I have had many people ask me about my blog book so I'm passing on information I got from my friend Leah (thanks Leah!!). There are two different websites that she found to be helpful with the process. But really they are 2 different choices, they don't help each other out you just have to pick one.
The first is a website called BLOG2Print their address is: http://serv.sharedbook.com/blogworld/printmyblog/index.htmlThis option is very easy, you just put in your blog address and they suck all of your text and pictures into a book. Super easy, super simple but with a catch...you can't edit or change anything when they are done. They put the book into something called a PDF file which is very generic and user (program to program) friendly. But the way it looks is the way it looks. It's nice because at the end they put all of the comments from your blog also. I did not order the book from them however because I wanted to edit some of it. I did this one at first but was not all that impressed with it so I tried option 2.
The second option is off of the website BLURB their address is:http://www.blurb.com/create/book/blogbookThis website has a free program that you download that "slurps" or pulls in all of your blog text and pictures. After I downloaded the program and it "slurped" my blog into the program then came the work on my end. It lets you pick from about a dozen templates to put your pictures & words on each page. So I went page by page and changed the template to fit each page. On a side note, the program does NOT pull in pictures from slide shows or videos (for obvious reasons). Also, when blogger puts pictures up on your blog it "dummies" them down or makes them a very low resolution. Now that is fine for viewing on the blog but will not print out very well. So I replaced every picture in the template with one off of my picture file in our computer, a lot of dragging and placing. But it was really easy after awhile I got into a rhythm. I also thought it wasn't so bad because the pictures were already on the page I knew which one to look for. So the work becomes 1-picking the template for each page, 2-replacing existing pictures and adding additional pictures and 3 editing/adding any text you want to. It is time consuming but well worth it in my opinion.
I hope this helps. Good luck everyone and have some fun!!
2 comments:
Thanks for sharing the info.! I was going to do a photobook but I think printing my blog might be a better choice. It looks like yours turned out great!
Thanks for all the info, and yeah it is alot of work but not anymore than doing the photobook. It also sounds cheaper and I get all the text and journaling for the year. I think it is well worth it too. Sounds like you have a buddy violinst on your hands.
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