I am going to show you in this simple photoshop tutorial how to design a packaging wrap label that can be used mostly with beverage bottles.

Packaging Wrap Label Design

1- Create a new canvas with size 30 cm width x 15 cm height or any other size that fits your package.

2- Apply gradient tool to your canvas using #1b0506 & white colors as shown below.

3- Insert your product image in the middle of your canvas as follows.

4- Type your product name and description using the font Impact, color #fb0505, apply a white stroke with 2px and drop shadow to the product name, apply a 1px black stroke to the product description.

5- Create two boxes as shown below, apply 1px black stroke and gradient effect using #fa962c & white colors.

You can create one box and then make another copy.

6- Draw two lines with color #0aa837 and 3px width.

7- Insert your product logo above the green lines.

8- Write the product specifications inside the boxes to obtain the final result of your product packaging wrap label.

Blockquotes are usually used in blogs to indicate any content being quoted from other source. Using quotes is an interesting thing to include in your blog post or article as it supports the idea or the topic that you are writing about, but, how to customize your blockquote style?

Many people are wondering how to change the blockquote style for their blogs, sometimes they are satisfied by their blog theme except for the blockquote style, a thing that might drive some people to skip using the whole theme if they don’t know how to change it in their style sheet file.

This post will show you how to work with CSS to change the blockquote style of your blog theme in a very simple way.

Step 1: Create a blockquote style in your style sheet file

Copy and paste the following style in your style sheet, you can place it anywhere, the position and order of your styles won’t make a difference.

#blockquote_style1 {
width:450px;
font: 12px normal sans-serif;
text-indent: 23px;
padding: 15px;
background-color: #faebbc;
border-top: 1px solid #e1cc89;
border-bottom: 1px solid #e1cc89;
margin: 5px;
}

You can change the ID of the blockquote style to any name by editing the name after the symbol # which indicates the ID of your style, you can set the width value as well to match with the size of your content area, by reading the lines of the previous style and trying other values you will get used to the whole idea of working with CSS styles.

Step 2: Call the blockquote style in your html page

Now, you are ready to include any quotes in your blog posts or articles by just creating a block division with the ID of your style as follows:

<div id=blockquote_style1>

Then insert your quote, don’t forget to close your block division after finishing.

</div>

Here is how your blockquote will look like.

Other blockquote styles

I like this blockquote style, it’s very simple. but you can change the properties values to come up with a completely different one.

#blockquote_style2 {
width:450px;
font:12px normal sans-serif;
margin-top: 10px;
margin-bottom: 10px;
margin-left: 50px;
padding-left: 15px;
border-left: 3px solid #ccc;
}

You can also add an image to your blockquote using the background-image property and setting the value to the path of your image file, it makes it more attractive, different from other normal blockquotes and adds much to your blog design as well.

#blockquote_style3 {
width:450px;
font: 12px normal sans-serif;
text-indent: 23px;
padding-left: 70px;
padding-top: 15px;
padding-bottom: 15px;
padding-right: 10px;
background-color: #dadada;
background-image: url(images/quote.gif);
background-repeat: no-repeat;
background-position: top left;
border-top: 1px solid #ccc;
border-bottom: 1px solid #ccc;
margin: 5px;
}

Working with CSS is interesting, keep trying different values to your style using your imagination, feel free to contact me if you came up with an interesting blockquote style and want to include it in this post.

If you are preparing for your next post, you might be thinking what is the best blog post idea to write about, something that can be attractive and useful to your readers, something that can generate and bring you a lot of traffic from search engines and give you backlinks from other blogs.

This post will provide you with the most successful blog post ideas, I recommend to use all of them in your blog posts and not to focus on just one of those ideas, this will give your blog some kind of variation.

1- Reviews & Comparisons

I consider this to be the king of all blog posts. A review is actually of real benefit and readers usually look for in search engines , however its success depends on the quality of the review that you write.

There are tons of reviews that you can write about, you can write a review about an interesting book, a quality product that you tried or know something about, a quality service or you can even write a review about a blog.

Things to care about when writing a review

• Don’t write a review by just copying from another reviews, you should bring your own experience into what you write otherwise it will be of no value.
• Write about something your readers need to know.
• Reveal points of strength and weakness of the product.
• Include comparisons with other products & services.
• Include links to other resources.

2- Tutorials

Tutorials attract a large portion of readers who want to know how to do certain things and tasks. Write a good tutorial and it’s guaranteed that your post will be spread among dozens of other blogs.

3- News & Events

Feed interested readers who are always looking for what’s new and up to the stage. Try to be unique in writing about any news or events, put your touch and make it different from other routine news articles.

4- Blog Carnivals & Free Resources

Write a list of links to free resources about a certain topic, this will act as a reference for readers who are interested in such topic. It’s much similar to a blog carnival, you can check this post if you aren’t familiar with the term.

5- Interviews

Make an interview with another blogger or expert in some field, prepare a list of well chosen questions that will make your interview sounds interesting and useful as well.

6- Personal Event or Case Study

Write about a personal event or discuss a specific case from your own point of view, don’t rush into writing nonsense personal stories or events, keep remembering that the key point for the success of your post is adding something of real value.

Do you suggest any other successful blog ideas?

If you have any other blog post idea that you tried and consider as a successful one, feel free to contact me or leave a comment to include it in this post.