Category: Blogging

  • Reader Friendly Blog Layouts

    There are no hard and fast rules for putting together an attractive blog layout. A lot of it is subjective. That said, there are a few things you can do to make your layout more reader friendly. 1) Pick the right fonts. Don’t use a novelty font for your body content. Those are best used…

  • 5 Ways to Attract New Readers

    “What do I write about?” is probably tied with, “How do I get readers?” for the most frequently asked question about blogging. Here are my top five ways to find readers for your blog in. 1) Comment – Probably the most common answer to, “How do I get readers?” is, “Comment on other blogs!” It’s…

  • What Do You Look For In a Blog?

    Whenever I fall into a blogging funk I always try to think about what I look for in blogs I like to read. It’s easier to look at other people’s work and recognize what I like about it than it is to do the same with my own. When I figure out what elements I…

  • How Much Personal Is Just Right?

    Last week I wrote about different kinds of craft blog content, but a lot of craft blogs feature more than just crafty stuff and that sort of content tends to be more personal. When it comes to Untangling Knots, I don’t talk about my life very frequently. Aside from the fact that my existence is…

  • Craft Blog Content

    There is a ton of a blogging advice available on the internet, and, while some of it is craft specific, rarely does it talk about the actual content in terms that are relevant to craft blogs. That’s not very helpful when you’re trying to figure out what to write and how to put together your…