Sue Jenkins - Tumblr For Dummies

Tumblr For Dummies, Portable Edition

by Sue Jenkins

Tumblr For Dummies, Portable Edition

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About the Author

Sue Jenkins is a web and graphic designer, an award-winning software instructor, Adobe Certified Instructor/Adobe Certified Expert, fine art photographer, and founder of Luckychair.com . She is the author of several For Dummies instructional books on web design, Dreamweaver, Illustrator, and Photoshop, including Web Design All-in-One For Dummies (Wiley) and Smashing Photoshop CS5: 100 Professional Techniques (Wiley/SmashingMagazine). In addition, Sue is the software instructor in seven training programs from ClassOnDemand.com and Lynda.com , a part-time instructor at Noble Desktop in New York City, and an Assistant Professor of graphic design at Marywood University in northeastern PA. For questions, tips, and inspiration, follow her on Facebook, Tumblr, and Twitter.

Dedication

To Kyle, 8, for loving me all the way through, and for being the best son in the whole wide world. (Kyles words, which express my feelings perfectly.)

Authors Acknowledgments

My first thank you is to all the people at Tumblr for creating such a cool micro-blogging platform thats not only free, but also super fun to use. Big giant thank yous go second to my awesome agent, Matt Wagner, who continues to surprise me with sweet projects like this book, which was such a blast to write. To acquisitions editor, Amy Fandrei, I thank for her help with getting the project off the ground and gently but firmly pushing things along. Praise also goes to my delightful project editor, Kim Darosett, who has an amazing ability to look at the big picture and move all the pieces around until they fit together beautifully. Special thanks also go to Barry Childs-Helton, my copy editor, and James Russell, my technical editor, for their excellent comments and suggestions. Generous thanks also go to my production coordinator, Kristie Rees, for all her hard work, and to all the other folks at Wiley who were a part of this project for their fantastic effort at making this book look great. This is goofy, but Id also like to thank Bravo and Lifetime for having such bizarre and wildly entertaining reality TV shows like Project Runway and Big Rich Texas that help me unwind after a long day of writing. Lastly, thanks to Kyle and Phil. You make me smile.

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