All posts by opiandc
slide 2
slide 3
Holiday Fun with AnnaLane!
The holidays are finally here! Having been a good girl this year, AnnaLane is ready to open Santa’s gifts to her this Christmas. May all our beloved readers have a safe holiday season and wonderful New Year’s. May you have time to slow down and create beautiful memories with all your family, friends, and loved ones!
What’s your favorite thing about Christmas?
I love opening presents.
Has Santa been good to you over the years?
Yes, because I have been a good little girl.
What was the one thing you always wanted for Christmas but never got?
A baby brother.
If you were a tree, what kind would you be and why?
Christmas tree because I would have a lot of presents under me.
Do you prefer a white Christmas or a green one?
I have only seen a green one, so I dream of making a snowman one day.
What’s your favorite Christmas movie and song?
Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer and Jingle Bells
What’s the best thing that happened to you this year?
I was asked to be in a play at our school. I was called Seussical, Jr. I played the baby elephant bird. It was so fun.
AnnaLane is wearing Isobella & Chloe’s Peppermint Latte empire waist dress, style 9132RD, available in sizes 2T-14. Please check our retail stores for availability. Please share your Isobella & Chloe holiday pictures with us, #isobellaandchloe!
Weekly Inspiration
Applique is a fully responsive Fashion blog theme that designed with style publishers in mind! We keep things simple and elegant to make sure any fashion blogger—even those without IT background, can use it. We believe that a blog theme, should feel fluid, light, and intuitive. That’s what we are aiming to make with applique, using clean code and detailed designs in each our custom features maintaining balance between design and technology. We present to you Applique our most elegant theme yet. 5 Ways Applique will help you grow your fashion blog:
1. Add beauty right off the bat
Add beauty right off the bat! Applique is easy to install and customize. Yup, you will just need 5 minutes for the installation and Applique’s customization via WordPress Live Customizer. By using WordPress Customizer manage all aspects of your site using a live previewer, so you can see exactly how that logo, font, or layout will look before you publish. Customization made easy! Applique giving you the power to customize your blog with various elements option to create in an effortlessly timeless style, and unlimited color options. Besides, you will get exactly the same Applique’s demo content.
2. Improve your blog performance
Improve your blog speed performance and Google rank. To get these performances, first Applique is compatible with SEO (Search Engine Optimization). SEO will help your own blog increase your search engine visibility, drive more traffic to your blog and generate more leads and sales for your business (if you’d like to leverage your blog to grow your business). Blog is only getting better because it puts a focus on content. Although, SEO is only a part of blog, it offers great information and advice. Now, content is so crucial for blogging and SEO will be one not to miss.
Second, ensuring your site is Mobile-Friendly! Because Google began rolling out its “mobile-friendly” update, which makes mobile-friendliness a stronger ranking factor for mobile searches. Applique is designed to be mobile-friendly for your blog to get easy affected by Google’s mobile friendly. These days includes Mobile, it’s not an option. Today should be Mobile Friendly, of course, it has to!
Third, Applique is created not only with clean code, but also without bloated plugins/features. It will make a good performance for your blog site.
3. Monetize your blog
If you’d like to leverage your blog to grow your business, monetize your blog! Earn money from your passion is the best avenue to start affiliate marketing. This is one of the easiest and most common ways to make money blogging. Affiliate marketing is about sell or promotes someone else’s stuff and gets paid for doing it, simple. Applique provides you the Affiliate Metabox to place in post and page of your site. To using this Affiliate Metabox, you have to create your account first in ShopStyle Affiliate Program. Because of Applique is already compatible with ShopStyle. More than just easy!
Applique is also has the Multiple Advertising Space, place in header, footer, and sidebar. Most Bloggers and you can also set aside a portion of their page for marketers to buy as party of a paid advertising campaign.
4. Connect with your readers
Connect with your readers! Keep your reader engaged in your blog. Applique is integrated with social media share buttons to keep you easy to use, just simply copy & paste your account social URL. It will appear at your post, easy connects to your reader, if they want to share your post to their social media with one click. Beside, you can use WordPress or Disqus Comment system to communicate with them. Aim to make commenting easier and more interactive. Also Applique has full-width Instagram Feed places at the bottom of your blog (footer area). You can sort Instagram photo by ‘Newest to oldest’ or ‘Random’, it’s depend on what you want. Also you can set your number of photos and number of columns that will appear. It’s easy customizing! Another feature is Sticky Navigation, it will make your blog quicker to navigate. Of course, keeping readers able to find what they’re looking for quicker when they didn’t have to scroll back to top of the page. It can have a big impact on readers. The last is Sidebar & Social Media, it provides easy access to any section of the blog. It will make easier for reader to get specific information what they want to read.
5. Add more features to your blog
Add more features to your blog without coding skills needed! Applique has 4 possibilities of different types of posts: standard, audio, video, and gallery. Once you published your posts, these will appear in full-width Featured Post Slider. This feature is support for using a representative your featured image of your posts, and the default will show your latest posts. Besides, you can create your widget area at your sidebar and front-page template. And Applique has Beautiful Archive with Advanced Search, easy to search the specific post or page that you need. It comes with the drop-down category and selects date options. For the accent border, Applique has 2 styles, light & bold. You can choose your border that you want the most!