Or maybe I’m seriously showing my age?!) They were small, rectangular, hard-covered, spiral-bound diaries with skinny metal-cased pens that’d last two sentences if you were lucky. In it were my deepest darkest secrets lists. I wrote lists on everything. Who my friends were. Who my friends weren’t (ha!). Which pen pals I’d written to. Which pen pals were yet to reply (hey, Emma from Scotland: I’m still waiting!). And the outfits I was going to copy from DJ Tanner on Full House (scrunched boots, with hot pink socks and a vest, anyone?). Fast forward quite a few years and I’m still writing lists! But this time, it’s not in a Dinky Diary, and it’s not about the wardrobes of sitcom stars. It’s about blogging. Behold, my biggest list to date: Bloggers’ Domain: The A-Z Of Blog Tools & Resources! So what is Bloggers’ Domain? A HUGE (and hopefully ridiculously helpful!) site for bloggers. Check it out and you’ll see what I mean! The short version of its creation is that I actually started working on it about two-and-a-half years ago spending 20 minutes on it here, and 20 minutes on it there, adding to it whenerver I could. It was fuelled not only by my love of lists, but because I found myself answering the same recommendation-type questions to bloggers and website owners over and over again. “Here’s a list of WordPress themes you could try…” and “Here are some WordPress hosting options…“. Repeating the info became rather monotinous, and I figured I may as well turn my answers into a website. So I did. The soft launch was about six months ago but, due to various reasons, it promptly got swept to the side to hang out by itself in cyber space. It’s not intended to be the kind of website you visit every day. Rather, it’s the site you bookmark and check out when you find yourself asking… “How do I add a poll to my blog?” or, “I wonder if there’s a blog conference coming up I could attend…“. The whole site is actually very low-maitenance (thank goodness!) and will grow over time with the help from blogging friends and family. My plan is to hopefully (!) have the blog section written by guest-posters. So if you’re also a list-making addict who likes to write about blogging, follow Bloggers’ Domain on Twitter or Facebook and I’ll keep you posted on opportunities. I’m totally open to feedback on the site, so feel free to let me know your thoughts! And of course, if you think it’s the most spectacular thing you’ve ever seen (hopefully this will be the opinion of someone other than my mother!) then I’d be eternally grateful for you helping me spread the word (check out the sharing buttons on the home page), and will send you good-blogging Karma from now until the end of time. It’s a promise. What’s your feedback on Bloggers’ Domain? And… what did you write in your Dinky Diary?!