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How to start a fashion blog and make money?

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Thoroughly revised: August 2020  This is a long article discussing various aspects of fashion blogging, with concepts as well as tips and tricks - especially for beginners, who have little knowledge and experience of professional blogging. The information and tips given here are based on my own blogging knowledge and experience, and as shared by successful bloggers in fashion, beauty and lifestyle niches. This post talks about making and running a standard blog, not a blog on YouTube, Instagram or other photo/ video sharing apps. You might notice that some concepts have been partly repeated in different sections. This has been done so that you do not miss a point if you read just one or two sections. In this post, the expression 'fashion blog' is sometimes used for blogs on fashion as well as beauty and lifestyle subjects. If you are interested only in some of the topics covered, you can use the following links to jump to those topics: Fashion blogs: types and ideas. How broa...

What are the cheapest and yet the best website hosts? Compare and decide.

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---------Which web host to choose?--------- We have talked in detail about web-hosting a number of times. These posts are linked at the end of this post. Right now, let's come straight to the point: What are the best website hosts out there? [Before that, let us announce that we have no commercial dealing with any of hosts mentioned here, and no interest in promoting or denigrating a web host. The positives and negatives given against these hosts are based on our understanding about them, feedback received from users and reviews on the web. If any of these hosts finds our comments unduly critical, they are requested to write to us and we'd publish their version too if relevant.] All the web hosts covered here have many features in common. They have many shared hosting plans (as against dedicated hosting plans), which suit most website owners and bloggers as these plans give enough bandwidth, etc for their purpose. All of the m offer packages / plans in a range ...